1/144 HGUC #SP - 08th MS Team Special Set - Zaku Ground War set

Product Description

Includes

Italicized lines are optional pieces that can be built by your desire.

• Zaku II
  • Head units
    • Normal
    • Commander
  • Manipulators
    • General weapon-holding (1 pair)
    • Trigger-fingers (1 pair)
    • Weapon-holding (Strum Faust) (1 pair)
    • Open-palm (Splayed) (1 pair)
  • Zaku Machine Gun
  • Heat Hawk
    • Adapter piece
  • Bazooka
    • Firing effect
  • 2 Leg-mounted Missile Pods
    • 3 pairs of removable missiles
  • 2 Strum Fausts
    • Adapters
• 2 Type 61 Tanks
  • 2 pair of destroyed treads
  • 2 explosion effects
• 2 PVN.4/3 Wappas
  • 2 Pilot figurines
• 2 pairs of E.F.S.F. soldier figurines
• 1 pair of Zeon soldier figurines

Kit Features & Gimmicks

Italicized lines are optional gimmicks.

• Zaku II's head can be built with either normal or commander type heads.

Articulation

Zaku II

• Mono-eye can move left and right. (removal of helmet required)
• The head can rotate on. ball-joint neck.
• Shoulder joints can tilt forward.
• The arms can...
  • Swing on a peg-and-socket joint.
  • Raise horizontally.
• The left shoulder armor and the right shoulder shield is jointed to avoid interference with the arm articulation.
• The elbow joints can be bent up to 90 degrees.
• The manipulators can swivel on a ball-and-socket joint.
• The upper elbows can turn.
• Front and side skirt armors can slightly pivot to avoid interference with the leg articulation.
• The upper thighs can swivel on the hips' ball-and-socket joints, though the backwards articulation is limited due to the non-poseable rear skirt armor.
• The knee joints can be bent up to 100 degrees.
• The ankles feature double-jointed parts, allowing to further tilt forward.
  • The feet can swivel on the ankle ball-joint part.

Other

• Type 61 Tank turrets can rotate, and the gun barrels can pivot.

Weapon/Other Gimmicks

Zaku II

• The hands are swappable.
• Any of the weapons can be wielded by the kit's normal and/or trigger hands. (Though compatible with the former, the machine gun and the bazooka must be wielded by the latter)
• Machine Gun's foregrip can swing left or right.
• Bazooka's foregrip and scope can swing up and down.
• Bazooka can latch onto the rear waist armor via a flip-out mounting joint.
• Heat Hawk can mount onto the left waist armor with an adapter.
• The Firing effect + Rocket can be mounted onto the Bazooka.
• Strum Fausts can be wielded by either the default holding hands or the index-middle finger hands.
  • Strum Faust can also mount onto the left waist armor via an adapter.

Others

• Type 61 Tank can also recreate it's destroyed form via minor parts rearrangement.
• The riding figurines can mount onto the Wappas. 
• The extra Strum Faust and Splayed hands can mount onto any HGUC Zaku II mold.

Tips & Tricks

• For better results, some or most of the details (including figurines) are needed to be applied/panel-lined with Gundam Markers and/or Mr. Color paints.
• Topcoat (Mr. Hobby recommended) can be used to protect applied stickers/marking decals and if any, painted details.
• Professional skills are required if one wishes to do the weathering.