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Q/A & Help Group 9 years ago So, I got an idea for my very first kit bash. HGUC Char’s Zaku and the HGBF Zaku Amazing. Gonna try to make a true Char’s Zaku II with a better paint job than the HGUC. Any Tips for a beginner?
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Practice your brush strokes if you’re gonna paint, or learn how to use a spray can well and dont forget to topcoat it in gloss for shine in matte/flat for how you’d like the final result to look.
But how are you gonna kit bash the 2 exactly, the old hguc really just needs a better head, and with a high mobility zaku 2 or just some of its parts you can mod the zaku amazing into a chars zaku 2 high mobility type (rrobbert184 on youtube done this and he doesn’t do anything extreme so if you want could try this idea instead, link here for details http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IyKMSQYXRs&list=TLjn0VtHmqyhyPQ3kg1iF2FzTUTA3JNKi3)
Yeah, i got the idea from rrobbert184’s video, but i want try and add something different. Either try to make a non high mobility char’s zaku with the parts. (so basically, zaku amazing’s head on char’s zaku body, with the zaku amazing’s paint job.) or a regular high mobility zaku( just a grunt). For the last one, all i would need is shin matsunaga’s zaku and different paint and wa-la. Not really a kitbash, but i like the idea.
Sorry for my delay and…lack of any others, i do advise looking at dalong.net and check out the runner previews and manual scans, that might give more insight to what can and can’t be done, I had a look just now, shin matsunaga’s zaku and johnny ridden’s zaku both come with a non commander head top which you could use as a grunt (although its more common for the black tri stars version to be used since the box kept showing it off)…
For char’s zaku with a better head I thought about the idea of just swapping head tops but they aren’t compatible due to the way they are constructed, try looking at all the different zaku’s, you may find something (i was gonna say the zaku f2 but the chest is far different…).
There is also the option of the real grade but that kills your attempts at modding, I do hope your find your answer (im trying to work out a mode for garma zabi’s zaku that doesn’t involve drilling the head of another zaku 2 :S)