Preshading

As my Kshatriya will be painted in many shades of military green, I did quite heavy preshade this time with Tamiya LP Black. Inner parts were covered by Tamiya LP Dark Iron – I love this color – picture will not show it – but it looks generally like old iron part 🙂

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LEDs in resin kit? Why not!

The project is getting more and more complicated… I was thinking over night about adding some light to the model…I tried with one 5mm LED and drilled in one of the thrusters – damn… now I need to drill all 12…. Don’t have any idea how to and where I will hide cabling and etc.…

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What’s cooking doc?

Allright – the time has come to deal with the biggest challange so far. Hot and really (almost boiling) hot water was used to heat up big resin parts of the binders and then I was able to gently adjust all bends and misalignments. Then I did same for smaller armor parts – now I’m…

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Foot pegs…

The model is designed with really long peg joints that secures each foot – I was always wondering when looking at finished models about ankles – looks quite awkward and hmmm empty… so I decided to shorten the pegs and limit free space around ankles. After some test fit I found proper lenght. To make…

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Legs and magnets

The details within legs internal structure are just bagging for show. I started to think how to fix leg armor and make it removable… I decided to go with some magnets that will keep armor in place. This is it! Additionally, I added hard plastic rods for legs hinges – in fact I believe that…

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Some final touches…

Weathering and details – I love this part – its time consuming but its very satysfying as those small things brings ”reality„ And a bit of storytelling into miniature. Beside details – and bit of wear on giant rocket, I added some more photoetched parts to technical arms. Now my PsychoZaku looks way better –…

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