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Post by goodjazz on Jun 29, 2017 7:46:36 GMT
Hi everyone,
I am currently magnetizing my titan kit and wanted to ask how others did it. If I didn't miss anything there are 29 magnets needed to do this propperly, including the small pair of arms and even the tusks (there are 3 heads, but only one set of tusks). Is it needed for tournament play to actually get it all done or could I just keep one head for all 3 different Beasts and just use the small arms without any gadgets (the cannoneer is holding a torch)?
Has anyone experience with this? Has anyone actually magnetized the tusks? did it work?
Currently I have 2x5, 1x5, 2x3, 1x3mm magnets. Am I needing anything else?
Thanks for your advice.
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Post by sentinel on Jun 29, 2017 8:19:34 GMT
I have 1 pair of magnets in head and pair of magnets in hands. Thats it, and IMO thats enought. Magnetising small hands is too much - i just use gladiators ones.
That all cause i found additional sets of tusks. You might want to try to search for it in PP bits shop or somewhere else.
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Post by goodjazz on Jun 29, 2017 11:33:13 GMT
Thanks,
the bitshop is good advice, unfortunately I am european and ordering 8 tusks (4$) will be charged with 14$ shipping cost. oO
Also I realized there might be 2 different verions of the kit, since mine (skorne army box 2017, probably the new version) has no arms attached to the body and therefore needs a magnet between arm and shoulder (2 different right arms) and another one between right arm and right hand (switching from gladiator to sentury). I almost feel like they "optimized" to make it hard to magnetize for people to flip the table and just buy a kit for every model they need...
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cassus
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Post by cassus on Jun 29, 2017 13:15:53 GMT
I have magnetized every part of my titan kits, tusks included. I mainly used 5x2mm magnets to do the large arms and for everything else I used 3x1mm magnets. Aside from needing an appropriate sized drill bit for each magnet its pretty simple work.
One piece of advice I would give though is if you are doing multiple titan kits this way make sure your magnets are all polarized the same way across all your kits.
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regleant
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Post by regleant on Jun 30, 2017 2:20:38 GMT
One piece of advice I would give though is if you are doing multiple titan kits this way make sure your magnets are all polarized the same way across all your kits. So very much this. I haven't magnetized my Skorne, but I did magnetize 3 Protectorate and 2 Legion kits, as well as 11 TAU battle suits with all of the bits. ALL. OF. THE. BITS. On the plus side, it's much easier than painting, and I would sooner drill and fit magnets than pick up a paint brush any day. |
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Post by goodjazz on Jun 30, 2017 10:26:09 GMT
One piece of advice I would give though is if you are doing multiple titan kits this way make sure your magnets are all polarized the same way across all your kits. So very much this. I haven't magnetized my Skorne, but I did magnetize 3 Protectorate and 2 Legion kits, as well as 11 TAU battle suits with all of the bits. ALL. OF. THE. BITS. On the plus side, it's much easier than painting, and I would sooner drill and fit magnets than pick up a paint brush any day. Good advice with the same way polarization! I definately prefere painting over magnetizing. But nonetheless, I will go for it then. Thanks for all the advice.  |
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