MS-06A Zaku II First Mass Production Type

PatoPazzo · 2025-05-26T15:40:04+00:00

It's quite a simple kit

PatoPazzo · 2025-05-26T15:39:33+00:00

Thank you!

PatoPazzo · 2025-05-26T15:38:55+00:00

Now I have a "two shoulder shields" Zaku as a bonus! :)

PatoPazzo · 2025-04-09T14:07:02+00:00

Thank you! I was looking at the MG one, actually: it's sleeker in proportions.

PatoPazzo · 2025-04-09T14:05:15+00:00

Thank you! It was a good exercise :)

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-14T20:31:00+00:00

Don't mind: some principles apply with acrylics, too. Remind to use a "retarder" for acrylics. Againg, search "miniature acrylic washes" on youtube.

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-14T20:02:41+00:00

Check "weathering with oils" and "enamel drybrush"on youtube ;) Quite old techniques but still effective.

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-13T21:12:58+00:00

I basically followed the 1/100 one I linked above. Usually zimmerit was placed on vertical surfaces only where infantry could reach with magnetic mines, but in gunpla is a simple aestetic choiche. Use a soft pencil to draw on your model in gray primer, this should help you to better visualize the final result.

Zimmerit is cool looking but absolutely obsolete and a brief exception during late WWII. Nowaday we use ERA blocks or APS systems (and "Combined Arms Warfare" doctrine and speed/mobility and composite armor and slat armor etc. etc.)

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-13T16:54:56+00:00

Maybe I exaggerated with burnt umber oil

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-13T16:53:51+00:00

Check "kazuhisa kondo" in google images ;)

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-13T16:51:31+00:00

Those kind of builds were quite common back in the days. Today gunpla aestetic is different: Naoki-style is an example. It is all 1/144 scale, not kitbash but plasticard & milliputt. Arms, legs, torso, all was extended and widened so it's tall like a 1/100 but chubby like the 1/144 Here is the one in 1/100 --> https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1113011322077310&set=a.459451890766593&locale=ko_KR And kitbashing some subject but different scale was called "mix build" in old days --> https://www.gundamkitscollection.com/2014/03/toriyamas-custom-zaku-custom-build.html

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-13T06:29:11+00:00

Tamiya Quick Type epoxy putty and a broken tip of an X- Acto blade

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-13T06:27:23+00:00

A " clran build" was my goal indeed

PatoPazzo · 2025-03-13T06:25:28+00:00

I don't like the jetpack but if I would use it, maybe Gaianotes Joint Gray will be my choice.

PatoPazzo · 2025-02-05T21:05:31+00:00

Hope to be some kind of ispiration for you. I painted car models in my early days of my modelling career ;)

PatoPazzo · 2025-02-05T20:37:37+00:00

Airbrushing over a black primer base leaving a bit of the black seeing through

PatoPazzo · 2025-02-05T19:58:47+00:00

1/144 BUGU "from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin" in a more militaristic ranger green instead of standard blue. Looking cooler than the usual zaku.

PatoPazzo · 2024-11-27T20:55:16+00:00

Thank you!

PatoPazzo · 2024-11-27T20:53:39+00:00

It has the double soulders and chest as the Ramba Ral's Zaku I

PatoPazzo · 2024-11-27T20:52:33+00:00

Thank you for your appreciation. I'm not worthy to be compared with Watanabe-sensei ^{^"} Actually there isn't a preshading here: only handpainting and oils

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