Gundam: Zaku

A friend turned up on Saturday bearing several boxes of intrigue. 

Bandai have decided to go after the 28mm market with a range of smaller sculpts of their larger models with the Gundam Assemble range. They're not modular and clip together in a straightforward fashion, which is welcome, and the mold lines are straightforward to remove.

Have I mentioned I'm not a big Gundam fan? But the Zaku is a fun looking robot, I just think they're absurdly large as a painting project, so having them in smaller forms is quite welcome.

This is a very quick and simple paintjob. That's Slimer Green as a base with Ice Yellow highlight, and think it's a Dark Sea Blue equivalent for the shading. Then a Payne's Grey pin wash for panel lining and bit of extra shading here and there.

The metallic areas were done as NMM with a base of Tenebrous Grey, then Greenish White for mixing and final highlights. That's it really. I think in total this was under two hours, and more really me playing with using the airbrush in my painting workflow rather than a serious attempt to make something super pretty.

 

 

If you made it all the way down here ... I'm painting a second one too, but won't be sticking with the traditional clean scheme for that robot. That'll be next week's fun reveal!