Magnetizing Valkyries

[Inquisitor Fox]

So I recently got a Valkyrie kit with the intention of using it for my Codex: Inquisition and Codex: Stormtrooper forces.  I want to have the ability to change between the multi-laser and lascannon, and the hellstrike missiles and rocket pods.  I figure on using the multi-laser and rocket pods most often, but options are nice.

 

Does anyone have experience with this model and setting it up for multiple options?  How would one tackle the missiles and rocket pods?  I'm used to round rare earth magnets but those are a weird shape for that.

[Warsmith Aznable]

I use 1/8" wide disc magnets, and these are thin (I forget exactly what size at the moment).

I added a strip of plasticard to the rocket pods, though I suppose you could do it without it. I also made (or am making, rather) my own lascannons:

Those strips are the length of the mounting nubs molded into the wings. I flattened out the mounting nub with a dremel and added magnets to the ends:

The multi-laser, lascannon, twin-linked lascannon was a bit trickier, but the same general principle:

I didn't sink the magnets because of the thinness of the plastic.

Here's the lascannon for the Valkyrie and the twin-linked lascannon for the Vendetta:

Because the magnets are not sunk into the plasticard on the twin-linked lascannon I constructed, I added the double-stacked magnets in the middle just to keep it from going cocked to one side (they don't actually magnetise to anything.)

Mounted examples:

This was/is my first attempt at Valkyrie/Vendetta magnetising, and it's a bit unfinished and rough around the edges. It should at least give you an idea or two about how you might do your own.

[Inquisitor Fox]

Thank you!  Other ideas are always good, and glad to see I'm not the only one with the idea :)

[Veteran Sergeant]

Could have just stacked up some extra plastic card to brace it, and would save you wasting the magnets.

[Argun]

I've used a metal plate in the housing of my valkyries/vendettas, and a single 1/8" magnet in the gun. Think it was 1/16" thick, and that was enough. For the pods, I did pretty much what -Max- did, except I kept the little nubs that stick down from the wing, and then drilled into the center of those. Same magnets as well, and they worked just fine!

[Inquisitor Fox]

What do you all think of using a bit of paperclip or something on the missiles and rocket pods to replace the plastic upraise, and drilling from the backside of the plastic joint/hardpoint and popping a magnet down the rabbit hole so to speak?  Trying to think how to preserve as much of the original plastic as possible style wise, and I like the idea of having a "hardpoint" so to speak.

[Warsmith Aznable]

I think, if I understand what you mean, that it sounds like a lot of work for something that's always going to be under a wing and largely out of sight.