Hey all

Im trying to cook up some plans for making the arms on the hive tyrant interchangeable - ie no more god damn super glue. After the experiences of *constantly* breaking arms off my previous HT, i want to minimise the use of glue on the new one, both to avoid breakages and to give a chance to select different weapons

The task is fitting plastic arms onto a white metal body...Was wondering if anyone has had any success themselves? How did u do it?

I was thinking of using tiny rare earth magnets and filing them down to slot into little holes i would cut into the arms?

Rare earth magnets are the way to go...

I have used a system of two pins about 2mm apart. the pins are also quite long, having about 4 mm sticking out of the host part with deep holes in the offending weapon arms.....

I also used a system similar to this on a 8x squad of Tyranid warriors(+ 1 VC). After fixing the weapon arms on the model I cut the fronts of the two weapons I new I wanted to interchange (devourer + deathspitter). The back part of the weapon (doesnt really matter which you use) becomes the fixed piece, and I just stick on the devourer front (barrel bit) or the deathspitter front when needed.

Thanks guys

DMG yeah i also am partial to the RE magnets, had any ecperience with them? Do they attract onto white metal or do youy need to put other metal things on there?

BHR Interesting point with the warrior unit... sounds like a plan for my next batch of 3 warriors!

RE magnets don't attract to white metal at all. In reality, they attract most strongly to other RE magnets. Also, they are extremely hard yet brittle, and don't take to filing well. Basically, you'll need to drill hiles in your mini to make them fit. It's easy enough to do on plastic parts, but I imagine drilling big enough holes into metal would be a good deal harder.

Dammit i knew that would be the case....

What i was thinking of doing is implanting the RE magnets into the (plastic) arms of the model, then just gluing a small bit or metal into the (white metal) torso of the Tyrant to act as an attractor for the magnets?

I'm not sure the attraction will be strong enough. In my experience, RE magnets are strongest when attached to other RE magnets.