Tyranid Warrior Magnetization Guide
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Magnetization requires extra effort during assembly, but gives you the flexibility to use a model with any of its equipment and be future-proofed against Warhammer 40K rules changes.
In this guide I demonstrate how to magnetize a Tyranid Warrior with the Boneswords, Scything Talons, and Venom Cannon options. The same principles will apply to any other melee weapon, and can be extrapolated to larger models like Hive Tyrants and Carnifexes.
My recommended magnet sizes are 3mm x 2mm and 3mm x 1mm neodymium disc magnets, in the N48-N52 strength range. For monstrous creatures, 5mm x 2mm are perfect for arms and arm sockets.
Be sure to buy your magnets from a reputable source. Some Chinese manufacturers misrepresent the strength of their magnets, so they may be labeled N52 but are actually significantly weaker. I get mine from JC Magnetics. Two other good stores are K&J Magnetics and Frenergy Magnets.
You are really giving relevant and interesting advices on painting and stuff like this. keep it up you really are different
Awesome tutorial. Thanks
You literally read my mind I am getting ready to start a process of new tyranid creatures that I haven't magnetized and would like to and was like oh man I wish you would make a video on how to magnetize tyranid parts and it just so happened my Warriors came first LOL you are a godsend
Magneto can already defeat 99% of Warhammer now you're letting him break the bugs too?
Nice guide! I'm currently magnetizing my guns with both arms glued together but I like the idea of magnetizing the joint as well; I'll have to give that a shot.
I tried it that way at first, but got real nervous about having to bend the arms and scrape them on the torso to put them on and take them off- this way is significantly more work for sure, but means no risk of scraped paint or breakage.
This is superb. Just what I was looking for. I've seen your stuff over on r/tyranids and honestly you are such a saint to the community. One quick question. What do you use to drill itself? I know you use the 3mm bit but are you holding some kind of grip and twisting? Is that all the force needed?
It's a $10 pin vise from Amazon. Basically it's just a simple chuck that holds the drill bit in place, and can spin independently of the handle. This lets you hold the handle firmly in your palm, and spin the bit with your thumb and forefinger. Plastic is soft, so with a decent bit it goes quickly.
i magnetize my models, but there are almost no videos about it. gotta learn from my own mistakes. Really glad that you made this one. brilliant.
Thanks for the vid, I'm working on my first 40k army and I'm choosing tyranids and having the ability to switch out weapons is great for tweaking an army.
@CatgutPainting, what type of putty did you use?? Thanks!
It's just ordinary Kneadatite, AKA Green Stuff.
Thanks for this nice video
GW should make the parts switch-able instead of dreaming people will buy several boxes for different weapons
This is so much more in-depth than other videos this will help with the boxes I am getting for Christmas
Thank you,
2mmx2mm or 2x1mm magnets will be enough ?
introduced into the arms rather than cutting ?
As I printed mine I was able to manipulate the models and parts digitally, but this advice is valuable nonetheless in terms of how to secure the magnets in various locations with what and how to use stuff relating to that.
Maybe no one reads this after 3years, but if you work with CA superglue you can make your life much easier by using activator. It cures the glue in a blink of an eye. But use it in good ventilated area or in mask, because it is a very aggressive chemical. I hope I can help someone.
Man, never have i clicked so fast for a video before haha! YES!
Your videos are awesome. Not only you make incredible designs but you share them with us. Thank you.
I have magnetized a box of warriors and the results have been pretty good so far. But I'm having some issues with the smaller weapons, like the deathspitter and the devourers. Do you follow the same steps as with the bigger weapons? I'm afraid of breaking the support arm, as it being tighter it seems that the 3 mm drill bit will tear it (doesn't seem like a 3mm by 1mm magnet will feet inside the supporting arm either).
Thank you for your support, and keep up the good work.
Yes, I follow the same steps. It can definitely be tricky to drill into the support arms of the Deathspitters- if I mess it up, I usually just slice a millimeter off the end of the connector, glue my magnet to it, and then wrap the magnet in a bit of putty, just like I do on the arm joints. For the Devourers, I don't think it's even possible to drill into the support arm- I'd just glue a magnet to it, smooth out the join with putty, and call it a day.
Love the guide dude! when you mention 'putty' in this is it a specific type? as a new hobbyist im lost haha.
What kind of putty did he use for this? Anybody know?
Never ever stop making videos. I love your paint schemes, your general approach to the hobby and your professional looking videos
Great video. Just having a plan going into this is going to save me lots of time. Thanks for this.
What kind of putty do you use?
This is the best magnetization video I watched, thanks!
Nice 🍻
if you go off of the views... you can argue that you have helped magnetize almost 100K Tyranid Warriors. Synaptic Link achieved
Also thanks for the video man!
It's Kneadatite aka Green Stuff.
Question: can 3x1 be used for all the magnetising on warriors instead of just weapons to save on buying 2 magnet types?
