How I magnetised a goliath truck/rockgrinder

[Stercus]

Hi folks. I recently bought this frankly rather excellent kit and decided to magnetise it so that i could use it as either variant. Here's how I did it:

Firstly, using the wheel connecters as a guide, mark both the upper and lower centre points on the chassis. The wheel connecters fit fairly snugly into these slots, which makes this process easier.

Using the points you've marked out, drill two guide holes. I used a 1mm drill bit and a pin vice.

A 1mm magnet isn't sufficient to hold the wheels in place, so now we have to enlarge the holes. I used a 2.5mm drill bit and then a round file to ensure a snug fit for the 3mm magnets i intended to use.

And voila... in they pop. Make sure to get the polarity right before you glue them, or you'll have to resort to profanity later.

For the wheels at the rear of the truck I had to trim the support struts a little, but this was just a matter of scraping with a scalpel a little. The front area required no modification. In the second photo below you can just make out the dab of superglue I used to hold the magnets in place, but to be honest if you get your holes just right the fit is already pretty tight.

Now to place the magnets in the wheel connecters. GW have kindly left them hollow which means no drilling. I used a pair of 1.5x1mm magnets in each connecter, simply superglued in place. Again, and I really can't stress this enough, make sure of your polarity before you glue anything.

you can now attach the connecters to the wheels and you should find that they will snap into place in either the high or lowrider positions equally easily.

Next up we need to sort out the big grindy wossname on the front. This is really easy, so there's less pictures.

First, drill a hole in the flat face of each support arm and insert a 2x1mm magnet like so:

Now glue the support arms into position on the dozer blade.

When the glue is dry, dry fit the dozer blade onto the front of the truck and mark around the points where the support arms make contact. Remove the dozer blade and mark where the centre points lie.

Drill holes and insert magnets. Its that simple. So long as you get your polarity right and make sure the magnets sit flush the kit is well engineered enough that the dozer blade should now be secure.

These are the key steps in getting maximum use out of an excellent kit. The weapons also need magnetising, but thats such a simple process I didn't take pictures. Most of the other variant parts simply slot in and don't require any real modification.

Thanks for looking folks.

[spafe]

Do you have some pics of the finished kit? I'm looking to get a few of these for my cult so wondering how easy it is to do in advance.

[Stercus]

It’s pretty straightforward. I’ll see if I can upload some more pics tomorrow. Edited January 31, 2018 by Stercus