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Hi All

I'm sure this has been covered a million times before, but can someone please give me a basic tutorial in magnetising or at least link me some threads. I will mostly be magnetising planes for my elysian army i have planned, though i will probably start doing sentinels too and parts of my current dark angels army once i figure it out. I mostly want to know what size magnets i should use, how to apply them and how to hide/embed them into models as well as general tips so i don't ruin my models.

Thanks in advance


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just realized this was in the wrong place. Could the admins please move this?

What's been said a million times is, "Google is your friend.".
You would have actually had to type less to do the search than starting this thread cost you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9aN_LHQmwA

One tip I do is take a sharpie and black out one side of the magnet. Then let it dry and drop it in a cup. Then Repeat until all the magnets in a strip are done. Helps emmensly when you are ready to glue and can match a non marked side to a marked one. Really helps with remembering polarity when marked side is up so you put shiny side down on the other piece. Hope that made sense and helped

thanks conker, those little things can help and even though the first response was a bit aggresive thanks for that too

It partly depends on the models that you want to magnetize. Peter is fairly easy to do in my book. Resin is a bit of a pain.