RGMW Outtakes and Rogues Gallery

by Myrmidon A while back I asked some folks for some suggestions with a project I was wanting to do - namely making casualty figures without bases (like the old metal casualty marine figures from the RT era). I got a couple badly mangled gaunts, and a gaunt model from a box set I ordered a while back (apparently hand sorted with a bucket loader) and I thought it would be cool to use them as casualties when playing. However, I wanted to make them lying in pools of their own epoxy 'blood' rather than sticking them on bases and then doing the epoxy for blood. The main 'sticking point' as it were was that I had to find a surface I could pour the epoxy blood pools on, and let it harden with the figure in it, and still be able to remove the figure and epoxy from the surface once the epoxy had hardened. So, I experimented a bit, and I thought I'd share the results in case anyone else wanted to do their own. I tried pouring tinted epoxy on the following surfaces, ...

At long last I've finally gotten the time to do the article on rare- earth magnets and converting a plastic Carnifex using them. (As well as rare-earth magnets in general for a variety of model conversions.) The pics for this article are all located in my Photobucket web page if you want to look at all of them at once… What, Where, and Why? I use the following sized 'rare-earth' magnets on a regular basis. NdFeB Disc Magnet, 3/8 in. x 1/8 in. NdFeB Disc Magnet, 1/8in. x 1/16 in. NdFeB Disc Magnet, 3/16 in. x 1/16 in. What all have I converted with rare-earth magnets? Lets see… I've converted Dreadnoughts with standard plastic arms and heavy resin Forgeworld arms, I've used them with Armorcast resin critters, I've made magnetic mounts on GW Rhinos to convert them into Preds at will, I've made magnetic mounts on weapons hard points to swap out weapons on Predators, Whirlwinds, and Razorbacks. I've used them on a Forgeworld Hydra gun emplacement to make i...