Magnetizing Guide: Jetbikes
One of the first proper 'hobby' conversions people consider is magnetizing their miniatures. I learned to do this on my Tau Crisis suits, as any Crisis suit player will tend to do. What I'm magnetizing today is my jet bikes. Eldar windrunner jet bikes all come with three options for wargear; standard twin-linked shuriken catapults, shuriken canons and scatter lasers. Whilst for now any jet bike can take the heavier weapons freely, it may well be in the next iteration of the rules it will be one-per-three as in the before times. To avoid us having to spend another £10+ per jet bike to make our army legal again, we magnetize the weapons, allowing us to swap them out from battle to battle (or even mid-battle if we act like Skaven and the opponent isn't looking). It can seem like a daunting task filled with various arcane devices, such as rare earth magnets and the mythical plastic tweezers, but it's not all that complex. You will need some tools though. Here is ...