Time for matte varnish!
For top coat I used VallejoMecha Matt Varnish – Long story short: model was disassembled… and matte varnish applied 🙂
Work in progress posts
Thrusters – a lot of rocket thrusters!!!
Wow – Psycho Zaku is on top in many topics – one of is number of thrusters – MS itself, backpack and huge rockets set have those vactor thrusters in many places – real high mobility. This is how I see really maneuverable space ship! Painting went fine – Vallejo Mecha Light Gunmetal with Citadel…
Technical arms
Small things matters – technical arms are fine mechanical parts of PsychoZaku design – fully articulated and adjustable – of course I couldn’t move forward without some extra painting and detailing 🙂 Now, those looks exactly as I like.
Hands upgrade
In my eyes, weakest part of PsychoZaku MG kit are hands – palms in fact… Decided to replace them with Bandai MS Hands02 (Zeon) 1/100. Now it looks waaay better – below photo shows kit hands (left side) vs upgraded. New palms are just great! Zaku with new palms got a lot more expression! A…
Backpack decals and detailing
Decals went very well – based on manual, MicroSol and Bandai decals provides great combo for easy going application. I’m fan of details here and there – sometimes its hard to spot those on finished models – I like it this way – details should be discovered and provides some type of story to the…
Backpack painted
Backpack parts were black primed (Vallejo Mecha of course… – I still love those). And base colors were applied – no issues – Mecha color palette. I found quite a problem with handling big Beam Bazooka – weapon is heavy and Zaku isn’t able to hold it properly in hand. I found a solution –…
Guns :)
Psycho Zaku is all about big guns! Vallejo Mecha black primer applied: Painted weapons with some details added. New toys and Zaku is happy 🙂
Details – more details
Zaku returned to my workshop for more photo-etched/metal details application.
Its time to start huge backpack construction
OOB assembly went fine, personally I hate multiplication of same parts and constructing them – for sure I can’t work on production line… In two evenings I was able to assembly all parts for armaments of any kind – bazookas, machine guns and other panzerfaust-like devices and HUGE rocket booster connected to nice backpack with…