Really helpful video, thanks brother
I tried this today but I had issues when I drilled all the way through and put the greenstuff inside . The magnets pulled together and squished the greenstuff
So I tried again on another torso but not drilling all the way through just drilling almost through so the magnet sits just below the top of the socket.
I also magnetized all the non bonesword melee weapons for 3 warriors and spinefists for 3 and will now in the morning do the boneswords and the two handed ranged weapons for 3. I am happy Gw gives you a 4th torso for a prime (will be my kill teams leader) so I can toss the one I drilled through and messed up.
Catgut, u dont know how much i love you buddy.
Now we just need the rest of the magnetization tutorials for carnifex, tervigon-tirano... ( =D)
Thank you! I was fretting over what was the best load out, but now I can just keep it all :)
On another note, how do you store your bits? I know a lot of folks mag their bits, but I always them or can’t find a nice solution for storage. Thanks!
do you have any info more advice for the deathspitters? not sure what im hoping to hear, but most of my attempts have ended misshapen, just about connecting but by the edges and leaving an obvious open space
I chose the hard path to cut old hard drive magnets. lol. Yay for reusing...but it is much easier to do what you did. Great video guide.
ok what am I doing wrong? I seem to have the same drill as you, I specifically bought it for this but I cant get it to drill through the warrior? The drill bit seems to keep slipping no matter how tightly I screwed it onto the drill
Good shit, real effort put into these videos with no bullshit.
Thank you soooooo much. Starting a tyranids army and I will be doing this to all them.
I wish I had seen that before glueing my warriors together! But I have 4 carnifex to get to, will be fully magnetising those! Are slightly larger magnets better for carnifex?
The 5x2s are perfect for the arms and arm sockets. I used 3x2s for the heads, carapaces, and tail weapons.
Would this also apply to Hive Tyrants?
@@WilliamSun1992 Yep! The arms and sockets are the same size.
@@CatgutPainting great!! hoping you get around doing a magnetizing tutorial on bigger tyranids like hive tyrant soon!!!
Doing this as this video came up in my feed. Cool.
I don't play the 40K tabletop, but this is soooo satisfying to watch
thanks, this was very helpful!
This channel is gonna be big. Here before 6k
Great content, thankyou!
Nice man, I did this fo many of mine a few years ago.. annnnd kinda forgot what I did. Good timing it showed up in my feed. Love the videos man, thanks for posting.
Thank you for the vid. Wanted to magnetize my for Warriors for quite some time. Now I know, how to do it.
Thank you so much, seriously your videos are wonderful.
Nice video. Straight forward and informative. Great job
In a few days I'm gonna get new models to hopefully try this on
Nice man, I did this fo many of mine a few years ago.. annnnd kinda forgot what I did. Good timing it showed up in my feed. Love the videos man, thanks for posting.
So I spent more time working on my Warriors and I now have 6 Scything talons complete, 6 Rending claws complete, 6 spine fists complete, 7 boneswords complete (thanks to a trade with a friend), 3 lashwhips complete, 3 devourers to the filing stage
1 deathspitter to the filing stage
2 deathspitters cut off the sprue.
And the venom cannon and barbed strangler nothig accomplished. Also 1 torso magnetized and 2 awaiting magnets
I know I will probably never run spinefists but I wanted to magnetize and paint every single option the kit would allow. I also acquired a seventh bone sword from a friend because currently for kill team most people run two Warriors with boneswords plus bonesword and lashwhip and a heavy gunner Warrior with venom Cannon or Barbed strangler plus lashwhip and bonesword which means I need three boneswords for each melee warrior and one bonesword for the Gunner for a total of seven bonesword
Good Evening Mr CatgutPâinting. ¿Have you magneticied bigger models than the carnifex? I would want to ask you the appropiate size to magnetize the arms of a tyranofex (Wich are quite heavy).
Hey there. Yup, I have magnetized a Tyrannofex, and used the same 5x2mm magnets as on Carnifexes. It's perfect for the Fleshborer Hives and can manage on the Acid Spray, but is a little bit weak for the Rupture Cannon- however, the Acid Spray and Rupture Cannon can both touch the base while remaining parallel to the ground, so they stay in place that way. The arm slots aren't much bigger than on smaller creatures so you /might/ be able to do 6x3mm, but no bigger.
@@CatgutPainting using ir for both the sockets and the arm, right?
@@galan8115 Yep! And to connect the arms to one another, I used 3x2mm magnets.
@@CatgutPainting Thank youy Catgut :D.
So far I have fully magnetized death watch kill team, GSC neophytes and other alien hybrids, chaos marines and orks. I don't recall if the connecting parts were rounded or flat but I never cut away plastic and used putty. Why didn't you just drill a hole and put a magnet in it? Is it to have full control on the angle?
