{"id":1559,"date":"2003-01-01T10:56:32","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T18:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2009-02-11T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T20:31:36","slug":"completed-%c2%bb-zaku-f2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/completed-%c2%bb-zaku-f2\/","title":{"rendered":"Completed \u00c2\u00bb Zaku F2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fichtenfoo-zakuf2-04\"<\/p>\n

About the Build \u00c2\u00bb<\/p>\n

I recieved this kit for Christmas of 2002. I liked the desert colors, but I thought it needed a lottle more “oompf” so I went to work camoflauging it. This was not as easy as I assumed it’d be. I used photoshop to create my camo pattern based on a photo I scanned from the box. It was easy and it looked great. Unfortunatly, my first attempt started to look like what I like to call “chocolate swirl zaku”.<\/p>\n

What I did to get this look was this:<\/p>\n

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  1. spray all the parts a light tan color<\/li>\n
  2. cut out a tiger stripe shape from pieces of masking tape and apply them.<\/li>\n
  3. spray a brown color (bad choice of colors on my part)<\/li>\n
  4. remove masking tape<\/li>\n
  5. try to figure out how to fix this crap.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So I went back to the drawing board, did some research, and finally came up with the below technique:<\/p>\n

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    1. spray all parts with tamiya J.A. Grey (it’s kinda light olive greenish)<\/li>\n
    2. cut out organic shapes from masking tape and place them on parts<\/li>\n
    3. spray with a light tan color.<\/li>\n
    4. remove masking tape<\/li>\n
    5. use a very small brush and paint on darker stripes along some edged (I used the chocolate color with a little grey)<\/li>\n
    6. shade with airbrush<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\t\t