Zaku II J: Textures Alpha

I'm trying to texture up a bunch of the OYW suits at the same time. This is kind of an alpha version of the Zaku, but it takes forever to render. I need to steady out some of the surfaces so that they look less plain and get some actual dirt look to the ...uh..dirt. Needs bumps and the works, but it's kind of the start of an interesting idea I had. Well, I thought it was interesting... We'll see.

Zaku II J: Bazooka

Not too far away from ending this one. I realized that I never made the bazooka that the Zaku II F2 used either which was something of an oversight. I'll get the leg missiles and axe out later.

Zaku II J: Rifle 2

Figures I'd see the detail I missed when I test rendered. The scope arm is not wide enough near the base and some of the detail is missing on the stock/body/etc. The barrel magazine is looking a wee chunky too. But...it's getting there. Might hammer out some of that Apsalus in a bit.

Zaku II J: Rifle 1

Getting back to the zakuII armament here. Started on the rifle which is quite clear as it looks very basic. Not much to see at present, but something none the less.

Zaku II J: Legs 2

So there are most of the legs, but it feels too faked for some reason. Might be too flattened out. Messed up the frame mostly because it's guessed upon using the Zaku Cannon and pics from the net. Might use bump maps to illustrate some of the detail that isn't there. Outside The *guessed* frame

Zaku II J: Legs 1

Went back to the game center for a few minutes and took on Gundam Senjo no Kizuna and was again royally shot up by GM sniper custom units. Just couldn't get the Zaku FZ to move out of the way of the beam. Interestingly, someone from my Zeon team had a MLRS GP02 which I thought was a Feddy machine in the game. Oh yeah, the Zaku IIJ's sexeh legs...er...the start of em.

Zaku II J: Arms

Well, there they are ..just about. Turns out that all of this nice detail work is raining hell on the polycounts, so I may scale back and use some bump maps here too. Thanks to all of the nice folks who are keeping watch on the blog. Much appreciated ;)

Zaku II J: Waist 2

Ran 3Km which wasn't much but the heat made it a really painful run. What made it nice is that the wife bought a couple of gundam mechanics books and sent em my way. Didn't touch the Astray today, seems like the comp is gonna burn up. Instead went back on the waist and some other long since forgotten things.

Zaku II J: Waist 1

So finally getting my laziness around to the waist. Not really lazy... just seems like I could have been here quicker if not for some texturing work. Ack, anyhoo...

Zaku II: Body 2

When the local WonderGOO store suddenly started selling its Gundam plamo at less than halfprice (like a year ago, they don't sell it round these parts anymore) I snatched up 3 MG's that I thought I'd never buy; the Acguy, Z'gok and Zaku Cannon. To be honest, I haven't built the first two yet, but the Zaku Cannon I did make and despite being ho-hum as far as exciting factor it was an awesome build -- further cool-ified by its presence in "Bonds of the Battlefield". I'm basically using that model to assist in building the Zaku II's body frame as images from the net show that it appears to vary very little in the torso's frame. Not done yet, but close. The backpack is removable in the MG Cannon so I made the Zaku II the same way. The detail shouldn't be too far off.

Zaku II: Body 1

Was in Osaka the latter half of last week and ran my half marathon on Sunday, but screwed my ankle up pretty good. Finally getting to this guy while drinking some Pepsi Shiso

Zaku II: Head

Fighting off viruses on this machine. Seems it had been infected for a few days without my knowledge. Probably not free of those buggers yet but... Went to the game center while it scanned everything. Played some Bonds of the Battlefield (zeon side). Great game. Motivated to keep on the Zaku II and maybe get to that Gouf Custom someday after finally getting enough pilot points for the zaku sniper in the game. Got beat pretty badly though. So...head!

Zaku II: Go!

Wanted to fix the Musha image by first removing the Zaku 2F2 from the image and replacing it with the Zaku II. Of course, that means I have to build it. Additionally I can use the head and legs for the Apsalus which I swear I will return to... but further, I had planned ... nevermind. One step at a time so as not to trip myself up. Still working on the Astray textures too, just taking another breather.