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I'm new back to the hobby and in order to save money trying to magnetise as many options as possible on my army. My question is has anyone tried using ball magnets on joints to allows better posing? I recently assembled a wraithlord and if I could have done I would have magnetised the ball joints in the shoulders and maybe even the weapon mounts to make them removable. Has anyone else tried this?

Maybe I'm being dense, but wouldn't you then need a corresponding magnetic socket?

 War Drone wrote:
Maybe I'm being dense, but wouldn't you then need a corresponding magnetic socket?

You could also inlay a small piece of metal into the socket. I've only ever used magnetic discs, so I'm not sure how well it would all work.

I have done this with Eldar jetbikes on the flight pole.
A cylinder magnet was fitted into the usual post-hole under the bike, and pushed into an indented hole. This set the polarity to align the ball on the post.
Being a ball, wobbling was a problem. Spinning didn't matter much, but could be a pain.
I was able to push the cylinder into the post-hole far enough to let gravity hold the bike in position.

With a side-mounted ball, like the arms you want to do, I'd make sure there is enough surface contact to hold the arm in place. A long arm is likely to droop.
The shoulders will need enough thickness to hold a disk or concave magnet to connect to the ball.

I don't see why it wouldn't work. Place a couple of bits of ferrous metal at compass points of the joint.

Instaed if using spherical mags, I recommended using Ring mags, it does everything you need as you can pin in the middle to add extra strength to hold up heavy parts, like the arms, or knight torsos.

saw them used recently on an epic scale warhound's weapons / arms.