{"id":387,"date":"2009-03-28T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=387"},"modified":"2010-09-13T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T16:40:27","slug":"the-real-robot-nearly-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"The Real Robot &#8211; nearly complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I missed the MMC deadline I&#8217;ve been working on the Zaku when I could &#8211; at this point the decal work is done, and I&#8217;ve given it one coat of flat and an overall dark brown wash.  I still need to handle a few bits of detail painting (like the bullet-holes I added to the shield and torso) and I&#8217;d like to go a bit farther with the weathering effects &#8211; possibly add caked mud to the feet and ankles, among other things, but overall it&#8217;s very nearly done.  I am starting to consolidate assemblies to reduce the number of parts &#8211; things like the knee armor, now attached to the knee, the backpack, now attached to the back, and the snout power cables now attached to the snout&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the photos the Zaku is mostly assembled &#8211; it&#8217;s really too soon for that still, but I wanted to take some pictures of how the thing will look when it&#8217;s done.<br \/>\n<a href=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_3_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_4_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_5_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_6.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"model-data\/1_100_Old_Zaku\/old_zaku_090328_6_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I missed the MMC deadline I&#8217;ve been working on the Zaku when I could &#8211; at this point the decal work is done, and I&#8217;ve given it one coat of flat and an overall dark brown wash. I still need to handle a few bits of detail painting (like the bullet-holes I added 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\/387"}],"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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}