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I've started building my Deathwatch Marines, and here are the first few tests for interchangeability.

Devastator Marine:











The gap in the cables is a slight problem.



And a Sergent:

For future marines, I would advise embedding the magnets into the arms and body themselves, it would help get rid of that nasty gap problem you have.

I embedded them some. I've done it a bit more on the next couple. These are a few more options for the same marines:

I think you should use 2mm by 2mm magnets as you can drill them into the model.

Why do people insist on magnatizing infantry?

So you aren't stuck with one option, and when the codex changes you aren't screwed out of your whole army.

makes sense, but where did you get the magnets from as I am having truoble finding ones that small?

Try Ebay.... :-P Just search for "Warhammer Magnets"

Cool stuff, I would like to see tham painted.

http://www.kjmagnetics.com/

Pherion wrote:So you aren't stuck with one option, and when the codex changes you aren't screwed out of your whole army.

Whole army, eh?

amazingmagnets.com

It's amazing, the name says so.

Breotan wrote:Whole army, eh?

Oh for goodness sake, you know what I mean. Anyone who's played this game for more than 1 eddition has had an awsome squad that becomes utterly useless in the army's next itteration. Weapon options change between edditions, squad composition changes. It just makes sence to me to make it all interchangeable since SMs get redone almost every eddition.

@CrashUSAR they are amazing :-P

Update :-P

Added etched brass to some models:

OK! I'm working on building a tac squad now too, but I havn't really moved onto painting the devestators yet. I've also ordered some smaller magnets. So hopefully they will work better.

I need some suggestions for bassing. I want to go for a dark industrial feel, but I'm not sure how to acheive the two types of flooring that I want. Here's the pics of them, and any suggestions will be greatly apreciated! :-P

Well for the flooring you could use some mesh which you can buy at a hardware store I think.

Here's a quick update on the Vindicator and Drop Pod I've built.

CrashUSAR wrote:For future marines, I would advise embedding the magnets into the arms and body themselves, it would help get rid of that nasty gap problem you have.

..I reckon it looks pretty good that way

I've ordered smaller magnets, so they will be embedded further in the future :-P Thanks.

In the mean time heres a shot of everything but the drop pod (tank wise) primmed up!

I've assembled the "extras" for the devy squad (in other words, expendable marines!)

This is a converted Stalker pattern bolter, tutorial here!


I like this guy, its a bit fuzzy, but it looks like he's "launching" a servo skull kinda like the CP's in Half Life launch Manhacks.


And this guy just has an extra missle!


Auspex dude!



And the obligatory bolter marine!

Pherion wrote:OK! I'm working on building a tac squad now too, but I havn't really moved onto painting the devestators yet. I've also ordered some smaller magnets. So hopefully they will work better.

I need some suggestions for bassing. I want to go for a dark industrial feel, but I'm not sure how to acheive the two types of flooring that I want. Here's the pics of them, and any suggestions will be greatly apreciated! :-P

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0097p?FVSEARCH=+++diamond+plate&CATEGORY=RE&MANUFACTURER=&submit=Submit+AdvancedSearch
There you go

Thanks for the link I actually already ordered some of the diamonds from plastruct directly.

Ok! Some fun pics of the generic bolter dudes for the tac squad:

I thought it would be fun to mark my first tac squad with something special, so I gave one guy a banner!


Bolter and pistol! Why? Because I can!


Reloading (thanks in part to the tutorial in here!) .... Yes I know its not drilled yet! ;;


And a bayonet!



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Tac Squad is done except for adding some etched brass here and there! ... I know I'm just full of updates today!

Heavy Weapon dude! Note the heavy weapon is from the devastators I previously completed. So magnet polarities are consistent. I intend for this to remain the case for the whole army. Also, I plopped the Multi-Melta with the gap in the cables on this new guy, and because the magnets are smaller, there's no gap in the cable. So I'll just keep the multi-Melta on this guy (or one of the other Tac heavy guys).


Sergent! Again, polarities are consistent, so these options are interchangeable with the Devastator sergeant.


And the special weapon guy, with a meltagun....


or a flamer!

Awesome, I've started my own DEATHWATCH 20 man Kill team standby for my 1st conversions. Oh and standby for Controversy, I have a DEATHWATCH Scout squad made up of Scout Verteran Sergeants, Space Wolves, SM Scout conversions & converted Telion with Inquistor Crest. Hope i don't screw up the paint job.

Actually for the diamond plastic stuff a lot of food like doughnuts is packed with it just clean and hey presto. Recycling in action!

Update! I added butt loads of stuff to the standard bearer! Here's a few pics:

A quick update!

I picked up some woodland scenics grasses today to experiment with for the Deathwatch bases. The idea is use the diamond flooring in conjunction with some mesh flooring. I'll put some gaps and "curbs" in between the types, and sometimes separate the same type for a crack. I want to put grass into the cracks like its overgrowing the industrial area. The grass is going to be a mixture of the brown you see below, and a little pale green. The idea is to show kinda dead grass thats just barely struggling to stay alive.

... Anyway! Here's a quick test I did on some parchment paper. I'm trying to figure out how to do different sizes of this stuff, and how to get it to bush out in different ways. If anyone's got tips or tuts on how to make this stuff act differently, please speak up :-P

Heres a base test I did for my Deathwatch (my plastruct came in!)



Also, I used some 3/32 " plastruct tube, and a 1/8 " hole punch to make some shell casings. I think they still look a bit big, but they could be from the 40k equivelent of a 40 cal?



I'm going to try and get to the store tomorrow and get some grating type mesh to use in conjunction with the diamond plates. I've got some small L beams to use as "curbs" between the types of flooring so I can use both on the same base. We'll see how that turns out!

Are you doing a whole Deathwatch Marine army?

I get my mags from here; http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/?g&gclid=CMLBt5XH3IICFSZ5NAodVCa8lA
They have a really good range of sizes. Aside, I have to agree that this is really good work, but a bit crazy in my opinion. That's a lot of work considering the reward. But it looks great!

@H.B.M.C. - Yup! They are just vanilla marines rules wise, but every dude will have a deathwatch shoulder pad and a chapter shoulder pad!

@jabbukahut - It is a lot of work. But when I see these guys turning out nicely, I think its well worth the effort!


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And....
Here's the captain and all his options :-P