More Zaku outer armour

I couldn't decide whether to get back into my Zaku or my reZEL so I choose Zaku. I started on some of the other parts that I hadn't got around to doing like the rest of the armour and the shoulder shield. Also a bit of planning on what parts I am going to top coat at the end of it. 

I am still astounded by this kit just the level of details on the inner frame and the the armour looks good but its nice that Bandai kind of left the surface of the armour kind of blank it just give me a clean slate to put the panel lines and decals that i want to do.

I am really loving the look of it with the shotgun, mostly because I have never really been a fan of the Zaku machine gun. But I might end up taking the stock off or at least give the option of having either.

I quite like either way to be honest it looks tactical with the stock on but also looks like it is more Zeon without the stock.

My plan was originally to modify an MG Zaku F2 (which is on back-order at the moment) as sort of a Earth Zeon Remnants unit with a different weapons load out and some modifications to a few parts of the body but I'm thinking I could flag the F2 and just do some of those same modifications to this Zaku 2.0 instead.

I was looking at maybe keeping the shotgun and adding a 2 tube arm mounted rocket launcher from the Kotobukiya MSG machine gun/missile launcher set. Similar to the big guns on the Zaku Cannon. And possibly changing a few parts like the leg power pipes to maybe a mesh type of material to sort of simulate that the machine had been modified over the years to accommodate for urban warfare and weight reduction.

Any way I will continue on getting these armour parts built in the mean time just to finish the build phase off.