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Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to make movement trays for round bases?

I'm playing orks in an ITC tournament and don't want to lose because of time.

Have you tried sheet steel and magnets?

If you are just trying to make them quick and cheap you could also do paint sticks and reversed MASKING tape.

ittal be ugly AF but it will function.

I have not. Do you know where I can buy a mess of magnets in a hurry?
My original plan was to put washers under all the bases so I can shove them around. With 150 boyz I don't think that'll work.

How much of a hurry.

my way of magnatizing large quantity of models is to get a roll of magnetic tape.


they have them at craft stores and apparently walmarts.

cut squares out,

set them magnet side down to some metal surface that is wide enough for the base, then put a glob of hot glue down onto then quickly press the miniature ontop of that.

it only really works if its the non slot base.

then you can make movement trays with those 50 cent steel flashing squares from the home depot.

get a plyer and bend two corners so you can pick them up and move them around.

if you have more time then i get 3mm x 1.5 to 2mm round neodymium magnets and green stuff them onto the base.

You can put washers on your bases and buy sheet magnets (the bendable stuff like fridge-magnets which you see people put adverts on the sides of their cars). Might work. Still won't work with terrain.

Thats true. though i did get a bunch of those car magnet sheets, they are really weak magnetically so things may fall off.

Home Depot carries neodymium magnets next to the sheet metal in the special projects aisle. Or mine does, anyway.
You might also try craft stores, but hardware stores might be better.

40k used round bases and no trays
WFB used trays and square bases
AoS went from squares to rounds, trays to none

WEW LADS!!! WE FULL CIRCLE NOW BOYZ! lets just put them on square bases.

Thanks for the ideas. I'll swing the hardware store after work today.

Just dont get big neodymium magnets

too strong and you will never get the model off anything metal without breaking it.

I have plenty of experience with Orks and movement trays, both good and bad.

I offer following observations:

1) Most traditional movement trays where the models are aligned in a rectangular grid or in a line, does not work well with 40k. The minute that your boyz enter combat (and they will), you will want to pick them out of the tray for consolidation and pile-in moves.

2) Movement trays bigger than about 80-100 mm in any direction will not play well with many kinds of terrain.

3) Movement trays speed up the movement phase, but it also makes it almost trivial to count the model in a squad, and know what boyz belongs to what mob. This also helps a lot.

4) I don't have any images nearby, but the trays I (sometimes) use looks like five base cutouts arranged in a circle with a rod in the middle for easy handling.

http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/pic/cci5.gif

With these trays a 30-boy blob becomes a six-model squad. And because of the dimensions, whenever one model on a tray is engaged in CC, they can all make attacks. And the outer circle is slightly less than 3", which is the movement distance for both pile-in and consolidate, speeding up these movements substantially.

5) I made my trays from thin MDF sheets glued together, an acrylic rod in the middle (some of them wooden. Acrylic is almost unglueable). And some lead sinks for fishing. Very easy, but I had already weighed down the 25-mm bases, which I think you need to do.

ryzouken wrote:
Home Depot carries neodymium magnets next to the sheet metal in the special projects aisle. Or mine does, anyway.
You might also try craft stores, but hardware stores might be better.

That's where I buy mine

Not sure if they fit but Warlord Games have some trays for three models as part of their "test of honour" game, also Bolt Action has various MDF trays for it that could work, 3-5 models on each is likely all you need

Sarissa Precision war of the rings trays. I use the 10 man trays.
https://www.sarissa-precision.com/War_of_the_Ring/cat1603369_2599173.aspx

Litko also has movement trays in rectangular or odd shaped patterns.

Since I'm in a time crunch, I'm gluing washers onto my bases and making trays with magnetic tape.
Thank y'all for the help!

They're finished!