"Attack the K2"
MS06F2-ZakuII
Resin - Fullscratchbuilt scale 1/220
The
idea: This diorama is born after the reading of the
sidestory of Gundam drawn from “ReiNakahara” that draws
a short story of a pilot of a Zion MS (Ltn. Morris R. Lachenal)
which being of appeal near a Base at tha feet of mountain K2, is
taken by the impulse to complete the climbing that had never succeeded
in many years before and in which his friend of climb had died.
Scratcbuilding
Zaku:
To realize the model I started from kit in fixed laying that was
not so proportioned and needing some improvements as the possibility
to be fixed in every kind of pose.
The first thing was to recast some pieces of the original kit and
cut away the pieces that hve to be remaked in separated mode. I
realized the superior bust, the skirts side and frontal and the
basin. For the thighs I have had to recreate the lacking part since
' being fixed laying you/they had been reproduced to destination
only. The knees also suffered change being lacking of a part and
so the calves where I have had to dig for creating the space to
move them well. The superior part of the bust was detailed with
the addition of the mechanism of hookup of the shoulder realized
with false pistons of plasticard, copper wires and a bit of metallic
rubber band. All the joints of the body have been made positionable
with hookups to sphere to give possibility of moving. For the head
I have carved the detail only for the rail of slide of the eye.
The spiked shoulder in origin was an unique block with the inside
part so I have dug with a dremel to have this movable, and I duplicated
the right shoulder obviously recreating the hookup. The shield that
goes on the right shoulder has been scratch by zero.
I scratch totally the Axe of the zaku because everyone seem too
small to me and so I worked to make a new greater one. For this
Zaku I have also realized a Jetpack and the fuel tanks that doesn't
exist in this configuration.
WoodenBase:
My father that works wood for hobby made the base that had to keep
the rock wall. To make the rock I've carved with a chisel a piece
of epowood and covered with some layers of putty and sprayputty,
obviously verifying first the position of the MS with the points
of contact on the rock. To make better the idea of the scene I digitalized
the pages of the comic strip with the interested scene and after
some changes with photoshop I printed it and glued under the rock
wall.
