SD Zeong

Quoting from Gundam.wikia.com:

The MSN-02 Zeong is a prototype mobile suit developed by the Principality of Zeon at A Baoa Qu space fortress during the One Year War of the anime Mobile Suit Gundam. The Zeong was built especially for Newtype pilots and was first piloted by the "Red Comet" Char Aznable.






The final product of the MS-16X "Bishop Plan", the Zeong was a mobile suit in the fact that it featured a roughly humanoid shape. However, it lacked legs, which first surprised its pilot. Although it was only 80% complete, it didn't matter in gravity-lacking space, since the legs aided in the AMBAC System. Because of that factor, it was at 100% combat capacity when first used.








The Zeong was the first mobile suit to use Psycommu system. This let it effectively use its wire-guided, remote-controlled arms, each built with 5-mega particle gun fingers. Two additional beam guns were built into the torso. Lastly, there was a single beam cannon inside the head. Unlike the mobile suits of the time, the Zeong had its cockpit built in the head, which could detach from the body and act as an escape pod for the pilot.

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The SD Zeong is a very small kit and requires very little time to build because of its simplicity. It comes with a pair of legs to form the Perfect Zeong but I opted to not build them as I wanted to detail the thrusters under the skirt armor. You will also notice that I got rid of the huge antennas that were attached to the sides of the head as I felt that it took away from the general aesthetics of the the Zeong and instead I have replaced that with some detail parts from an old model kit of a ship that I was not able to finish.


I took my sweet time with this kit, probably because it was so much fun to build something this simple. I've spent quite some time this year working on some Master Grades and I wanted to have a break from those. I heavily weathered this one using acrylic paints and I've found out that I can do some weathering without having to rely on oil paints which dry longer. I also did some minor panel work and added some plastic plates to add detail as the original Zeong was quite simplistic and had large panels that begged for detail.



I used a hobby knife and my side cutter to scar the kit. I know the effects I did aren't realistic and I would also like to try using a heated rod to melt some of the parts as well as use the engraving tool my brother gave me to damage my next weathered build. If you've noticed, I do not do a lot of weathered kits because I liked the challenge of building a clean kit but starting with this one, I think I will start considering to mess up my mechs a little bit more.



I used decals from my spares decals sheet that a friend of mine supplied me with along with some of the decals that I have accumulated over the years. I also hand-painted this kit and while it took longer to finish compared to when I used an airbrush it was still tons of fun. SD kits are starting to grow on me and I think it is about time to start working on some of the kits from this line that's stashed away in storage..

I'm currently putting together a tutorial on how I build my kits and how I hand-paint them. I will try my best to share with you guys how it is possible to build and paint kits without having to invest so much money on tools and hobby supplies by looking at alternatives to the usual hobby supplies that we see online. 

Thanks for reading and please do watch out for the next update where I'll start posting the tutorial. We'll be building the HG Delta Plus for this.

God bless!

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