Here is how to magnetize the Warhammer 40k Chaos Knights Renegades Abominant, War Dog Karnivores models to future-proof them!
Rob is back building and magnetizing the new Chaos Knights Abominant, War Dog Karnivores to show you how to future-proof them. He’ll see what it takes to get the minis ready for the tabletop, show the size of the models, and tell you the GOTCHAS to be aware of when building them!
We are going to show you everything, including the sprues, bits, and of course, the size. That way, you can decide if this is worth your hard-earned hobby dollars.
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Since we’ll be using a ton of magnets, everything Rob is using comes from the Magnet Baron, as they have pre-made magnetization kits for projects like this.
Obviously, magnets for this Chaos Knights will be extremely useful for changing your army lists between not just games but new codex books and editions of the rules.
Magnetizing & Build Chaos Knights Abominant, War Dog Karnivores
In the Chaos Knights army box, you get three sprues for the Karnivores and then four big chonky sprues for the Abominant.
The Chaos Knights Army Box also comes with the book and the cards. Rob really likes how they did the plastic on this one, as it really kept everything in place and helps keep the book from bouncing around and getting damaged.
Instructions
To start, the nice thing is you get both weapon variants for the Karnivores, so if you magnetize them, you can use all three datasheets interchangeably.
Unfortunately, you can’t do too much with posing these, but we’ll do some tricks with magnets later.
For the Abominant, there don’t seem too many big gotchas. However, you will want to magnetize the weapons so you can future-proof this mini. We’ll show you how don’t worry.
This is the first part where you will want to magnetize. You won’t have to drill anything out, but in this joint at the top, you want to magnetize so the weapons will work.
For the Karnivores, the one thing to note is you want to drill this part out and magnetize it before gluing.
Sprues
The Karnivore sprue looks great as we have come to expect, and nothing seems too hard to build.
The Abominant sprue also looks amazing, and there are some small bits sure, but nothing too crazy.
One really nice thing about the weapons here is you can just slide a magnet right in here without having to drill anything out! If you’re wondering which magnets to use, we’ll show you everything below!
Magnetize & Build Chaos Knights Abominant, War Dog Karnivores
The first thing we didn’t realize is magnetizing the waist is a little hard with the claws. So we ended up putting a 3/8 magnet for the bottom of the waist and a 5/8 for the top.
For the weapons, we used 1/4 x 1/16 magnets for the top, which does have to be drilled out some. then for the weapons themselves, we used the 1/32 depth magnets, and they just slide right into the slots, so no real drilling for them. as you can see above. We’ll have the whole list of every magnet you need below.
It is nice that they give more weapon options, so you can use them all!
The Knight Abominate is huge! Rob left off a couple of the more chaos bits, but overall it looks great!
For the weapons, the 5/16 magnets on the weapons themselves fit in perfectly without any drilling. For the joint on the shoulder, you will also use the 5/16 magnet; you can actually fit that flush as well. You could drill it, but you really don’t have.
For the waist, you will use the exact same magnets as the Karnivore top. Just make sure to drill out the dome part a little as the waist has to go up inside.
One cool thing about this is that you don’t even have to glue the weapon parts together because they fit perfectly. That way, if GW comes out with another kit, you can just build and swap it potentially.
List of Magnets & Tools You’ll Need
- Karnivore Weapons: 1/4 x 1/16
- Karnivore Waist: 3/8 magnet for the bottom of the waist and a 5/8 for the top
- Abominant Weapons: 5/16 magnet for both sides
- Abominant Waist: 3/8 magnet for the bottom of the waist and a 5/8 for the top
Rob uses this Hand Sized Pin Vice and drill bits to get the holes ready to go quickly for all the magnets.
Wowstick Motorized Drill Watch us use at around the 24:00 mark in this video by clicking here.
- Hand Sized Pin Vice For larger projects like Knights, Forge World kits etc.
- Pin Vice For Miniatures We like the army painter one, but there are a ton to choose from
- Drill Bits For Magnets (small quick release) Larger Bits (for vehicles etc.) Quick-release set
- Wowstick Motorized Drill makes pinning and drilling out barrels a breeze and helps with magnetizing miniatures, but you still need a pin vice to bore out pilot holes over 1/8″ in diameter.
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