That's what I would prefer to do, and initially did on my Warriors. However, in this case the magnet is almost the same size as the limb. That means if the drill is at all off-center or goes in at an angle, it tends to get 'pulled' to the outer surface and then breaks out the side of the limb. At that point it's very hard to re-drill centered, so slicing off the joint as in this video is the only recourse. If you used 2mm magnets on Warrior limbs then just drilling would work fine, but I tend to prefer the strength of the larger magnets.
@CatgutPainting,
What brands of glue do you use?
We've always used $2 store 'industrial grade' super glue which works wonders at sticking everything together and you get 7 tubes for $2 (Aud) so bargain, but when doing actual precision work, the correct plastic and super glues are needed, and I'd rather see what non-GW based employees use brand wise. Great videos, really inspired by this to see about magnetising my rogue trader and 2nd edition Tyranid Warriors.
For plastic, I use Testor's plastic cement. For everything else, I use 'The Original Super Glue', mostly because it's the cheapest stuff I can find. I prefer the thin, runny superglue over thicker glues, and I particularly dislike gel superglue, but beyond that I'm not picky on brand.
would 3x1/5x1mm magnets work? those are the only ones i can find apart from the armypainter ones that dont specify thickness only width
Yes, but of course they won't be quite as strong. I get my magnets on eBay, have you checked there?
@@CatgutPainting wow that was a fast answer, no i hadnt thought to check ebay but on second glance the armypainter ones are n52 and i can get them alongside the models while other 3x2's are n42 so i think i'll go with the AP ones. thanks for the help man and keep up the good content!
Your tutorials made me pick up the Battleforce box, and want to play 40k more. Well done.
Very nice work!
This is so very helpful and doesn't look all that difficult. I would have never thought about drilling completely through. You are a saint.
Could you also make one for Hive Tyrants since their wings are much heavier. (also any chance you could make a video on how to make a 3rd socket on tyrants so its possible to have wings and both weapons shown?
Hey there, thanks for the praise. For Hive Tyrants, I might get to that eventually. My one Hive Tyrant is actually an old Forge World model, so it's a little different from the modern ones. I did run into issues with the wings being too heavy; my solution was to add a pin (a paperclip) to the arm, running parallel to the magnet, and drilling a small hole in the torso for it to slot into. That way the pin bears all the axial stress and the magnet just helps keep the arm securely in place. No idea what I'd do for a third socket.
What bout 2x1mm for warriors? I use them for space marines and got a lot of them left
They'll work, albeit not as strongly, and may have issues holding up the larger guns (particularly Venom Cannons). If you use 2mm magnets, I would suggest slicing about a millimeter off the ball joint, then drilling into the flat surface with a pin vise and 2mm bit to insert the magnet.
Is drilling through the model really necessary? That seems like an area with a high margin for error.
The interior of the Warrior torso is hollow to begin with, so once you drill out the socket on either side you're left with a contiguous hole.
I'd love to see this type of video done for larger creatures like tyrannocytes/sporocysts or maleceptors/toxicrenes
Hello! What is the name of the green glue (clay)?
It is used in many places in your video, but I didn't see the introduction, so I asked
Hi there! Sorry for omitting that detail; it's Kneadatite, also known as Green Stuff. It's a two-part modeling epoxy putty.
@@CatgutPainting Thank you
Hey mate, I have been trying to follow this and I am running into a problem:
I am trying to do this with some space marines, as practice before I move on to attempting this to my Tyranid warriors. But what happens is that I drill a whole in the mini, apply super glue, then the magnet, then I wait for the glue to dry. Then when I attach the arm to the torso the magnates literally rip each other out of the dried super glue. How do I stop this? (I am using the glue I get from the warhammer store itself btw).
Also can you please link to where you get your magnets from? When I google rare earth magnets all I get is something called K&J.
Sounds like it might be bad or expired glue. I'd suggest some normal hardware store superglue and see if it's any different- the glue should be a lot stronger than the magnets.
Oh, and I get mine on eBay, but K&J is legitimate too. Search for neodymium n52 magnets.
@@CatgutPainting Okay thanks mate! I'll try to get a different more serious super glue then.
One other question, on K&J the magnets are shown in inches rather than mm. I've been trying to figure out how to do the conversion but it is making my head spin. At 0:21 you put in the measurements/sizes for the magnets. Do you know what those are in inches by any chance? (I'm in Canada, maybe that's why the store is showing them to me in inches).
Thank you again for your response.
@@Wesker10000 K&J is in the US, so that's why it's in Imperial units. One inch is 25.4mm, so 1/4" is a hair over 6mm. So, for Warriors, I'd use 1/8" x 1/16" for most of the work, translating to 3.18x1.59mm. Alternatively, these are the exact 3x2mm magnets I use, and the seller has the other sizes I mention as well: www.ebay.com/itm/3mm-x-2mm-Tiny-Neodymium-Disc-Magnets-N50-New-Super-Strong-100-or-500-pcs/312045367151
@@CatgutPainting Thanks mate. Also, what kind of putty is that that you use? I've just tried using regular sticky tact, and it hasn't really worked out.