UPDATE - Managed to also add a magnet to the Havoc Launcher, I’ve just added some pics and an explanation on my Instagram (hobbywaffle). Hope it helps, and thanks for watching 👍🙂
As others have said, thanks for doing the measuring and testing for the entire community. This is s great help. Liked and subed. Cheers pal. Looking forward to more of you work.
@@dergrumpboyz I haven’t done it yet, but I’m going to glue a 5mm x 1mm magnet on the underside of the top plate of the dread, and then glue a small steel nut inside the bottom of the missile launcher, that should do it and as long as the magnet and nut are central it should sit nicely. I’ll post some pics on my instagram when I’ve done it and comment here
Just got myself a contemptor and following your video has made it an easy and quick process to magnitise it! I'm getting 2 leviathan dreads in a couple of weeks and will be following your video for those as well. Thank you!
I've developed an obsession with magnetising every part of my dreadnought. Literally. The head is magnetised. The arm joints are magnetised. The hip joint is magnetised. Why? I don't know. I'm just obsessed.
What I realised is that the part connceted to the shoulder is different from wepaon to fist. So I recommend magnetizing those too (7x1mm), gives you the flexibility of changing hands and weapons on both sides and you can change the rotation position of the whole arm.
Brilliant vid-cheers! Don't suppose by any mad chance you have a spare pair of knees for a Contemptor or just one for a n FW Relic Contemptor? Carpet monster ate my FW one! Gone forever! Cheers.
@@hobbywaffle that's really kind of you. I know it's a loooong shot but I thought there was maybe a teeny chance. Might to have to resort to sprue and plasticard scratch building-alas, I'm rubbish at that too! Cheers again.
I did look at it but decided not to bother - I think a smaller magnet such as a 2 x 1mm might fit, but you’d have to leave the power fist part unglued and secure it some other way, as you need to take it off to swap out the inbuilt weapon. In the end I just went for the flamer
At least it’s holding them for you, if I build a second one I might try it without magnets, will save a lot of messing about and glueing my fingers together haha
@@hobbywaffle I screwed up and tried to copy and it was my first time using magnets and I screwed up and since there were too small it just didn't work in holding it well and the other magnets I had were too big
I might look at that for the next build - it’s a ball joint so it might be possible to put something like a 3mm x 2mm magnet in the centre of both sides.
You could use 3mm magnets on the inside of the weapons, but the arm piece has a hole that is 4mm in diameter, so 3mm won’t work for those arm/elbow pieces, you’d need some 4mm for those parts. Hope that helps.
Yes, follow the same procedure and if you‘ve already done the right arm, use that arm to get your magnet polarity correct, then you can swap weapons/arms between the right and left sides.
What strength of magnets did you use? Videos always talk about size but noone says what strength they are using. Eg N45s would probably be overkill but are N35s strong enough?
Hi, the ones I used were N35 (0.16kg pull) and they seem more than strong enough. Good point about magnet strength though, I’ll make sure I mention it in future videos, although I’ll have to add it as a graphic for the Rhino unboxing as I’ve already filmed that one 🙂
What if I magnetized not taking into the account the polarization of the magnets and built all the weapons like a dum dum last night? Any way to fix the issue? I used plastic cement for the minis and super glue for the magnets. Pro tip, don't assemble miniatures when you are drunk...
Have you put the arms together fully? If you have glued a magnet into the ring on the upper arm, that should pop out easy enough with some gentle force. For the weapons, if you can’t pry the magnets out, you could maybe drill a small hole from the other/outer side of the weapon which will pop the magnet out. You could then set them all the right way around, and just have to fill the small hole if you are ok with that? A very small flat head screwdriver might be able to pry them out though, seeing as it’s superglue. Hope you manage to get it sorted!
Similar to some of the Adeptus Titanicus kits, it seems this one was purposefully engineered for being magnetized. It's a shame GW does not advertise what the kit designers are doing so people know in advance.
Agreed, they advertised it well with the Warlord Titan and one or two of the others, and they really should make a point of highlighting as a positive when they design kits with options to magnetise.
Not easily - the upper arm part on the resin Contemptor is a solid piece, whereas it’s a ring in the plastic kit. You could maybe drill a small hole for a magnet but you could end up with a brittle ring of resin. I’ve found that my resin Contemptor weapons fit on the plastic upper arm with friction holding it in place, but it may very given how inconsistent resin is
I would just magnetise the same way as my resin Contemptors so they can all use the same weapons. Not a fan of this method, doesn't look like it works well between gun and fist loadout.
