Bell of Lost Souls: Magnetic Flying Bases Tutorial

Delthos writes:

Looks like a decent enough technique for light weight plastic figs. Anything larger than a jetbike or the destroyers will likely not hold up. Which includes things like Falcons, Wave Serpents, Tau Tanks, and anything big and heavy like most metal Starship miniatures.

Alan, for that I'd look into Ninja Magic's magnetic base adapters. They work perfectly, I'm currently using them for some of the really big Babalon 5 ships, Vorlon Heavy Cruiser, all the big Brakiri ships (surprisingly enough more than most fleets), Centauri Octurion (I'd use it for their really big one if I had one), Narn Ka Bin Tak, EA Posiedon, etc… I'm also thinking of redoing all my big Battlefleet Gothic metal Battleship models as well. I can't recommend them enough.

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Bell of Lost Souls has just run a useful article on converting 40K models to use magnetic flying bases.

Playing Saim-Hann, and Destroyer spam Necrons, I used to go through a lot of flying bases as they break off at the peg from being used two or three times a week. The solution? Self contained magnetic flying stands that work for jetbikes, destroyers, land speeders, and anything else that uses the flimsy flying stand. The conversions starts out by cannibalizing a magnetic construction kit toy known as Magz here in the U.S.A., which consists of a collection of colored magnetic sticks that attach...