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looking to magnetize some of my army (mostly Nobz) and just not really sure what size i should go with. lol and any other tips would also be a huge help.

It's pity that I didn't consider magnetizing my Nobs until soon after assembling the bodies. I realised that afterwards it would be pretty much impossible to do effectively. I even assembled all the weapons separately to ease the painting, proving that it would have been a possible project had I not assembled the bodies.

If I were given a brand new box of Nobs, I would probably get magnets that were about 4mm wide and the same thickness as plastic on Nob's shoulder (by shoulder I mean the part of torso in which you glue the arms). Drill a 4mm diameter hole in the shoulder and glue a piece of plasticard to the torso inside to support the magnet and prevent it from falling inside the hollow torso. This arrangment should make a perfectly sized and very solid hole for magnet. For the arm, I probably wouldn't use a magnet at all but glue a very thin sheet of metal instead. Making magnet-to-metal joints instead of magnet-to-magnet means that I wouldn't have to worry about messing up with polarity of magnets.

The reason why I cannot do this afterwards is the fact that Nob torsos are hollow. I cannot drill a hole for the magnet on torso without excess material ending up inside the torso, and even if I could remove the excess plastic from the inside, attaching the magnet would be nigh impossible. In theory, I could still use the original plan reversed - glue the magnet on arm and use thin sheet of metal on torso but that would not be an optimal solution, IMO.

lol yeah i glued my bodies together also. i was thinking that if i could get them back open????? i could just place the mag on the inside of the body and only have to drill into his arms.