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Hi,

I'm currently in the process of magnetizing my Leman Russ, but did it a little bit different than the tutorials I saw. therefore I thought I'd share some pictures, if some of you are interested:

First, instead leaving the turret unglued and exchanging the whole weapons mount, I cut the Exterminator mound immediatly behind the turret shield and glued in two magnets. The turret weapons (Exterminator, Battle/Vanquisher, Eradicator) were cut correspondingly and glued on a small plastic piece, which was also cut to size and magnetized. Since I had some spare lascannons left from my heavy weapons teams I glued two together for an Annihilator. I know that usually you should only see the barrel, but I prefered to let it look really big and mean. Also the angled positioning looked kind of cool.


Next I did some work on the accessories, including some from the tank upgrade kit. In the first picture you can see the magnetized headlight and heavy stubber, as well as the corresponding magnets on the turret. For the heavy stubber I placed it in the original mounting of the head light (leftern side, near the hatch), for the headlight on the front of the tank in the right side of the picture.
In the second picture you can see my tank commander (the upper body is from MaxMinis Desert Dweller Tank Commanders set) with magnets in his feet. A small metall disk fit perfectly on the bottom of the turret.
In the third picture you can see the position for the antenna that in my opinion lets it stick out as a command tank.


And finally the accessories together:
1st picture: closed hatch, no upgrades
2nd picture: with HK missile, head light, heavy stubber
3rd picture: open hatch, tank commander and antenna



Hope you like it and that it might help someone.

Some pictures of the final result:
The magnetized weapon options:


The final variants:

Looks great!

Looks good, when did the lemon's turret change shape?

@ Rybrook:
I had the idea to build a Leman Russ variant with twin missile launchers (because I like MLs ) and therefore experimented a bit were to put them. I found they look best on the sites of the turret (see lower left picture), tilted a bit in a diagonal Position
Here is a picture from a different angle:



I built these Little triangular mounts out of some leftover sprue and tried to magnetize it with 2 magnets each, but I failed to position the Magnets in a way, that the MLs would really allign parallel and in the right direction. Then I changed my approach and just drilled a hole in each of the MLs bottoms and glued a small plastic cylinder on the mounts the fit in those holes. Now I can just plug the MLs on these cylinders. And it does not lool too weird without the MLs. Oh and I had to reposition the HKM for that.

Was that the change of turret shape you refered to?

The turret just seems longer,

Here's an picture of a second edition russ

Ah, ok, in this case I seriously don't know. I started building my army only this year, so this was build from a standard Leman Russ box I bought at my local GW shop.

Edit: by the way: I'm currently thinking about including some kind of non-camouflage area just for show, but I don't really like the stripes at the side of the hull you see on usual pics of Leman Russ tanks. I thought about painting on of the "cheeks" on the turret in a bright red or white and paint a number or regiment insignia there. Any opinion on that? It would surely break any serious attempt of camouflage, but it might lool cool.

They changed the turret a few years ago - when it went to multi-gun kit (not just battlecannon option). The new turret is not only longer, lower and a slightly different shape, but the mounting hole for it changed from the old 2E vintage one, too (old turrets don't fit properly without work - FW had to do adaptors for their stuff, too).