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Has anyone used using spherical magnets+Bearing?


Im considering getting some for when I do my bikes.

My theory is to have a ball bearing drilled into the bottom of bike/vehicle and have a spherical magnet at the and of the stand so the model can be made in cool poses. But does it work/look cool?

 Nevelon wrote:
One issue is going to be lack of friction and torque. So you either need crazy strong magnets, or things are going to droop.

For my ball/socket modern bikes I just filled the socket with green stuff and a disk magnet, and use the same basic stem with a magnet on top as my old bikes.

I was thinking of investing in some high grade N52 magnets for this job.
Seen GSW selling some so im curious.

http://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/125-rotation-magnets-n52

These look interesting.
From what I can see its standard disk magnet with a 3.5mm+ diamiter and then a spherical magnet.
The eldar tanks are quite heavy so will probably need the bggest one. I dont play x-wing so dont know how those compare to 40k scale wise.