2nd update on 1/100 Char's Zaku II

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Just some small progress and as the process going southward, things are getting more complicated. The objective of having a higher mobility legs and waist requires a flexible lower torso modification and things are pretty not a good sight for old kits like this hopefully can pull this off nicely... 







I figured, it would be best to do the lower torso first before doing the waist. Here the lower torso looks like . Hacked up into smaller pieces...then it is a case of " how to put humpty dumpty together again"



Took me an hour or so the SB the lower torso, and its definately need more refinement which leads to better detail thus the reaction will probably leads to the rest of the body detailing after I done the waist. 

That would be a problem another day in the furure. 



To make sure everything is a proportion, I usually will try to assemble thekit so see and jugde the overall outcome before going into the next mod.



For the moment, its still can stand upright...which is a blessing..After taken this pic, camera battery is exhausted and I forgot to bring the charger, lolz...so for those who following this thread, might not get further updates for a few days until I get my charger from my house soon.

Have nice weekend and see you guys soon!!!!

1st updates on 1/100 Char's Zaku II

Was a bit slow figuring out a way to have the body modification, some more got distracted watching X-Men: first class while doing Gunpla. 

Taken out the body part, main objective as stated in previous post, I was planning a movable waist and lower torso, thus a 3 parts modification, the chest,waist and lower torso groin part.

The all in one body portion.chest,waist and groin part connected in 2 parts. worst old kits doesn't have male/female connector like Bandai kits today. While going thru the detail of the part, found out that this kit was in fact made in 1982 and not 1979...my bad for the misinterpretation in previous post

First, I cut out the chest part using drilling method and hacking it with modelling saw, Hasegawa's saw is always my preferences as it has inverted teeth like saw making the process fast and accurate.

Liposuction process 1 reduce T

The outstretched chest which look pretty bulking and funny for ZakuII, which knock-out most of the feddies warship.

using a 3 way connecter and some platube made a simple connection for the waist and the head part.
The exposed side are covered up with pla-plate and the are connecter are replaced with a spare parts from my stash. Notice the pla tube in the middle of the chest ? its connected to the ball joint inside, but it will be covered when I install the cockpit hatch.

Basically, the chest is 70-80% done and planing to do some small detailing, so the next phase will be the waist in the next installment. till then....Have a nice day 

WIP 1/100 Char's used Zaku II

Its been a long long time I haven't post any WIP due to heavy workload schedule and now currently being transfered to a "very far away place" and just had my hostel room refurbished to my workplace yesterday nite (of course bring all my modelling stuff along hehehe) . 

As most of my friends here knows, I just find old retro kits interesting, instead of some newer version kits, So I decided to do a very old kit from the Gundam 1979 series, Char's Red Comet Zaku II., just wanna see what can I make out of this very simplicity kit. Well,here is the snapfitted kit which took me less than 1 hour fitting

The basic plan is to add some panel lines, applying a posable waist and getting it a "slimming program"(neo style)..

Starting from the head, in order to enable the mono eye to be able to move from side to side, I have to enlarge the insertion part of the part of the Zaku helm part. Draw the desired portion with marker 

then proceed with drilling holes

and smooth with electric router.

Next, I just want the head to have a slimmer outlook so with limited resources, I used a masking tape as a guide to sawing of 1 mm on both pat of the head part( fyi this Zaku is a 2 piece combined with a pretty seamline in the middle)

Now to have a more realistic mono eye, I decided to use a metal part and will place a reflection holographic aurora after its done, drilling the hole according to the metal part with extreme care and viola you have a metal part mono eye!!! 

In order to have the mono eye move sideward, I used a polycap and used pla plate to make a holder

lastly, snap the Zaku helm piece together and this is what you got...
and before going to sleep (already 430am) had a crazy thought of making theopening of the mono eye a bit narrower and more menacing, cemented a 1 mm pla plated and then calling it a night...actual morning lol..