At the clients request the Space Marine shown in the previous post has magnetized swappable arms, power fist/sword and bolt gun/pistol. He’s also requested a similar thing for all members of the Actual Scale Terminator squad I’ll be starting soon. This is a great way of getting value from models I feel, and from my point of view as a converter is a nice little touch to a finished product. Sure this is nothing new, but it got me thinking whilst I was repositioning one of the arms on a veteran sergeant. It wouldn’t be too extreme to place tiny magnets between forearm and elbow, and perhaps small ball magnets where the head/helmet attaches to the body (as well as at the shoulders). This would give not only swappable arms but posable arms and heads.

Things like this, as well as fibre optics in the eyes and motors driving the spinning assault cannon (seen it done a few times now), speakers built into a Squiggoth, are great novelties, but is it going too far?

At what point do wargames figures become toys and is it something the average gamer wants?

For me personally I think magnetized arms/weapons and wargear are enough, but I’d be interested in knowing what others think of this sort of “upgrading” of miniatures.

Miscellaneous Fiber Optics, Magnets, Motors, Random Thoughts