After a good tip from a friend of mine i decided to take a look at magnetizing some of my new Necron heavy destroyers. This way i could deploy them as either heavy or normal destroyers. The operation was fairly simple as you can see in the pictures. I bought the magnets for under three euro’s in the “action” store. It is sold as “magnastix”. In order to get the magnets you will have to cut open the plastic rods with a sharp cutting tool. Watch out for the metal inside!
First i widened the hole in the Torso of the destroyers. With a little green-stuff i fixed the magnets in place making sure the edge of the magnet was on the edge of the ribcage.
For the heavy weapons i just fixed an other magnet to the weapon. I made sure the polarity was right (or else the weapon would not be usable at all). I did not use the supplied spacer.
I cut off the joint ball of the normal destroyer arm, and then i fixated a magnet to the arm using green-stuff. Not the nicest method but it will look better once painted. I attached the gun to the arm at a later date.
And you are done. Of course you can magnetise the flying base in the same manner, but at the moment this is not giving me any problems. If you are going to do this as well remember “polarity” Make sure the magnets are facing the correct way. I marked one of the rods, and i used it to make sure all magnets were facing the correct way, without using the magnets that were freshly glued to a model! In the process my Dreadnought got magnetized as well. He has got some weird weapon options now!
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