How to Magnetise the Goliath Truck/Goliath Rockgrinder

I magnetised my Goliath Truck and Goliath Rockgrinder crew, as well as the weapons options on the Rockgrinder for my Genestealers Cult army. This is a guide to how I carried this out.

For this, you will need:

• 2 mm Magnets
• 2 mm Pin vice
• Paint (any bright colour is fine)
• Spare sprue

Goliath Truck

It actually helps if you don't follow the assembly instructions fully on the Goliath Truck. It is easier to magnetise certain parts of the Truck before assembling the full chassis. 

Assemble the Heavy Stubber gunner (Part 2a in the instruction manual). Drill a 2 mm hole in one of the legs with your pin vice. 

Magnetising the Imperial Knight

Here is my guide on magnetising the Imperial Knight. 

With my White Scars army recently completed, I was keen to make a start on my Knight. I had picked up the Imperial Knight Renegade box as it was a bargain, selling off one of the Knights to make it even better value. I decided to magnetise my Knight to use all the available options, as I would be unlikely to purchase another. 

There were two other guides online that I found very useful for my own attempts. These were Nick's guide (the Burning Eye) and Alex's guide (From the Fang). I decided to write up my own guide too, in part because I was going to do a couple of things differently after checking out the assembly, and what else is the internet for except repeating the same information over and over in a variety of different ways. 

For my guide to magnetising the Imperial Knight, you will need:

• Imperial Knight (obviously!)
• Imperial Knight assembly guide (I used the one from the Renegades boxed set and I will be referring to numbered parts throughout)
• Hobby drill with 6 mm and 2 mm drill bits
• Eleven 6 mm x 2 mm magnets (I used these ones)
• Nine 2 mm x 1 mm magnets
• Hobby knife/stanley knife
• Superglue
• Plastic Glue
• Green Stuff or modelling clay
• Marker pen

GENERAL NOTE: I left the armour plates off of the Knight when assembling to make it easier to paint these separately and get to the detail underneath. 

Assembling and Magnetising the Stormhawk Interceptor

I recently purchased a new Stormhawk Interceptor after picking up the Death from the Skies expansion. I really liked the look of the new model and the rules were also rather great. I decided that I would magnetise the kit to get all the available options on the flyer.

 

One of the reasons for this is that it is actually quite difficult to choose between the Las-talon and Icarus Stormcannon. The Las-talon is a short ranged, two shot lascannon that is great for taking on vehicles or monstrous creatures. The Icarus Stormcannon on the other hand has Interceptor and Skyfire, great for possibly taking out enemy flyers before they have a chance to fire on the board and gets some big bonuses during the Dogfight phase.

 

After looking at the kit and checking out a few online guides, it was actually surprisingly easy to magnetise the kit.

 

I started by assembling the kit as detailed in the instructions. When it came to the tail section, I copied the Stormhawk conversion by Siph_Horridus over at the WeeMen blog. He had taken the top tailfin and moved it to the bottom after trimming the bottom fin. This gives the Stormhawk a much more streamlined look compared to assembling it in the regular fashion. I really liked this and it suited its role as a supersonic fighter jet.

 

I began by assembling the main hull. The bottom tail of the rear of the hull was removed.

The rear tail fin has been removed.

Hobby Sunday 25/10/15- Dark Talon/Nephilim jetfighter

With my White Scars command squad and Librarian being finished last week in preparation for Rapid Fire 2015, it was time to turn my attention to my Dark Angel's flyer.

 

With Blog Wars X fast approaching at the end of the month, it was time for me to get cracking with painting my Dark Talon. I had previously magnetised the flyer in order to be able to field both variants. Having never magnetised anything before, I was quite pleased with how it turned out in the end, but now it was time to get painting.

 

What I love about Ravenwing is that once the undercoat is done, a lot of your work in painting the model is essentially finished as the major colour in the army is black. I started off by giving the metal areas a drybrush with Boltgun Metal to pick out the details.

 

Next, the areas to be painted white (the wings, Ravenwing symbols and Dark Talon iconography) were given a coat of Dawnstone grey. In the case of the iconography, this was drybrushed over the black undercoat.

Hobby Sunday 03/10/15- Magnetising Dark Talon

This week I finally got started on magnetising my Dark Talon/Nephilim Jetfighter that I purchased back in August. Having never used the flyers before, I wanted the option of being able to use both variants for a bit of variety.

Having never attempted to magnetise anything before, I put the call out to fellow hobbyists for tips on how to go about this and for any guides that were available. Thanks to Greg, Dave and Alex for giving me advice on how to proceed and for the links to some existing guides:

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/271107-magnetizing-your-nephilimdark-talon/
http://eternalwargamer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/magnetising-nephilim.html
http://indexastartes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/magnetising-dark-angels-nephilim-dark.html?m=1

 

I think I perhaps started with a pretty complex kit as my first attempt, but my mind was made up and I wanted to give it a go.

 

I purchased a Dremel hobby drill and some 2x1 mm magnets and started to get to work. Once I started, I then realised how fiddly the magnets were. I was having a real problem getting them in to position properly and kept dropping them all the time. I decided I would need to purchase some plastic tweezers if I was going to have any chance of getting it done. My first problem was finding any. I scoured the local craft and hobby stores, but had no luck in finding any. I then purchased a set of plastic tweezers online, but forgot to check the delivery date. After a few days with no tweezers, I checked my order and discovered that the delivery time was anywhere from mid-September to the end of October. Fortunately, they arrived in just a few weeks, hence why it has taken me so long to get started on it.