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I have no experience with green stuff. That will be changing very soon. My worry is this. With the strength of the magnets, will crazy glue or the smelly epoxy glue hold the magnet in place? I would like the option to pull bases off for storage. Yes, I will remove carefully by sliding off rather than pulling magnets apart.

What you can do if worried about magnets pulling off for large pieces is drill out the hole for the magnet (of whatever size) and the put a thin piece of plasticard over the top of it, glued onto the model.

There is no way even a small piece of plasticard could be pulled off from the strength of a magnet.

What you think? Ignore paint, this is test model.

Looks awesome, kepp it up!

Do you really need to fill the gap? I'm pretty sure the bike will stay on the top of the rod just fine without the extra magnet.

I agree the WS is a bit too high. Could you cut one of the magnetix to about a 1/3 size and use it?

Seeing that I'm not sold on the visual of the jetbikes on that mag stem I'm going with the 40mm bases. They make the most sense from a gaming standpoint. Lower to ground to take advantage of TLOS of 5th ed 40k. Worst case that the sticks break, left and right, I will use magnet sticks.

What jetbike riders are going to look like. Notice the waist of legs and torsos. I'm going to use greenstuff to make the transfer look better. Adding belt grenades and gear to waist to cover greenstuff. Imagine, people, Imagine.

Riders are going to be painted various combos of black, red, and white. Body gems will be 3 shades of green and 3 shades of blue.

I was planning on doing almost the exact same thing with my bikers. But i might use the Ulthwe heads.

I look forward to seeing your results

Dire Avengers for Warlocks?
Now that's an original idea

Uriels_Flame wrote:I bought finishing nails, clipped the flat part off and just inserted the nail into the models after drilling a same size hole. The magnets are very strong, I don't think they'll come off. The screw is too big. You could find a washer that may fit just inside the base. Then you could just glue it on to the bike. At that size, shouldn't be much of a problem.

I did this with a Carnifex, inserted the mini-magnets into the arm sockets on the torso, and clipped and used flat head tacks (clipped) for the arms. Works pretty dang good.

However, they are certainly not weight supportable for the jetbikes you want to mount. I concur on the 2-magnet idea.

If you go screw method.. check out jewelry aisles at the local craft store for small (mini) screws.

-Porkuslime

I concur also with the 2 magnet idea. Leap-frogging on the carnifex idea, I have 4 carnifexes with 15 pairs of weapons that are completely modular. I tried going with tack heads and other forms but it just wasn't strong enough, and that was just for a venom cannon... I say spend the extra money, do the extra work, and be secure and not have to worry about anything else.

floppy wrote:Dire Avengers for Warlocks?
Now that's an original idea

I have the 20 metal warlocks. I'd rather use plastic than chop up metal at waist and both arms and do a ton of greenstuff and pinning.

What do you suggest I use?

I agree. Especially with the magnetized bases...

I like the look, though the Warlock weapon arms are quite a bit bigger than the guardian ones.

Might make people wonder what those Warlocks do on their day off.

Aren't they all female though?

Uriels_Flame wrote:I like the look, though the Warlock weapon arms are quite a bit bigger than the guardian ones.

Might make people wonder what those Warlocks do on their day off.

Chucking the spear builds up the arms. Damn, I didn't notice that til now.

My thought for Warlocks......

Sword in hand will be Destructors, Shurken pistol in hand will be Enhance, and flag/banner on back will be for Embolden. Simple and easy.

Got some pics of test painted bike on cell phone. I think this will work.....

I'm sure you can be a little more imaginative with the warlocks though, right?

I mean, WYSIWYG... And I see DA on bikes.
There are gonna be a bunch of opponents out there who are going to be confused in regards to the fact you have identical models with two different names.

You're even using stock weapons from the DA sprue.

I know making Jbike Warlocks is an arse (I have 1.5 of them), but a properly converted jbike 'lock is a thing to behold.

Besides, there was a guy on Dakka recently who mentioned he might be casting a selling some "mounted futuristic elves", so look out for him.

Say, anyone have a link to that thread, I can't find it.

@ Tek

I want to do this project strictly in plastic. My options as to what bits I can use are very limited.

Sure, I'm using the DA bits. The paint scheme is going to be different. Far as I know DA's can't be on bikes and anyone mistaking them for DA's will be sadly wrong.

I do have the metal warlocks, but doing all the cutting and repinning with no possibility of error is not of interest to me. On top of that, I'm still stuck with mostly the same static pose. Sure, I'd like something different, but I'll be happy with the results. And that is what counts.

Exactly... As long as you're happy with it. Who cares if they're only one pose... I just wish they had plastic warlocks. It would open up so many options for EVERYTHING.

Better pictures of test model for my jetbikes

I bought this bike used from some guy. It was primed ultramarine blue and was in terrible condition. I think it was rescued. Saim Hann Icon is hand painted.

53 more to go........ugh

Love the paint scheme! Keep going and show us some more

punkisntdeadyet wrote:Love the paint scheme! Keep going and show us some more

Yes, it turned out well.

I scrapped the magnet bases. I like the 40mm bases better. Will be adding static grass, soon. I eyed up that Warlock again and discussed with my buddies. I not even going to bother with it. Far too much work for the limited pose of metal fig.

I came across 11 female guardian torsos. So 11 of 24 guardian jetbikes will have boobied riders. That is pure win.

Went through the FLGS bits boxes that came out of hiding and found 6 banshee arms. So I will have some variety amongst Warlocks.

Friday's side project. 6 Eldar objective markers. These are before paint. I will update finished pieces within 24 hours.

My FLGS is sponsoring Painting Night. These little gems and my jetbike riders are going to get some attention.

I like the DA on bikes as warlocks, going to be doing it at somepoint myself.

Now, the actual warlock models on bikes...something about jet engines and flowing robes just doesnt work for me...

Xenith wrote:I like the DA on bikes as warlocks, going to be doing it at somepoint myself.

Now, the actual warlock models on bikes...something about jet engines and flowing robes just doesnt work for me...

Sure, the metal warlocks would look real nice on bikes. The kick to nuts is the amount of work to achieve a conversion. I challenge anyone to cut up and whittle down the warlock from picture below, transfer to bike and make look good. Pay attention to neck and left shoulder area. I will get view of back later.

What I'm going with via cellphone pic....