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Okay, so Ive been working on this ridiculous Ork Rok undertaking, and I have finally succumbed to the want to magnetize something. I know it can be done on a micro scale to as little as a marine arm, and it can handle even big baddies like a Trygon or Defiler. I've always glued my minatures down where I was instructed most the time, yet its time for interchangeability.

The target is a prolly completed 3 to 5 lb Ork rok, and the connected is a crade in the terrain base. Objects are made of blue foam. I need technique advice here!

This is the target WIP: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/375993.page

What can we do to make this thing stick, but not terrorize the structure?

What exactly do you want to magnetize? I don't see anything there that needs it (P.S. awesome work there)

Magnets are not really feasible there.

The magnets will be stronger than most of the adhesives you can use to hold them to the foam, and all you'll end up doing is ripping the magnets out when you try to separate them.

you are looking youre looking at pinning mate, drill holes out, reinforce with piping of somesort, and then a guage of pin or rod that fits into the socket. But.. you may have to cause extensive damage to go back and 'skeletalize' it

Curses... I figured the magnets would rip the foam right off... hmm maybe hotglue covering them? Bah, so I'll have to so some pinning? I want the Rok to stay mobile. It's one of it's coolest features. If I'm going to have an effective socket method stabilizing the Rok, it must not be garring to the eyes when its off the base. The Rok as it stands sits very well on the base, and when its in its intended position it doesnt rock or sway. Heh. I mean models can be placed on it without any shaking of the piece itself. I would like the know that its locked in there and wont shift from that position if its bumped. Maybe a few smaller magnets?

one or two small maganets might help lock it, but if you pin it in three or four places, it should stay stable. The trick would be you might have to create some sort of cross-pins (so that you have pins going along two axes, or two different directions so both counteract any lack of stablity presented by the other pin), that slide in after the first pins have been secured. You would have to decorate the outside of the pin as some sort of rock that slots into the offending cavity, and this too can be magnetized, albeit, lightly