The Maganac’s Upper Torso is more of the same, at least in regards to design. In terms of the build, however, we have some interesting things going on.
First off, the chest:
As you can see, There are five separate orange segments. In reality, however, there only three orange pieces. In order to make them look separate, you have get out some brown paint, specifically painting the two deep channels on the side pieces (seen below in yellow), and painting the sides of the center piece (shown below in green):
This was easier said than done. You have to paint along the sides of each channel otherwise the effect does not work nearly as well.
The sides and front of the chest have little to no additional details. The side view has little to show us:
The Maganac does have rocket boosters on its back, but its backpack is extremely small. I tried adding some silver weathering compound to the rocket nozzles, just to give them some spice, but for whatever reason it did not want to stick.
With the shoulder armor, we get a situation that is both exactly the same as before and also entirely different. Rather than use plastic parts, the kit uses decals to create the orange sections of the shoulder armor. This works out better than you might expect. There are four decals, one for each side of each piece. At the center of the decal are two thin parallel lines. I tried to simulate roughly where they were in the photo below:
For me, these lines had two purposes. First, I used them to line up the decal. Next, I carved out the section of the decal between the two lines and filled in the gap with paint, thus creating the desired parts separation.
There is another part to the shoulder armor, which specifically cover the sides of the arms. They are essentially smaller versions of the model’s side skirt armor:
The fully assembled shoulder armor pieces actually clip onto the arms, rather than being threaded through them. This means they can be taken off, if for some reason you needed to do that.
Speaking of the arms, they are not much different than the legs - round and tan, with some big gears at the joints:
After attaching the arms, we are thiiiiiis close to finishing the model:
All that is left is the head:
It is a simple design, but I quite it. It reminds me of a desert hat:
This is where I experienced my one and only broken piece. The very tiny tanish-colored piece in the front of the face broke in two. You can tell in the photo up above up photo, but you cannot really tell from a distance.
For now, here is a poorly lit shot of the assembled Maganac:
In the final post we will take a look at at least a few better photos, and maybe some poses too.