{"id":1268,"date":"2022-03-26T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2022-03-27T04:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T09:31:36","slug":"poseable-therefore-valid-day-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Poseable, Therefore Valid (day 42)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had struggled for a while to figure out how to add a polycap joint to allow the chest block to move relative to the midriff, but finally I found a solution: Have two polycaps, one on either side of the cockpit, so the joints wouldn&#8217;t prevent me from having a hatch-open cockpit part as an option, and put the joints at the bottom of the chest block, rather than the top of the midriff, so I wouldn&#8217;t see them poking out the front sides of the midriff. It was a slow process to add the polycap to the torso, and I&#8217;ve only done one side so far, but it looks promising.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_5_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"This is roughly how much forward bend I will get at this joint\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_4_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The chest\/midriff joint in a more upright position. Note the midriff part still sweeps forward a bit to facilitate mobility at the waist joint.\"><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI do think it&#8217;s worth noting that making models poseable is a particular hang-up of Gundam modelers, and anime mecha modelers more generally. There&#8217;s no reason, for instance, that different midriff poses couldn&#8217;t be done with part swaps, or why all the parts of the robot couldn&#8217;t be connected by armature wire instead of moving polycap joints&#8230;  Except that for Gundam modelers, myself included to some extent, that&#8217;s often not good enough. I criticize Bandai for focusing too much on such features, but I guess I do it too.<br \/>\nThe main issue that comes from having the polycap joint above the top of the midriff part instead of level with it is that this means the top of the midriff part swings forward a bit when the joint bends. This means there needs to be a little bit more clearance in front, a bit of a gap between the bottom of the chest block and the midriff part.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_1_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"It was hard to work out exactly where to position this polycap. Once I worked out a viable position I marked it for reference when I started cutting\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_2_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"After positioning the left-side polycap: This would have been far easier if I'd thought of this back when I was first building the chest block. Going back after the fact, hacking up styrene to carve out a place for a polycap is kind of tough, and it took a lot of time.\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_3_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The new joint assembled\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_4_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The new joint in the upright positon\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_chest_midriff_joint_5_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The new joint in the bent position\"><\/a><br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t got the fit quite right on this joint yet, and because I&#8217;ve only put one polycap in, and the joint isn&#8217;t yet really secure, it gets pushed off-center very easily. I&#8217;ll have to fix that up another day, though.<br \/>\nI also did a bit of work on the backpack: I added some plates to the inner surfaces of the thruster wells to make the part a little bit more substantial when it&#8217;s recast, and make it look more substantial in the finished model as well. I&#8217;ve started work to figure out how to mount the connection point for the waist cables, but I haven&#8217;t got all the details down yet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_backpack_plating_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_backpack_plating_1_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"I added a half millimeter of thickness to these inner surfaces. I started by guessing at the size and shape of the plate I'd need, then I trimmed down until it fit.\"><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_backpack_plating_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_20220326_backpack_plating_2_thumb.jpeg\" title=\"The backack after the various plates have been added\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had struggled for a while to figure out how to add a polycap joint to allow the chest block to move relative to the midriff, but finally I found a solution: Have two polycaps, one on either side of the cockpit, so the joints wouldn&#8217;t prevent me from having a hatch-open cockpit part as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,86,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}