hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle and in this video i would like to tell you why you
should not magnetize your models or should you this video was made possible in part thanks to
viewers like you thank you to magnetize or not to magnetize that is the question whether it is
nobler to suffer the gluing and drilling of tiny magnets or to take stock against a sea
of wasted hobby dollars guys i'm in two minds about magnetization on the one hand it's awesome
it's a uniquely miniature war game thing that allows you to give your models any loadout you
want and save money while doing it but on the other hand it's difficult tedious and prone
to apathy so this video is really going to be two separate videos one where i gush about the
pros of the magnet and one where i complain and whine about why you maybe don't need to bother
magnets how do they work i sure don't know but i do know how to use them
magnets are a wargamer's best friend can't decide between a sword and shield or the claws
you don't have to don't want to look up what's a good gun for sentinels
don't bother bring them all if you magnetize a kit right you might never have to buy it ever again
i was a little late to the magnets game i couldn't really imagine taking a drill to my microscopic
and i could never seem to find the right sizes in stores
but now i'm a few years older a few years wiser and a few days sober so now i can give you the
scoop on magnets if you want magnets there's only one place to go k and j magnetics i've
been ordering from them for years and have never received anything less than perfection
they have everything and anything you could want and they have no minimum order with fast shipping
i have bought a lot of magnets over the years and can tell you the sizes i use most in my models
for infantry models like space marines and all other special weapons i use 1.5 millimeter magnets
for vehicle weapons like heavy weapons for land speeders i use three millimeter by 1.5 millimeter
magnets and i use six millimeter by 1.5 millimeter magnets for large and in charge connections like
these imperial night weapons there are also some other oddities worth mentioning like these ring
magnets 6.3 millimeter with a three millimeter hole perfect for x-wing miniatures or these three
millimeter square magnets which blend in nicely on mechanical models when you don't want to bother
drilling holes for attaching your magnets the best way is to use a pin vise and a nice sharp bit
this should get you through all your small magnets like your 1.5 or 3 millimeters but
you'll run into larger sizes as well i've heard different people say that you should or should
not work with a dremel tool for drilling holes but i've found a dremel works just fine you just have
to be careful the fast rpm can heat up and melt the plastic if you're not careful enough so make
sure you work slow and let the plastic cool what i would caution against is using a power drill
avoid this for a lot of reasons first unlike the dremel the power drill is a torque machine
there is a reason this can screw down three inch deck screws without skipping a beat it's all fun
and games until the bit bites down into the plastic yanks the model out of your hand and
cuts your fingers for good measure now with that out of the way let me show off some of my pride
and joys of magnetization these jean sealer cult goliath rock grinders are completely magnetized
and you never know what to look at them all the magnets are strong and hidden the mining laser can
be swapped out for the truck's auto cannon and the rock grinding scoop is completely removable with
some clever hiding of some beefy magnets another piece i'm quite proud of are the space marine
centurions they are still grey plastic right now in fact i have three more still on sprue
for shame i will get around to painting them one of these decades anyhow about magnetization
every arm weapon option is magnetized and the close combat weapons are magnetized as well
all in all that's a lot of magnetized parts i know these are a bit of a controversial
kit but i think they are www.thebomb.com and last but not least my land raider crusader
and guys this is what magnets are really meant for i don't have the room or the cash to own
three or four different land raiders so i made myself an all-in-one with the power of magnets
every part is magnetized the sponsons the crew gun the doors even this cathedral
is magnetized for travel seeing all these parts laid out reminds me of the famous space marine
donning terminator armor painting this piece by artist david gallagher is the epitome of 40k
well i hope i gave you some tips and insight into magnetization i wish i
could show you how to magnetize but there's no one-size-fits-all answer it all depends on the
model magnet strength required the material and necessity and the painting so go forth
procure some plastic and magnets and turn your static soldiers into variable swiss army knives
guys it may not seem like it but i can be a real lazy hobbyist it may seem like i'm
a hobby hero from my videos painting every day on stream or showing off my armies but
