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So as I've said i got a question for the modeling guru's of the site. I'm looking at building a Chaos Daemons army but id like to be usable for fantasy and 40k which means i need to be able to swap the bases freely. Would it be overly hard to magnetize the bases to be swapped in and out? has anyone found a good way to do this while still getting good quality bases? If so can anyone post some pictures with a few on both bases so i can get an idea?

Thanks ahead of time to anyone able to help out.

You could use cork on your bases and put a pin in all the feet of the models.

Lucarikx

 Lucarikx wrote:
You could use cork on your bases and put a pin in all the feet of the models.

Lucarikx

wouldnt you have to worry about the hole becoming too big and no longer supporting the model tho?

I don't think magnets would be terribly hard, just time consuming. Although if you got strong enough magnets, you could just put them in the feet, and then a thin piece of sheet metal or something under each base.

I'm VERY slowly doing the same thing and here are my thoughts/findings:

1) Core infantry. My approach is to put them onto the round 40K model bases and to then put a coin under the base (in the UK a 1p coin fits well, you can use a metal washer if you want - just make sure it sticks to a magnet).
I'm then going to use magnetic sheet/paper in the base of a series of movement trays to hold the models lightly in place on the table top.
Still experimenting with this as the 0.5 gage paper I bought isn't really strong enough, 0.75 likely will be though by then chances are I might just use plastic boarders around the sheet and not have it resting on a thick plastic base (will have to experiment).
If you use 2p coins (or spare round bases) you can add some 3mm high foam or greenstuff and pad out the space between the bases on the tray just to even things out visually.

2) Most of the rest of the range of models are using larger bases, so its a case of small magnets in each base and lining them up to fit. Typically you'll find one base easily fits ontop of the other. The only exception is the Bloodcrushers, so simply put the model onto a smaller sized base and then have it magnetically fit to either the fantasy or 40K size.


Overall its not complex but it does add time to building things.

The easiest option is to just use round bases. For Fantasy use, put them on movement trays with the base increments marked on the sides.

Yeah, what Insaniak said.
Use or make something like these from Litko.
http://www.litko.net/categories/Movement-Trays/Rank-Trays/
I've seen them from other companies too just can't remember who.

Insaniak has the right idea here.
Round bases work best since from top view, they wont fill a square base.
There is a company that sells movement trays for round bases though, which might be worth a look at.

That would also make it easier to rank up units like bloodletters.