Magnetising Thropes

[Phelddagrif]

Quick question - can Zoanthrope be eaisly magnetised to be a Neuro or a Zoan at will?

[Kitane]

Not easily, no. They share tails, front body parts, and two out of three pairs of spore chimneys.

You could magnetize them, but it would be quite a lot of work.

Also tails can be converted from other models, like gargoyle bodies.

[yoritomo]

Casting GW parts is frowned upon on this forum. It is infringing on GW’s IP and therefore a violation of this forum’s terms of service.

I would ask that you cease discussion of making molds, casting parts, etc...

[hivefleetkerrigan]

You can take scything talon bits for the front nose part. With some imagination + greenstuff + another scything talon you can do the back part.

As a note: kitbashing with gargoyle tails is easy and looks good. Doing this, you can make 3 zoans, 1 neuro, and 3 venoms out of the one kit.

[Phelddagrif]

Aug 5, 2020 16:54:11 GMT Kitane said:

Not easily, no. They share tails, front body parts, and two out of three pairs of spore chimneys.

You could magnetize them, but it would be quite a lot of work.

Also tails can be converted from other models, like gargoyle bodies.

That means its just one part to be magnetised... sounds easy? Or perhaps i wrote the question/read the anwser wrong?

[Kitane]

Aug 5, 2020 18:36:48 GMT Phelddagrif said:

Aug 5, 2020 16:54:11 GMT Kitane said:

Not easily, no. They share tails, front body parts, and two out of three pairs of spore chimneys.

You could magnetize them, but it would be quite a lot of work.

Also tails can be converted from other models, like gargoyle bodies.

That means its just one part to be magnetised... sounds easy? Or perhaps i wrote the question/read the anwser wrong?

No, it's more than that. Each version has its own main body (without a small chest piece), the head, and the arms. You can glue all of these together.

Then the following items to magnetize:
- tail
- front chest piece
- 4 spore chimneys on the back (2 are unique to Venomthropes, 4 are shared between both)

A full magnetization would require 12 small magnets for spore chimneys (2x4 for bodies and 4 for chimneys), 2 larger for the tail, and 2 small for the chest piece.

The spore chimneys would be the most annoying to magnetize, maybe you could just pin them with a tight fit and without glue.

[Iryan]

It might honestly be easier to assemble one of the two, then do some kitbashing to build the other one with parts of another kit. Though I am not sure what other parts would be good for that...

Maybe build the venomthropes normally, then use the zoanthrope heads together with gargoyle bodies for tails and then the tyrant guard armor plate bits that get left over when you build hive guard?

[Phelddagrif]

Venomthropes? I was talking Neuro and Zoan only

[Kitane]

...right, reading failure, sorry. Magnetizing zoan vs neurothrope only.

Then you only have to worry about the spine and the head carapace.

The head carapace is easy, fill the shared bottom half of the head with greenstuff and put magnets in it.

The spine... I would probably pick the Neurothrope body as a shared body, then carefully cut off the extruding spine above the side protrusions and magnetize it.

zoan assembly instructions: link