A Little Modeling...

40k has been in a lull at the Castle of late, so I have turned that lack of game time to a little modeling instead.

With the rising prices and GW's ever changing rules, magnets have become a good investment on dual kits (Exocrine/Hausprex) or units with various
weapon load outs (Tau Suits).

First thing I decide to tackle were the Tau stealth suits, as it only has one option, 1 in every 3 suits can take a Fusion Blaster. I used 1/16 magnets for this project. A caveat on magnets this small, they must make flush contact to hold. If contact is flush plenty of holding power, if not flush or not making contact they rapidly lose pull.These little magnets look huge on the suit:

After drilling both guns out I can now swap weapons:

After the success here, I moved on to a bigger a challenge, the Piranha. This was a bit trickier to do as you have to magnetize the turret mount instead of the weapon, also need a bigger magnet so went to 1/8, which has a lot of hold.

As you can see I went with magnetizing the chin cover to hole it all in place and still give me a swiveling gun.

Previously I had done one of the big bugs, the Hausprex/Exocrine dual kit. This guy used a lot of magnets of the 1/8 (arms) and 3/16 (heads) to get good holds.

Exocrine

 

Hausprex

 

In fact the holds are strong enough on the heads you can carry it around by either one. I learned a few handy tricks doing the heads on this one.