Gargoyles + Magnets

[Yautja]

I just thought I'd share this info as it was news to me so maybe useful to others too.

Couple of people mentioned magnetising their Gargoyles on Facebook. I was wary about whether it would be flimsy or not but I happened to have plenty of 3mm magnets and some spare Gargoyles so decided to test it.

Cut off the nib of the flier base and the magnet glues on fine, being the same diameter. I put in a tiny ball of GS and a blob of super glue and jam the other magnet into the hole in the model and it fits perfectly.

Am delighted to say that it's really solid! Can wave the base around with zero hint of the model flying off. Going to do this to all the others now.

No more loose fits falling off while being moved in battle. No more base nibs snapping off inside the model. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. EVERYONE with Gargoyles should do this! Especially if you use loads thanks to Skytyrant/Skyblight.

Apologies if this is already common practice for the veteran players.

[Kyokii]

I thought about it but what about the magnet popping off the base?

[rogueaccount]

Mine have been magnetized since the plastic kit came out. Haven't had one pop off yet.

[WestRider]

There's not a huge amount of force being applied to the magnets in this case, so them popping off the base is a pretty minimal concern. I think I've had it happen once to one of my Shrikes that I did the same way three years ago, and they're putting way more stress on the join.

I drilled into the stem on a bunch of my Gargs and put in 1/16" magnets, which means no chance of them falling off, but they shake around a bit.

[Freeman]

I've even gone as far as to replace my flying bases with metal nails into bases so there's only one magnet.

[Yautja]

All 24 or so of my Gargoyles have now been magnetised. It's so much quicker to deploy them and they are easier to move without problems too.

[ghostnids]

Thanks Yautja! Never thought of that before.

[gangisconn]

I have some rare earth magnets coming soon. Has anyone used that brand? Do you think they will be strong enough for old metal gargoyles? I didn't think of using them for my smaller models, I'm going to try after reading this post. If no one's tried I'll give my results whenever I get it done.

[Yautja]

I can only vouch for them on the plastic gargoyles. Metal will be considerably heavier so no idea.