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Model Help* (Check Stickies and Search First) / Magnet Frame
« on: January 14, 2010, 12:51:00 PM »
Hey, long time lurker here, going to get straight to the point.
For a long time I've been kinda slowly gathering materials and conceptualizing models, I'm planning to scratchbuild quite a few and perhaps make something along the lines of Gundam Sentinel with them. Just a project I want to work on for a while and test my skills with.. I love writing and building models, so it seems a fun thing to do. But on to the real point.
The Mobile Suit I want to scratchbuild will be utilizing an electromagnetic frame. I've been considering the possibility of making it so in the model - use rare earth magnets to hold the joints and parts of the frame together. I have some rough sketches I could upload a little later of how the joints would fit together, but they'd basically be a lot of fins that slide past each other, almost like how the Turn A's look. I imagine I'd make the shoulder and hip joints more traditional for a more solid build as well as power regulation, but the spine of the MS would be done the same way - partially so it can have interchangable equipment that slides in and locks via magnets.
Now I figure magnets might not be completely strong enough to hold stuff up - I'm worried about the arms in particular, I think the legs will be alright. I guess the question I'm getting at here is the feasibility of this idea. I've got it worked out pretty well in my head and think it's viable, but I don't have quite the experience most modellers on this forum do, especially not with the magnets or full scratchbuilding. So, thoughts?
For a long time I've been kinda slowly gathering materials and conceptualizing models, I'm planning to scratchbuild quite a few and perhaps make something along the lines of Gundam Sentinel with them. Just a project I want to work on for a while and test my skills with.. I love writing and building models, so it seems a fun thing to do. But on to the real point.
The Mobile Suit I want to scratchbuild will be utilizing an electromagnetic frame. I've been considering the possibility of making it so in the model - use rare earth magnets to hold the joints and parts of the frame together. I have some rough sketches I could upload a little later of how the joints would fit together, but they'd basically be a lot of fins that slide past each other, almost like how the Turn A's look. I imagine I'd make the shoulder and hip joints more traditional for a more solid build as well as power regulation, but the spine of the MS would be done the same way - partially so it can have interchangable equipment that slides in and locks via magnets.
Now I figure magnets might not be completely strong enough to hold stuff up - I'm worried about the arms in particular, I think the legs will be alright. I guess the question I'm getting at here is the feasibility of this idea. I've got it worked out pretty well in my head and think it's viable, but I don't have quite the experience most modellers on this forum do, especially not with the magnets or full scratchbuilding. So, thoughts?