{"id":3403,"date":"2010-03-08T21:46:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2010-03-08T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:51:42","slug":"completed-%c2%bb-mg-chars-zaku-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/completed-%c2%bb-mg-chars-zaku-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Completed \u00c2\u00bb MG Chars Zaku 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/FichtenFoo-CharsZaku2-02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"anInprogImage\" title=\"FichtenFoo-CharsZaku2-02\" src=\"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/FichtenFoo-CharsZaku2-02-460x741.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"741\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/forum\/index.php?topic=5472.0\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3333\" title=\"mgx41\" src=\"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mgx41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mgx41.png 190w, https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mgx41-100x37.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>This makes three in my MGX4 challenge. (click the logo) Now I just need to do one more before April 30th and I win nothing but the satisfaction of building a bunch of kits in a short period of time. Yay me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is the Master Grade Zaku 2.0 in Char Aznables custom colors. Originally I was going to do this for myself in a different scheme, but I got an offer on it to build it as a Char version and it turned into a commission. I snapped some quick images without any pose because I don&#8217;t want to accidentally scratch the paint before shipping it out.<\/p>\n<p>As for what I did to this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replaced all bells with Mechaskunk and Ako Creations Aluminum thruster bells.<\/li>\n<li>Replaced pipe bead insides with springs.<\/li>\n<li>Applied Ako Creation Metal Transfers (awesome BTW!)<\/li>\n<li>Added vernier to front chest.<\/li>\n<li>Replaced eye with SP Eye metal part and Aurora Sticker<\/li>\n<li>Replaced weapon lenses with Aurora stickers<\/li>\n<li>Internals painted in mixtures of Mr. Color (Gunmetal and Titanium\/Brass)<\/li>\n<li>Bandai and HiQ decals<\/li>\n<li>Mechaskunk screws for shield inside<\/li>\n<li>Aluminum shoulder spikes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 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(click the logo) Now I just need to do one more before April 30th and I win nothing but the satisfaction of building a bunch of kits in a short period of time. Yay me. Anyway, this is the Master Grade Zaku 2.0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/completed-%c2%bb-mg-chars-zaku-2-0\/\"><span>Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[138,61,2],"tags":[65,72,98,487,486,139,438,463,42,292,477,482,473,475,472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}