@@hobbywaffle I'm looking at the sprue online and it seems they've made it really awkward for resin weapons. As there are only 1 lf each parts 25 and 29 you can't magnetise these the same way as the resin kits without having a 25 or 29 for each weapon (depending if left or right handed). They didn't consider the resin gun arm kits for the FW Dreads at all by the looks of it. As someone with lots of gun option thay are legion agnostic in paint scheme I'll have to stick to resin Dreads unless I want to get a whole 2nd set of plastic Dread arms :/
UPDATE - Managed to also add a magnet to the Havoc Launcher, I’ve just added some pics and an explanation on my Instagram (hobbywaffle). Hope it helps, and thanks for watching 👍🙂
Useful video! Thanks for making it👍
As others have said, thanks for doing the measuring and testing for the entire community. This is s great help. Liked and subed. Cheers pal. Looking forward to more of you work.
Thank you for the kind words!
Its always the channels with less than 5k subs that come in cluth the best. Thank you for you video, will definetly be doing this!
Thank you!
Hope you found this video useful! If you are planning on using magnets for your dread let me know in the comments.
How do you magnetize the cyclone middle launcher on top?, that’s one thing I’m stuck on while I’m trying to magnetize my contemptor dreadnought
@@dergrumpboyz I haven’t done it yet, but I’m going to glue a 5mm x 1mm magnet on the underside of the top plate of the dread, and then glue a small steel nut inside the bottom of the missile launcher, that should do it and as long as the magnet and nut are central it should sit nicely. I’ll post some pics on my instagram when I’ve done it and comment here
@@hobbywaffle Alright, thank you, I will follow your instagram so I can see it when you post them
Thanks for making this video I just bought a World Eaters Contemptor recently, and I wanted to do this. Thanks again!
You are very welcome!
Brilliant tutorial. Simple, gets to the point, zero bullshit. Thanks!
Thanks, I’m going to I try and magnetise the new leviathan too
Just got myself a contemptor and following your video has made it an easy and quick process to magnitise it! I'm getting 2 leviathan dreads in a couple of weeks and will be following your video for those as well. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words, glad it helped :)
Excellent tutorial, straight forward and to the point. Much appreciated!
Thanks, glad it helped 🙂
Great tutorial video, saved me a lot of time and (failed) tests :D. Contemptor with magnets is coming together nicely! Cheerios!
Thanks!
I've developed an obsession with magnetising every part of my dreadnought. Literally. The head is magnetised. The arm joints are magnetised. The hip joint is magnetised. Why? I don't know. I'm just obsessed.
That workspace is ridiculously clean and organised.
It’s only that tidy for filming, there’s usually half finished minis, tools and a cold cup of tea/coffee on there amongst the tools and bits 😁
Great vid, thanks! I got the idea to do this but couldn't figure out the exact size of magnets.
Love the designers made it so easy!
Excellent! I already have the necessary magnets too!
Ah excellent!
This is brilliant and exactly what I needed. Thank you so much for the video !
Thanks! 🙂
Thanks dude you're a saint!
Really useful video thanks
Thanks 🙂
Nice, thanks for doing the hard work for us :)
thank you very much this made it super easy to understand
Thanks, I’m glad it helped 🙂
Great video, thanks!
Thank you 🙂
Thanks! VERY helpful!
Thank you :)
Thank you very much.
Thanks I'm making a custom space marine chapter and I'm using a contemptor in it this helped
Thanks!
Excellent video with great tips.
Thanks 😊
Clear and cocise, thank you!. Subscribed :)
Thanks 😊
What I realised is that the part connceted to the shoulder is different from wepaon to fist. So I recommend magnetizing those too (7x1mm), gives you the flexibility of changing hands and weapons on both sides and you can change the rotation position of the whole arm.
Thats a good idea, if I build another I will do that 👍
So useful thank you !
Thanks! :)
I’m having trouble with it at 1:48 when you put it in
For me that doesn’t work the it won’t fit in and the gun breaks apart
Sorry to hear that, are you using 1mm thick magnets?
Sorry late reply but yeah I’m using 4by 1 mm
Very helpful
Thank you 🙂
It looks like friction would work for these too. What do you think?
Possibly yes especially if painted, although over time it might become loose
Brilliant vid-cheers! Don't suppose by any mad chance you have a spare pair of knees for a Contemptor or just one for a n FW Relic Contemptor? Carpet monster ate my FW one! Gone forever! Cheers.
I don’t think I have one but I’ll have a look in my bits box :)
@@hobbywaffle that's really kind of you. I know it's a loooong shot but I thought there was maybe a teeny chance. Might to have to resort to sprue and plasticard scratch building-alas, I'm rubbish at that too! Cheers again.
Brilliant!
