What do you do when Bandai announces the Rey’s Blaze Zaku and you’ve got the Green one lying around? Give ya boy Dearka some love of course!
This is my first time building the same particular MG three times. The Zaku itself is a very simple build and busting the box open to see such few parts was enough to get me motivated to build it right away. The Blaze also is the least bullshit out of all the 3 variants available, the pack does not have any seams with the major trade-off being that there are many details which need to be painted/masked.
Since Rey’s and Deakka’s colour scheme have the same quirk of having the inside of the white chest vents being coloured this was a good exercise for me. The vent was first painted yellow, then the inside was masked off and then white painted over.
On a related note, if you’re after Rey’s White version, please consider getting it from The Hangar Bay, you can use code SAINTISM06 to save 6%!
Update: Again, right after I took pictures I felt the need to tinker with the kit, I ended up painting the pins on the grenades as well as the red on the leg vent. The vent itself was a major headache since I had to drill a hole in the back of the part in order to push it out and I had a major blunder when I drilled just a bit too far. Oops 🙁
Original:
Painting
Black (chest, feet) – Mr Color GX Ueno Black base coat. White added for highlights
Main body dark grey – Mr Color Phantom Grey + bit of black base coat, followed by Phantom Grey + bit of white for highlights
Armor grey – Mr Color Zeon MS Grey + bit of black base coat, followed by Zeon MS Grey + bit of white for highlight
Red – White primer, Mr Color GX Harmann Red base coat. Bit of yellow and white added for highlight, then Harmann Red + bit of green for postshading the edges.
Orange – Orange base coat, starter white technique, followed by mist of Orange-Yellow (80%) + Orange (20%).
White – Mr Color 306 Grey FS base coat, followed by Mr Color GX Cool White
Blaze Wizard Dark Grey – Mr Color Phantom Grey + bit of purple base coat. White added for highlights
Blaze Wizard Light Grey – Unfortunately I forgot the exact recipe for this one, but it’s a light purplish grey. Possibly Neutral Grey + purple.
Beautiful work, mate.
Nice highlight/shades, colour mixes for the orange and red are perfect.
So easy for a dark mech to lose all detail, but you’ve avoided that entirely.
is there a youtube video of the process of doing this