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Magnetic travel 40k!


Xanthier

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It looks like he took an old magnetic travel game and did a new cover for it!

 

The magnets must be strong enough to hold even if there's a sheet between the minis and the ''gaming board''

 

I luv the concept....it is great.....if you dont play DoW on a laptop.....you can play a real 40k game in the car...or anywhere else!

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Cheers guys! Yes, I did take it to GD UK, and spoke to quite a few designers etc, and managed to get pictures of it taken by the web design guy, so with luck it'll appear on the GW website soon enough...

 

As for how it was made, a quick tutorial, to be expanded upon later:

 

1) Find a travel game with a big enough case.

2) Remove the card from on top of the case, and find either some metal sheet, or other little magnetic travel games (in my case, 5 little games).

3) Remove the metal sheeting from the magnetic games and essentially plate the big case.

4) Glue flock paper on the top, and varnish spray it several times to help everything stay on (or alternatively spray the metal black, flock it, then varnish).

5) Get your epic figures of choice, and file the bases down, attaching them to -ceramic- magnets for troops and -rare earth- magnets for anything larger. If you use rare earth magnets for the normal troops, they can break off when you try to pick them up. A ceramic magnet will still hold them on even with vigorous shaking, I've tested it.

6) Paint!

 

There you go, travel 40k.

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