I saw you also did the Havoc launcher, too!
Any thoughts about the weapon embedded in its claw (left hand)?
I did look at it but decided not to bother - I think a smaller magnet such as a 2 x 1mm might fit, but you’d have to leave the power fist part unglued and secure it some other way, as you need to take it off to swap out the inbuilt weapon. In the end I just went for the flamer
I screwed up and didn't have big enough magnets but the dread holds the weapons well even without the magnets
At least it’s holding them for you, if I build a second one I might try it without magnets, will save a lot of messing about and glueing my fingers together haha
@@hobbywaffle I screwed up and tried to copy and it was my first time using magnets and I screwed up and since there were too small it just didn't work in holding it well and the other magnets I had were too big
Thx for the vid. Have you thought about making the waist rotatable ?
I might look at that for the next build - it’s a ball joint so it might be possible to put something like a 3mm x 2mm magnet in the centre of both sides.
@@hobbywaffle I ve actully used raw/wall plugs on some models and it works😄
@@tobyward6072 Haha that’s awesome
Could i still magnetise the weapons if i use 3mm?
You could use 3mm magnets on the inside of the weapons, but the arm piece has a hole that is 4mm in diameter, so 3mm won’t work for those arm/elbow pieces, you’d need some 4mm for those parts. Hope that helps.
i need to ask, it's the same procedure for the left hand of the dreadnought or something is different? thx a lot for anyone answering me
Yes, follow the same procedure and if you‘ve already done the right arm, use that arm to get your magnet polarity correct, then you can swap weapons/arms between the right and left sides.
@@hobbywaffle thx a lot
How do you keep the magnets clear when painting and priming?
I usually just put a little blob of blu-tac on them, or you could use masking fluid if you have it.
@@hobbywaffle thank you.
What strength of magnets did you use?
Videos always talk about size but noone says what strength they are using.
Eg N45s would probably be overkill but are N35s strong enough?
Hi, the ones I used were N35 (0.16kg pull) and they seem more than strong enough. Good point about magnet strength though, I’ll make sure I mention it in future videos, although I’ll have to add it as a graphic for the Rhino unboxing as I’ve already filmed that one 🙂
What if I magnetized not taking into the account the polarization of the magnets and built all the weapons like a dum dum last night? Any way to fix the issue? I used plastic cement for the minis and super glue for the magnets.
Pro tip, don't assemble miniatures when you are drunk...
Have you put the arms together fully? If you have glued a magnet into the ring on the upper arm, that should pop out easy enough with some gentle force. For the weapons, if you can’t pry the magnets out, you could maybe drill a small hole from the other/outer side of the weapon which will pop the magnet out. You could then set them all the right way around, and just have to fill the small hole if you are ok with that? A very small flat head screwdriver might be able to pry them out though, seeing as it’s superglue. Hope you manage to get it sorted!
Similar to some of the Adeptus Titanicus kits, it seems this one was purposefully engineered for being magnetized. It's a shame GW does not advertise what the kit designers are doing so people know in advance.
Agreed, they advertised it well with the Warlord Titan and one or two of the others, and they really should make a point of highlighting as a positive when they design kits with options to magnetise.
Dose this apply to the forge world resin contemptors.
Not easily - the upper arm part on the resin Contemptor is a solid piece, whereas it’s a ring in the plastic kit. You could maybe drill a small hole for a magnet but you could end up with a brittle ring of resin. I’ve found that my resin Contemptor weapons fit on the plastic upper arm with friction holding it in place, but it may very given how inconsistent resin is
I would just magnetise the same way as my resin Contemptors so they can all use the same weapons. Not a fan of this method, doesn't look like it works well between gun and fist loadout.
Did you magnetise them at the joint further up? I’ll be doing something similar for the Leviathan probably
@@hobbywaffle I'm looking at the sprue online and it seems they've made it really awkward for resin weapons. As there are only 1 lf each parts 25 and 29 you can't magnetise these the same way as the resin kits without having a 25 or 29 for each weapon (depending if left or right handed). They didn't consider the resin gun arm kits for the FW Dreads at all by the looks of it. As someone with lots of gun option thay are legion agnostic in paint scheme I'll have to stick to resin Dreads unless I want to get a whole 2nd set of plastic Dread arms :/
the dreathnought from the hh box doesnt need magnets you can swap the weapons out if you dont gluy them
If I build another one I’ll give it a try without magnets - thanks
Why did Gw go with designs from 1960s sci-fi this and the bubble Boys of the imperium are some of the worst designs yet in my opinion.
Not sure what you mean by bubble boys - do you mean Marines?
I definitely would like more boxnaughts in my life 👀