Gundamaniac

I know its been ages since I built a gundam, but since I had some time to spare during the monday holiday, I decided to take out the rusty ol’ gunpla clippers and work on the Char Aznable Zaku II.  At first I plan to build the Zaku II using the a sand-down-no-paint method. but as it turned out, I ended up using the lazy-no-sand-nor-paint-just-build method instead. lol! And though I don’t plan on painting this particular gunpla anymore (will probably just do the panel lines if I feel like it). I’m thinking that I should probably paint the next kit I’ll be building.

which is not to say that feel like the MG Zaku II isn’t worth the effort, once done the MG Zaku II is definitely a great looking kit (even without painting). but what I especially liked about it was the individual fingers. although I did end up doing a bit of cutting between the last three fingers. the hands of the MG kit would still look good without that little bit of modding.

I got my hands on this Char action base a while back, even before I had a MS-06S Zaku II kit.

needless to say, the stand is a prerequisite to have your Zaku look cool and do some aerial pose. ^^

The MS-06S Zaku II is said to have a more powerful reactor and is reserved to higher ranking officers of the Principality of Zeon Army. It can be distinguished from a regular zaku by its antenna and more obviously by its red color. a fact that I found a bit strange, it’s like asking your officers to wear a bullseye while prancing around the battlefield. but I guess it isn’t half as bad as the Concert Zaku Warrior going off into battle. 

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