{"id":362,"date":"2009-02-28T04:06:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T09:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=362"},"modified":"2011-04-15T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:08:12","slug":"more-old-zaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"More Old Zaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My quest continues to execute a quality build and the best &#8220;I take giant cartoon robots too seriously&#8221; paintjob on this, the very first Zaku kit&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>(edit)<\/strong>: <em>Actually I don&#8217;t know for sure when the various early Gundam kits were released &#8211; I had thought the 1:100 Zaku came before the 1:144&#8230;  but according to <a href=\"http:\/\/iyashiguma.hp.infoseek.co.jp\/kyuukit-gundam.htm\">this<\/a>, the 1:144 Zaku came out before the 1:100 version.  Makes sense, I guess&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At this point I&#8217;m most of the way through the basic painting stage. All the basic colors are on, the only coloring left to do is weathering. Since I was going for &#8220;Real Type&#8221; with this build the plan was to do a paint chipping effect. I couldn&#8217;t find the hairspray I needed, however, so I went for a salt-based effect instead. This was my first try at that and I think it could have gone better. Also, I didn&#8217;t want the Zaku to be all rusted up, and nor did I want bare metal showing all over&#8230;  So for this build what shows through in the &#8220;paint chipped&#8221; areas is another coat of green. I guess the Zeons painted the Zaku in something along the lines of the classic color scheme, then decided to go for a more low-visibility look and painted over, but it got all chipped up somehow.  &lt;shrug&gt; I&#8217;m not entirely happy with how the whole thing went down, for a dozen different reasons &#8211; but I&#8217;ve decided to go with it instead of repainting the parts. Hopefully it&#8217;ll look a bit more natural when I&#8217;ve got the markings on.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_texture_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I applied a cast-metal type of texture using thinned Tamiya putty.\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_texture_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_texture_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I also did a line of bulletholes. This kind of battle damage isn't something I frequently incorporate in my kits.\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_texture_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_primer_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"It always takes my projects a long time to get to the priming\/painting stage, so when I finally get this far it feels good. But, damnit, turns out I still had some seamlines on the power cable parts...\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_primer_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_paint_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I started with two tones of green for shading\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_paint_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_paint_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Priming the parts feels good - but only when the Zaku gets its first coat of a nice, deep green does it truly start to feel right.\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_paint_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_paint_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The greens here, however, are just the undercoat for paint chipping.\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_paint_3_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_chipping_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I used salt to do a paint chipping effect on many of the parts. I'm not entirely happy with the result but I've decided to roll with it.\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090228_chipping_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and would you believe it?  When I took the model off the painting stand so I could assemble it and get a feel for how the paint chipping looks &#8211; I broke the damn hip peg! The hip pegs on this kit are jointed &#8211; each hip has a hip peg, which itself sits on a rod that acts as an axis, so the leg gets a little lateral movement. But as you can imagine a structure like that isn&#8217;t going to be especially rugged&#8230; When I was assembling this thing I debated whether to rejoint the hips with option parts &#8211; I decided against it &#8217;cause I didn&#8217;t want to go overboard with extra work on this project&#8230;  But as it turns out, I probably would have come out ahead if I&#8217;d just done the joint mod back then, &#8217;cause my options for repairing the peg are quire limited. My plan right now is to not fix it &#8211; just carefully stick the leg in there on what&#8217;s left of the peg, and rely on the immobility of the leg to keep the hip peg from coming off its axis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This build is for the MMC Old Kits Contest &#8211; at this point there&#8217;s one day left for the original deadline, in which time I&#8217;d need to apply decals, flatcoat, and various additional weathering steps to get the finished model I&#8217;m after. I think I could still hit the original deadline &#8211; and I&#8217;d like to, so I can move on to other things &#8211; but since the deadline has been extended I may take my time a bit more, make sure I do things right. I guess I&#8217;ll start with the decals tomorrow and see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My quest continues to execute a quality build and the best &#8220;I take giant cartoon robots too seriously&#8221; paintjob on this, the very first Zaku kit&#8230; (edit): Actually I don&#8217;t know for sure when the various early Gundam kits were released &#8211; I had thought the 1:100 Zaku came before the 1:144&#8230; but according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}