Magnetizing mawloc/trygon

[guy]

Hello,

Having a Trygon / mawloc model to build, i'd like to do the following thing:

- mount the body as a trygon, with trygon scything talons
- only magnetize the head to serve as a trygon/mawloc, for visual reference

As i don't want to magnetize the talons.

Do you think it would pass for WYSIWGT, outside of the friend circle ?

Thanks

[4armedfury]

100% yes.

don't magnetize the arms, i did....and I regret it! good thing it was only my first 3 I did that to!

[Iryan]

I magnetized the head for mine and not the talons. I kinda wish I had done the talons though, since that way it would be much easier to transport.

That said, magnetizing the head is a bit tricky. The upper jaw and neck are all a single bit that is shared between all models, so you basically need to magnetize the lower jaw and, if you desire, the head plate. Magnetizing the jaw is in itself pretty tricky, especially the mawloc one, since the lower jaw consists of multiple pieces. There is also no good spot to just glue the magnet in, so I had to fill stuff up with modelling putty and glue the magnets into the putty. Then I slowly carved away at the two lower jaws and the connecting section of the main head, until they all fit together.

[guy]

Didn't even think about transportation.

I started magnetizing the head and the jaw is indead a bit of a pain.

Thanks for sharing your pictures; my guess about the size of the mawloc's talons would be that : "those who know don't care, and those who care don't know".