sometimes the hobby can be a real slog and magnets can make it even worse
the thing about magnets is that it adds a lot more building time and painting time to your projects
for example look at these sentinels they are great probably one of my favorite projects i built and
painted all three at the same time and magnetized them to be able to take all of the options but
when it came time to paint i only painted the one loadout i wanted to take in an upcoming game
and put the rest into my bit spin if i had had a little more resolve i would have painted all
of these maybe one day i'll get around to it but painting a dozen tiny guns that will live in a
little baggie almost all of the time does not give me the same endorphin rush as buying and painting
games workshop's latest hotness for me that's one of the two big reasons why i don't magnetize
all my models it about doubles the workload for both modeling and painting the reason i paint
models is to play with them and sometimes it just doesn't make sense to spend all that extra time
magnetizing all the weapons call me a fool call me lazy but just like i wouldn't paint every rank and
file infantry model to character standard i am not going to magnetize every possible option for every
single mini a lot of models have a lot of options but if you think about it you can rule some out
for example i love plasma it's a near suicidal weapon that a lot of space marine characters
can take i know me i know my playstyle i will always take it no need to magnetize the other
seven options and magnetization is easy enough to do if you play space marines but a lot of
armies basically all other armies other than space marines are really difficult to magnetize
shout out to genestealer cult players your tiny metamorph hybrids have to choose between
two ranged weapons and four combat weapons per guy that's six weapons per guy if you
have 10 in your army that's 60 little weapons you have to magnetize and paint
are you really earning back that time investment it's really easy to just tell your opponent
oh by the way these guys are flamers and then get to gaming the other problem for me and this might
just be a me problem although i'm sure it's not is that i am not an organized person never have been
and never going to be i'm clumsy i drop stuff and i don't remember why i walked into a room i know
for a fact i cannot be trusted to keep track of dozens of impossibly tiny weapons i am a weekend
warrior who tosses everything into an empty amazon box at the end of a hard night of gaming and that
box isn't open again until two weeks later and i know a lot of war gamers are just like me
i have either lost or just never finished most of my magnetizations some are built
but the weapons i don't take are still awaiting paint in the cold dark recesses of my bit spin
another reason i don't magnetize the little guys very much is i want a big space marine army
it's so awesome to see the whole gang laid out but it's rare i get to bring all my models in a game
but i still want them for the collection so for me modeling and painting the different weapon
options separately scratches that collecting itch they look great in a display case and i
still have the option for using them in games and they display way better as 24 cool dudes
than 4 dudes and 24 arms for vehicles it's a much easier ask to magnetize the kits are
more expensive and it's easier to hide magnets but if you start magnetizing you are obligated
to keep magnetizing that kit the same way as you acquire more or you get my dreadnought collection
ah these poor bastards all magnetized up and no place to go some are perfect like this lad
this one is just glued i can kind of swap out this weapon although none of them are painted
and the metal ones are magnetized up like the plastic ones and are way too small to
hold up the heavy arms you live and learn i guess but if i had just never magnetized
i probably could have just built one of each loadout and saved myself the trouble
let's finish off by looking at my shame unfinished unpainted or lost magnet jobs
my goliath rock grinders perfection but i lost all the mining weapons except for the laser
white metal venerable dreadnought never painted the right arm because i'm lazy
space marine gunners love these guys lost all the weapons company veterans magnets in
but never finished are these guys even in the game anymore necron stalkers never finished
or learned the difference between the guns necron spiders magnetized sort of finished but unpainted
this space marine captain magnetized primed but never finished wow that list hurt a little bit
to write maybe i'll use that as a wake-up call to actually finish some of these guys although the
new necron doom stalker looks hella dope so maybe i'll just work on that instead so in conclusion
it might seem like i'm sending you mixed signals and that's because i am it's just not as simple as
always magnetize or never magnetize for vehicles it's an easy yes for infantry you have to make
your own judgment call but as always i hope you enjoyed this video and thanks for watching