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Hey all,

I've got the new Start Collecting! Slaves to Darkness kit and I was surprised that tete are no weapon options.

On both the warriors and knights, I'd, ideally, like to do some magnetizing to give me weapon options.

In most cases, there is not a nice hidden shoulder joint, or pre-split wrist joint, to magnetize. I think I'm going to have to make my own cut at the wrist or elbow.

The catch is, I need to use both sides of the cut (as I still want to be able to use the original weapon) so I can't mangle the removed part and I don't want to saw because that removes material.


My current plan (chsos knight with lance for example) is to:
1.) Find the best place to separate the weapon from the body (let's assume elbow for now)
2.) Careful cut the joint with an exacto knife to not remove any material at the joint
3.) Drill and magnetize both parts
4.) Vaseline the body side of the joint, stick it back together, and the greenstuff the joint to fix any gaps (green stuff should stick to the weapon side)
5.) Build the alternate weapon out of old chaos warrior hand weapon and spare space marine arm
6.) Magnetize and greenstuff it in the same way

So, any advice? I did some practice cutting on some spare arms and it seemed to go ok.

I found lots of tutorials on "easy" magnetizing but none on something like this where I need to cut and reuse both sides.

Personally, I'd go for the saw. Chopping with a blade tends to distort surrounding material, causing more damage than a small amount of stock removal in a nice, straight line. Something has to give way to make room for that blade, after all. Razor saws aren't expensive, if you don't already have one, and have very fine and narrowly set teeth on thin plates. The kerf on even a basic one from a craft store or Amazon cheapies is still less than a millimeter.

I've just always found it easier and cleaner to saw. If 1/4 or 1/2 a millimeter makes a difference to look or fitment (it rarely does, in my experience), I just add a shim of styrene sheet (0.010" and 0.020" respectively) with plastic solvent cement and sand it to fit. Faster and less fiddly than trying to resculpt the area, since I generally plan cuts at the edge of details or on smooth shapes. I generally only break out the epoxy putty when I'm modifying more than one angle, which necessitates leaving significant gaps.

Of course, if your test pieces turned out well, there's no harm in continuing to do what you're doing. That's just the only advice I have to give and it's served me well, thus far.

Thank you! I have a hobby saw otw. I'll run some tests with it.

Some of the arms have no good place to cut. That's where I'm thinking some greenstuff work may be required.

I'll have to get some of that styrene sheet too

Drilling and greenstuffing is usually the best way to magnetize things, or atleast that's what I've heard since I don't have much personal experience magnetizing things.