1/48 Zaku II - Part 8

Only these small sections to go now.

The side skirt armour was primed & painted with the lighter UK Azure Blue to match the front & rear armour.

1/48 Zaku 2 skirt armour primed

 The hands for the Zaku 2 come in two designs to use with or without the rifle.  At this stage, I had not decided which to have, so cleaned up & primed all the parts for the hand & the protective armour.

1/48 Zaku 2 hands primed in grey

Completed hand ready for top coats

The hand armour were painted in the darker blue to blend with the arm armour & the actual fingers sprayed with Gun Metal.

The rifle comes in various sections, so these were glued& sanded, but not put together at this stage.   To give some subtle shading effects for the rifle instead of doing all the priming in Gloss Black I did the handle, magazine & targeting sight in grey.

Primed in various colours to give different effects when metal coats added

 The handle, magazine & targeting sight were sprayed with Exhaust Manifold & the body & barrel in Gun Metal Grey.

Gradients of metallic shade now show through

 The lens for the sight was given some Ammo Of Mig clear Orange on the inside & when dry pushed into place.

Clear Orange painted inside sight lens

The gun now just fits together & the 2-tone shading now comes into its own.

The 2 parts for the right hand clip over the trigger & grip, then the back armour clip on the outside. The rifle is now ready to go on the Zaku 2.

1/48 Zaku 2 hand fixed to rifle handle

All that is now left to do is to push the pre made arms, legs & head onto the torso & connect up the gun & there you have it, one vary large & blue Zaku II.

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