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It will take a little bit of converting, but yeah that should be about right.

Well You will get 5 pairs of LC and then 5 sets of TH and SS.

Oh, yeah that works then. I will have two squads of terms with 3 TH/SS and 2 LC. That'll be damn good.

0ldsk00l wrote:I have magnetized my JPs on my assault troopers. I haven't magnetized the normal backpacks yet because I havent had a game where I actually wanted them in a rhino instead of jumping along on their own.

That's exactly what I've run across as well. All my JP's are magnetized (initially for ease of painting, but also with the idea of doing normal backpacks down the road in the back of my mind), but I've never felt the desire to go with "normal" ones.

Vale,

JohnS

Where and what type of magnets did you get cygnnus?

http://www.kjmagnetics.com/products.asp?cat=10

Try these guys, a lot of the right size magnets for cheap!

BTW, right size being 1/16" x 1/32" round.

s1gns wrote:Where and what type of magnets did you get cygnnus?

What FoxPhoenix said.

The one bit of advice I'd add is to have a "master" to use to make sure that you have your magnets on correctly. I used a wooden dowel drilled out to fit a magnet. I used that master to make sure I had all the rest of the magnets in correctly. I also used some other dowels with magnets to hold the jumppacks when I painted/primed them.

Vale,

JohnS

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:BTW, right size being 1/16" x 1/32" round.

Does that actually work well for you? I find them too weak for much of anything. I would want something stronger. I thought about using the 1/8" size, but really I would want something like 3/32" or 5/64".

For a simple termy arm, they should be sufficient. For doing a tank, probably should get the next size up, which is 1/8" i guess. I never done magnetizing but most tutorials for termy arms suggest 1/16", so i dunno for sure if it will be strong enough but for plastic I suspect it would be.

On a scale of 1-5, how difficult is it to magnetize arms and vehicle weapons? What is the process in magnetizing arms and weapons as well?

http://theangelstalon.blogspot.com/2009/04/terminator-weapon-swaps-made-easy-with_9084.html

For the process.

Difficulty I wouldn't know about, I've never done it, myself.

2-3, depending on the part, some extreme cases probubly 4, but basicly, drill a hole the right size make sure it works, and bung the hole in with green stuff(make sure there isnt too much as then it wont work. that is the basic idea, or you can have a shallow hole and just show the magneted,

So how is it coming, s1gns? Get any termies magnetized yet?

I can't say that I have. I've been really busy after school so I haven't had much time. I have vacation and I plan on painting my army as much as possible. I'll buy a box of termies when I'm done with vacation since I'll have money left over. I just wish I had a lot more time to do things. I'm actually going to go play a game with my friends tonight. Wish me luck

I just bought magnets from the link posted above. It was easy to shop and buy. Furthermore, they accept paypal for payment.

I won my match

Good job! Details on the match?

Congrats S1gns. Nice job.

To be honest, it was REALLY boring. I played a FFA with orks/tau/SM. I won by 2 objectives, followed by a 2nd place ork, and a tie for 3rd at 0 objectives between the tau and SM. Only really amazing thing was my friends tau contested the SM players only objective and his fire warriors survived an assault against the SM's Captain and Dreadnought on the final turn. Quite funny.

Ah well, boring or not, add +1 notch to your win belt!

So what kind of list did the ork player field? Last time I played orks was a few weeks ago with a vanilla SM list and I got stomped by a massive horde (130 models in his 1500 pt list). How did you fend them off?

We played 750 points per army. The ork had 30 shoota boyz (Nob, PK, BP, 3 Rokkit Launchas) 3 Deffkoptas, 5 Warbikers, 2 Big Mek's (KFF) and a warbuggy (for extra points) He bum rushed the tau. The other SM bum rushed the other side of the tau army. I walked my way into 2 objectives and held them all game. It was boring... The ork would've steam rolled me, but turn 6 came around and ended the game. He had his entire squad of boys practically, and his 2 hq's and Koptas. I would've lost my dread easily imo. I got lucky that they all went for my friends tau though haha. Either way, a win is a win.

I had a short game the other night, against vanilla SM, and put together a couple of tips on the subject on my blog, if anybody's interested.

http://foxphoenix40k.blogspot.com/2009/04/lets-talk-tactics-1-ba-vs-sm_07.html

I played against my friends tau tonight. 1000 pts a piece. I steam rolled him Basically assaulted everything and romped him. He played silly and such. (I played Vanilla SM because I forgot my codex @ home.)

Ah, for smaller games sometimes vanilla is better anyway. It is too hard to make the DC worth it in games less than 1000 points, because the DC unit is only 2-3 free, and you have to buy the rest. That gets expensive.

True, i played with corbulo and 4 DC together. Worked like a charm.


P.S. I FINALLY STARTED PAINTING SOME OF MY MINI'S. ALMOST HAVE MY TERMINATOR SQUAD COMPLETED!!! WOOHOO

Awesome! I anxiously await the pics.

Some tips on photography that I picked up:

Do NOT use flash

DO use the macro function (looks like a little flower on most cameras)

Don't zoom in too much or macro won't work.

That should be enough to get you started, so your first pics don't look as bad as mine did... lol.

My gf comes home from vacation on friday. Maybe then I'll upload a photo and get some comments.

I'll look forward to it, then.

Sadly, my own BA will get a little neglected from this week on. Off to the workforce I go! No more college for me, my semester ended last week and I can't afford to go another semester ('cuz my wife is pregnant AGAIN. Doh!).

I still got a lot to do, so hopefully I can get in a few models a week or so.