New Year – New Project: Psycho Zaku
Wooohooo!!! Finally I have it – oob build during Christmas 2018 – MS-06R Zaku II High Mobility type PSYCHO ZAKU,…
Vallejo Mecha White Primer!
Again, Vallejo Mecha will be my paints for PsychoZaku. Zaku stripped down – I will not disassemble inner frame, I…
Lets paint!
Vallejo Mecha again 🙂 Red with a bit of Black – just to brake the color. I love subtle shading…
The Eye of Psycho
Small details – I love small details! Added photo etched ring to an eye – looks perfect!
Initial assemble
24h curing time is enough for assembling parts together. A bit of superglue and all metal parts are in place…
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…
Details – more details
Zaku returned to my workshop for more photo-etched/metal details application.
Backpack painted
Backpack parts were black primed (Vallejo Mecha of course… – I still love those). And base colors were applied –…
Backpack decals and detailing
Decals went very well – based on manual, MicroSol and Bandai decals provides great combo for easy going application. I’m…
Hands upgrade
In my eyes, weakest part of PsychoZaku MG kit are hands – palms in fact… Decided to replace them with…
Technical arms
Small things matters – technical arms are fine mechanical parts of PsychoZaku design – fully articulated and adjustable – of…
Thrusters – a lot of rocket thrusters!!!
Wow – Psycho Zaku is on top in many topics – one of is number of thrusters – MS itself,…
Coming soon!
It looks like all parts are in place! This piece is so impressive – I already love it!
Time for matte varnish!
For top coat I used VallejoMecha Matt Varnish – Long story short: model was disassembled… and matte varnish applied 🙂
A bit of handpainting here and there…
Slowely but fairly – handpainted details to depict signs of use of mobile suit – at this stage its hard…
Beam Bazooka finished!
To get more of huge PsychoZaku’s bazooka – I decided to add few more details. Sensor device got new optics…
Some final touches…
Weathering and details – I love this part – its time consuming but its very satysfying as those small things…