Pictured is a Warhammer 40k model, a Tau Crisis Suit Commander. I magnetized his hardpoints and weapons/support systems, as well as built him a flying base from scratch, which was also magnetized.

He didn’t come with a few parts (The flying base-peg thing, the decal sheet, only one Commander head, not two) so I’m going to be e-mailing Games Workshop (the company who makes Warhammer!) to ask them for replacement parts, even though I don’t neccesarily need them. I paid for ‘em, so I expect to get my extra bits!

Anyhoo, I spent maybe 8 hours total assembling/modifying/magnetizing this guy, and let me tell you, my fingers ACHE. I had to drill holes for all the magnets, but I don’t have a drill… so I just spun a drill bit with my bare hand, and it made all sorts of terrible blisters that later got filled with super glue. (Ow!)

Anyhoo, after I let him dry overnight, I’mm’a spray him with black primer (and all his weapons too!) and.. then once my paint and the rest of my Tau army gets here in the mail (it’s already been 9 business days, ugh) .. I’ll paint him. It will rock.

(Did I mention some of his parts were mismolds too, so I had to file parts down to get them to fit, and make part of his jetpack from Green Stuff? Yeesh.)