{"id":1293,"date":"2011-01-30T01:21:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T09:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2011-01-30T01:21:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T09:21:29","slug":"saz-gets-a-little-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Saz gets a little paint.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another Saz update; and it has been a while.  But first off, I re-themed the site&#8217;s front end.  The wordpress end.  The old style is a bit dated, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to do an update for a while.  I did a little too many modifications on the last theme and that was a little too time consuming, so I grabbed a nice little theme that was very flexible with personalization and used my old theme&#8217;s main colors to retain some of my personal flavor.  I think the site is a little more streamlined.  I&#8217;ll be tweaking things here and there over the next week or so.  I&#8217;m always open for comments, or if you want to be added to my rss feeds and what not, let me know.  Hopefully the site is a little faster as well.  And about the ads, well, I kinda buried them before, hopefully they&#8217;re not too distracting from the content.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, enough about the site, on to the Saz, for which I have been continually working on; but progress at this point was kinda slow, I was waiting for some lights and stuff to show up&#8230; So last I left, I had just gotten the first layer of primer on the little bastard.  Well I had to go through several cycles of sand\/putty\/sand\/prime\/ repeat until I got the primer just right on the shoulders and chest. With that done, these past few days, I&#8217;ve been getting paint on the little bastard. Started off with the gloss black base.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 180_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 180_jpg.jpg\"><\/a>  <a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 181_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 181_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the parts sat over night to fully cure up. Then the alclad chrome. Well, not all the parts got chrome. The Saz has a two tone red, some parts are a lighter tone of red than the others. So the lighter areas got the chrome, the darker areas were sprayed with alclad steel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 186_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 186_jpg.jpg\"><\/a>  <a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 187_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 187_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now against my better judgment and what I always recommend to others; I went ahead and sprayed the next layer of paint only after waiting about half an hour to an hour for the paint to dry\/cure. I blame Angel for this. But over the chromed and steel painted parts, I sprayed alclad&#8217;s hot metal red. This is like a deep clear red. It&#8217;s damn nice. I only sprayed the forearms, upper arms, a few of the shoulder pieces, and the torso pieces. And I&#8217;m over halfway through the bottle. I went out and picked up another bottle of the stuff today. I&#8217;m pretty sure that it&#8217;ll probably take yet another bottle to finish painting the entire kit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 190_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 190_jpg.jpg\"><\/a>  <a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 191_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 191_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture with both parts, the tone difference is clear. It&#8217;s a little more subtle in person. I like it, and I think this should look fairly decent on the kit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 192_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 192_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other time consuming process is mold making and casting the resin. Actually the resin casting isn&#8217;t too time consuming, but it&#8217;s a fairly exact science. So some time was spent producing parts. The last picture in this set has the original part in comparison to the duplicated piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 182_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 182_jpg.jpg\"><\/a>  <a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 183_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 183_jpg.jpg\"><\/a>  <a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 184_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 184_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now for tonight&#8217;s work. I spent the evening working on the mono eye. With my lights delivered the other day, I can continue working on the smaller lighted areas. Some cutting and fitting was done to the Saz&#8217;s head areas to get the 1.8mm LED into position for use with the mono eye piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 201_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 201_jpg.jpg\"><\/a>  <a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 203_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 203_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And with the way I have the LED implemented, the mono eye&#8217;s full functionality is intact, yeah, gimmicky but hell, it wasn&#8217;t too difficult to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 197_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 197_jpg.jpg\"><\/a>  <a rel=\"lightbox[7]\" href=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/images\/hguc_sazabi_prog 198_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/thumbnails\/hguc_sazabi_prog 198_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damn, it&#8217;s a frigging HGUC kit&#8230;but it&#8217;s a pretty damn big HGUC kit. Damn fun, I see the appeal in building these over MGs&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another Saz update; and it has been a while. But first off, I re-themed the site&#8217;s front end. The wordpress end. The old style is a bit dated, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to do an update for a while. 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