#maganac

[phantomdive022]

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[catherinearbour]

Santa Sandrock and Maganac reindeer centerpiece because @roesart and I can.

[ephemeral-builds]

Quatre and his Sandrock Gundam were always my favorites from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. So, of course, I had to build the HGAC WMS-03 Maganac.

If I'm being completely honest - I don't love the design of these Maganac suits. They look weird. I don't like the brown/mustard color-scheme. But I figure if I'm going to build grunt suits like the Leo, I need to put some grunt suits on the other side of the fight too.

The color separation isn't fantastic in this kit, and there's some stickers to correct that... But they're really not bad. There's a few mustard panels to correct the shoulders, a couple stripes for the shield, and a couple eye/camera bits.

I didn't wind up using the eye/camera bits - I painted those with a nice metallic-pink paint marker.

The head just looks weird. And, unfortunately, the eye/camera is so deeply recessed that you can barely see it.

The shoulders feature the bulk of the color-correcting stickers... But, really, it doesn't look bad. They're nice and flat so there's no issue getting stuff to curve/bend/fold right.

I don't know if I'm seeing things... But these legs somehow give me Leo vibes.

The kit also comes with some marking stickers, which I didn't use. I'm not familiar enough with the Maganac Corps to care which unit I built.

There's a decent selection of accessories in this kit. There's a big shield, a heat tomahawk, and a beam rifle. Unfortunately the weapons are molded in black plastic that doesn't show a lot of detail very well... So I painted the blade of the heat tomahawk just to give it some life.

You can store all the accessories on the kit, which is always nice.

There's a clip on the back skirting for the heat tomahawk. The beam rifle attaches to the back of the shield, but it isn't very secure. And then you can stick the shield on the back for storage

The articulation is definitely a little limited... Those big shoulders get in the way a little bit and the legs are kind of stiff and chonky. But I guess it's about what I'd expect from a grunt suit. These guys aren't doing anything super-dramatic in the anime either.

There's really some fantastic details in this kit, too. Like little vents on the back of the elbows... Or all the verniers/thrusters all over the place.

A neat feature of these older HG kits is that the weapons are often ambidextrous.

This is yet another really solid HGAC kit. Maybe not super dramatic or exciting... But it's a great addition to my Wing collection.

[gundamfight]

[weirdunclegamer]

WING GRUNTS WING GRUNTS WING GRUNTS

With a recent delivery of some p-bandai stuff I had ordered (all gundam wing of course), I got the two maganac custom sets (and I had bought two regular maganac’s to accamodate the parts), and the leo full weapon set... and so now forest vs desert colored bots can gang war in the cubby!  And everyone has unique stuff!

Pay no mind to the pacemaker monitoring device half of them are standing on, I have a heart thing.  Someday I will find a way to buy a bunch of cheap card boxes, spray paint them black, and use them in all the cubbys.

[bobo-is-tha-bomb]

HGAC WMS-03 Maganac! ✨

[macks-mechas]

Today’s review: HGAC XXXG-01SR Gundam Sandrock!

Where to begin with this amazing little kit. For a new age gunpla, Bandai really went all out to make sure this melee based mobile suit had full access to the necessary articulation to make the absolute most of its poseability, even allowing the recreation of the MS lying on its side covered in flamingos (minus the flamingos).

The articulation is second to none and outstages the Maganac as it should. The waist has a unique assembly that allows the suit to lean over really far forward, being able to recreate its crouching charge as it throws the shotels. The shotels both have their standard and heated blades available, interchanged by simply pulling one out to exchange for the other.

The shield is impressive, needing only the eyes for stickers to complete its colour set. It is also capable of combining with the backpack and shotels to form the pincer used to crush OZ mobile suits and blow them to pieces.

The kit does have a couple of stickers, but even then they’re not wholely required to provide any major details. The red on the inside of the hip thrusters and the dark grey verniers are all you really have outside of the typical eyes and camera stickers.

I give Sandrock 10/10 - I can’t find any issues with this kit and trust me I’ve tried!

[christianmswanson]

Gonna have to grab another maganac. Wasn’t intended when I got it but now I’m planning to make a diorama of sandrock cutting a Leo in half. I might get the abdul and Rashid customs and have that maganac down in the sand.

Pardon the desk mess 😬