These tutorials are wonderful. Getting the most bang for your buck and preventing the need to buy bultiple boxes of the same unit! Great work!

what magnets did you use for all the parts?

Could you give us the exakt Amazon link for the parts you used?

As a new Tyranid player, I'm super happy KZbin recommended this video

For tight spaces like the weapon pegs that you had removed, you can use a sewing needle or a thumb tack and the head of your clippers to hammer a pitot hole into the plastic. I prefer a needle, but I've gotten them stuck to the point where I've needed to use pliers to remove them because my fingers were too damp to get a grip on such a narrow object.

Just glue the bits to it I did it to my death dread

Incredible job I want to do this

Why not make a cyllinder of Milliput from one hole to the other? Then you don't have to fill the whole interior.

Here's a tip for you. When your first magnet is in place and you are aligning the parts to find the second magnet's place, put a small dot of paint in the center of the magnet to put the parts together. This should leave a dot of paint on the other part right where your magnet needs to go.

This is one of those rare moments where i see a god tieir simple tip that changes the way i build stuff.. i've been contemplating magnetizing some of my walkers with ball and socket joints by using a pen + positioning + cutting and sanding accordingly but this paint based method is superior, Should of probally occured to me considering ive been pinning using the dot of paint trick for years... i've been building with a mindset of magnetiization so im actually filling hollow voids with putty at the same time i glue and pose the legs/main body together. This tip will be added to that method.

Could you tell me which size of magnet you use for tyraanofex and hive tyrant. I trying to do this project too.

Thanks, a great video, don't give up, WH40K community supports you

Super under rated video. Helping me a ton with this new onslaught swarm that came out last week!

thanks I think I will buy an extra body for the winged version. it will be simpler

My man what the fuck is playing on your TV lmfao

Hi, looking to do one of these as a commission and was wondering what size magnets you use

I was wondering how I would mag this thing, great tutorial 😊

Hello whats size of magnets do you use? Arms 7x3 Body 3x2 Head 3x1 ?????? Thanks

Where did you buy your magnets from? Im looking to magnetize all my nids from that same box

Thought this is relevant here so I have linked my video for magnetising Deffkoptas. Hope you don't mind! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqnTaax7l7mbfKssi=6WtjcfRwXM6ZybCv

Thanks for the info. After seeing the effort. I think am going to just make the small joint part out of milliput. So I can have extras to glue to the guns, and skip putting magnets into the guns.

Nice! Thanks for being my guinea pig

Thanks for the video! Just magnetised mine. I did have a couple issues though. Silly me filled the body with sprue pieces.. Worked great until I used a pipette to squirt glue in there... The really thin tamiya stuff. Thought it was going well until it started dripping out of his groin and stuff... Then a day later I realised his leg sockets had melted and gone soft, so badly that he faceplanted with his legs still stuck to the base LOL. But I've since sorted it, a bit of cutting, 3d printing new ball and socket joings, filling holes with milliput etc.. Hopefully he's fixed now lol. If you're going to fill the body with sprues, use the thick glue sparingly and let it dry bit by bit. Or even better. Fill his body when putting his body together.

Hi. What's the exact size of the magnets on the wings? Thank you for these awesome video!

really helpful, thanks a lot! I had already built the torso and magnetised a head into it before searching... glad I did and no will order some bigger magnets for the wings! :D

Thanks bro i will do it on my Tervigon

Great video. a tip that could be helpfull i some cases, most magnets today don't really need you to drill. They are strong enough to attract even through plastic. Best way to know is to glue a magnet to the inside plastic and another to the arm as an example, and see if its strong enough. I have done this to many of my kits, like predator tanks, imperial knigts etc, without having to drill much or at all. For the armjoint and other places you would probably need to drill in any case for the estetics or placement, but for the tyrranofex arms and head, i have not drilled in the actual body. And in the heads i uses a thin metal "plate" inside the head instead of a magnet. This all depends on the magnets though.

Pretty impressive. I started nids with 10th edition and I have a tyrant coming. I thought about just magnetizing the wings for the regular walking tyrant and call it good but I may consider this.

Bastardo! I ordered from GW and mine isn't here yet because clearly you've stolen it.

Noice, looks like a dope set

Much easier to add the magnets inside the dread before you glue it together. Learned this when doing guns on Archecopter.

Super helpful, as I'm about to magnetise a Deff Dread for a friend of mine! The only thing I think I'll do differently is cutting and magnetising the gun mount balls at the same time as the lower arms in part 1. They seem very much the same process if done at the same time. Again, thank you so much, never considered using putty in the body!

I just picked up the Combat Patrol box and my deff dread is the last one I need to put together, so I am looking at magnetizing. Since I haven't assembled it yet, do you think it would be easier to do before it is all assembled? I was thinking maybe cut down a some pieces of sprue glue them in on the inside and then pack miliput behind the sockets then go with the steps there. Would that be enough support for the magnet or would packing it fulll be a better route to go?

What if you drill holes on one side of the Deff Dread and then filled it with epoxy? Might have to partial fill the small hole, wait for it to dry and then fill it to the big hole. I see there is a green stuff acrylic model filler. But idk which method is cheaper

Another very helpful video, thanks mate

hi saw in the first video you were having troubles with the arms. do you know what strength of magnets you used? I'm getting n52 rare earth magnets theyre the best i could find.

Thanks for posting these videos. Very helpful to see somebody go through the process before I go to town on my models.

Just the video I was looking for. If you could add a section at the beginning of your videos listing the number of magnets and tools you use etc, that would be boss.

armored chicken walker FTW! nice work dood keep it up!

That was awesome Really appreciate this, there's so many ways to fuck this up I wouldn't have thought of on the first try. I'm sure I would have accidentally glued in backwards instead of double checking the polarity is correct. Proppa blood axe finkin went into dis build here boss, uze ar da mekboy ov magnets!

WAIT WTF SPRUEGLUE!?!?! *Mind blown*

Bout time I stopped using beveled cutters!!! Thnx for the tips man, I really enjoy the building aspect of the hobby but it's been made clear that cheaping out on this end of the hobby has done me a disservice

I want to do this but i don’t have the tools and spent all my money on the tyrannofex 😭 plus I’d be scared of ruining it and not being able to do any of them haha, but will keep this in my saved for later so thanks!

WAAAAAAGHHH! Thanks for magnitizing my orks bro, GJ on the video! Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the video, my brain was not working out how to magnetize ball joints👍

What size magnets did you use

You are the magnet master.

Thats my Deff Dread! GJ on the video dude

I ended up using 6x2mm neodymium magnets for the torso and the limbs

So for the head magnet all are 3x1 mm magnets, however in order to to the hole you first use acharpknife -> then 2 mm -> 3 mm? right?