Inner frame weekend

Well i'm back after a hugely productive weekend. I had my friend's leaving BYO on Saturday night so that was a really good time and he got pretty toasted which was a laugh in the end. Saturday morning me and the Mrs did some of our wedding DIY so that was quite cool and she got some carpentry skills at the same time. But on the Gundam front well I was really enjoying this Zaku 2.0 build and I was about halfway through the inner frame of the kit. to my surprise this level of detail is off the charts. I really don't want to cover it up just because of the mechanical detailing Bandai has put into this.

By Sunday night I was grasping for time to get at least the inner frame completed with a few little extra bits. But in the end I have just a couple more things to do.
I also went through and painted the pistons/actuators in a silver Gundam marker i do like it because the silver shows up quite well, then I went over that in a black wash just to get in any crevices. But the black wash dulled the silver down abit although it gave the silver a kind of greasy look so I was quite happy about that. I I want to get a gold marker for the White Ogre so that I can do silver and gold pistons I think that will look quite cool.

The detailing of the foot is really great and I love how the foot pistons are visible when the toe part bends. there are a lot of small pieces in the foot but it holds quite sturdy.

I have only had a small play with the flexibility and articulation of the frame so not a lot playtime with this to see what posses I can get it into but I have heard it can be put in most posses that the human body can do which is pretty damn good.

I also went tor the alternate commander fin on top of the head it just looks the best in my opinion I am considering modifying in the alternate "bald" head armour to something like a Roman crest just because I quite like mash ups or where a pilot has customized their machine a lot to suit their personal flair. 

Oh and a final note don't follow the instructions when it says to cut the ball looking part from the nose pipe sections. I didn't the first one and just didn't sit in securely in snout intake. I will put up a few pictures up in my next post.

Until next time :)