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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by zourn to c/gunpla
 

Or as my wife likes to refer to it, the iPhone Zaku. I didn't seem to run into the same build issues that I did when I built the OG RG Zaku II, which had me belly crawling on the floor to find spring-flung beads and supergluing the leg spring mounts.

However, the pauldron sticker with the blue stripes was abysmal trying to get it to match the opposing and ever changing radius curves. The sticker was never going to lay flat. Luckily, there was an unused logo that matched the one on the stripe sticker, and I had a bottle of acrylic paint that was bought to paint rocks, and had also been recently used on some Warhammer minis that matched the color pretty spot-on. I ended up freehanding the stripes. It isn't perfect, but it definitely looks better than the sticker did.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Looks great! Stickers on curved surfaces are a plague. Waterslides fare better but those shoulder pauldrons are exactly the wrong shape for large detail striping lol. Not a single soul is going to notice that it's freehand once it's in a display.