Warhammer 40k Miniatures in Guatemala: STC

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Final day STC showcase week

Here we are on the final day of the showcase week, I saved for the last my predator, here the change was less dramatic as you can see when comparing the past

With the present

As in the previous days the few enhancements were done freehand and I satisfied with the fact that they look good even the checkers.

lets see what more I will have for the next showcase.

Magnetizing my predator turret options

After finishing my predator turret main work I keep on working on the options like the hatch, the hunter killer the search light and the radar dish.
The first step consisted of drilling a hole on the built radar dish base as you can see here:

next I glued a magnet to the turret hull interior, I selected one place where I though the radar would look good and applied a bit of glue to the turret interior next with a bit of careful placement (you got to remember that there are other magnets on the turret hull by now) I dropped the magnet, assuring correct magnet polarity and a correct placement in one single move.

If everything else is correct you will have a piece that attach with good force to the turret as you can see here where I have everything sideways.

Step 3 consisted of drilling holes on the remaining options mentioned before:

Step 4 consisted of placing magnets to the hatch options. to accomplish this I glued a rod of plastic so it is recessed and the hatch doesn't´t protrude from the turret top.
next I drilled a hole in hatch inner sprue and glued properly aligned magnets to each,

To test if the alignment was the correct I move one hatch on top of each other and If they snapped together everything was ok.

Finally I worked on the bolter that I decided to glue to the hatch with the base and mounted everything as a test.

so far most of the magnetization options are done, but that is for the next time.

Choices had to be made

Ok I ‘m posting today the pictures of my recently built Land Raider, it is magnetized an used the Magnetizing a Land Raider post at heresy on-line to do it, first are the pictures for the hull magnet points which are 3 plus the 2 sponson hinges.

Next will be the weapon magnets

for the Assault canon cover I used no magnets just some clip parts so the magnets on top of the guns can pull it on place, here I was careful not to fill the complete recess so it can function as a guide for the proper place of the cover.

fully armed it looks like that

next the sponson weapons

the flamers magnets are 2 on the main gun body and one for the tank in the connecting piece for the tank.

for the covers I used 2 tiny magnets to attach to the weapon of choice

next are the hatches and main body antenna with this little arrangement they are free to rotate but the must be centered and close enough to have a strong bond.

that is so far, in pictures and one final comment I would like to leave here to make reference to this post title:

I decided to use a mainly closed LR because I really don’t have to paint a so finely detailed interior and because an un-careful drop of glue ruined the front hatch opening mechanism. the later reason is just pure coincidence but the former is a deliberated choice I had to make so the model wouldn’t take another 3 months half finished waiting for the deserved attention it should get because work and life doesn’t allow it, for my it was a heart wrenching decision because the interior is just lovely but it wouldn’t be finished on a realistic timetable without needing a lot more effort from me and sacrificing the few spare or sleeping time I have. as I said it is difficult.

I would like to know what you would do with that choice.