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==Converted Standards, Shields, & Horns==
I always like variety in my models that, could otherwise, look like twins or triplets. Furthermore I hate when Musicians and Standard Bearers are modeled as if they went to war with no weapons at all! I created a left hand standard, a left hand standard with shield, 2 shield hands holding weapons, and 2 back mounted shield. Everything is magnetized. See below for photos of these conversions.<br />
[[File:Shield_axe_1.jpg|1024px]]
[[File:Shield_axe_2.jpg|1024px]]
==Magentizing the Warriors==
Magnetizing the old Warriors is a no brainer given how they are pieced together. Here is a pic of an old Warrior with magnetized elbows. See the photos just above for magnetized weapons, shields, etc.<br />[[File:Old_warrior_body_magnets.jpg|1024px]] Magnetizing the new Warriors is a bit more complex since they are monopose and don't all split at the elbow like the old guys. I ended up evaluating how easy/hard it would be to magnetize each arm of each new Warrior and only did what was easy. Check out the table below for my take on how hard it is to do each guy. Legend:*easy: a straight cut with a hobby saw*hard: requires some greenstuff and/or more than a straight cut*impossible: molded into the body, would take a lot of work to magnetize {| border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse"|'''Instruction #'''|'''Right Hand'''|'''Left Hand'''|-|7|hard|easy|-|8|easy|impossible|-|9|hard|easy|-|10|hard|easy|-|11|hard|easy|-|12|easy|easy|-|13|easy|impossible|-|14|easy|easy|-|15|easy|easy|-|16|hard|impossible|-} Here are some pics of the new Warrior crew showing off the magnetization. Note that Warrior 16 (the last one) has no magnetization done.<br />[[File:Warrior-7a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-7b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-8a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-8b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-9a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-9b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-10a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-10b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-11a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-11b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-12a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-12b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-13a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-13b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-14a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-14b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-15a.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-15b.jpg|1024px]][[File:Warrior-16.jpg|1024px]] ==Standard Bearers and Musicians==For my 15 man block of Chaos Warriors I put together 3 Standard Bearers and 3 Musicians. It was an obvious choice to make the 5 Old Warriors into these guys and since I needed 1 more I had to convert a new Warrior as well. While these dudes are "Chaos" I'm not really into the idea that they're all dragging around severed body parts all the time so I converted the new Warrior holding a severed head into one holding a Horn. Here are some pics of my Standard Bearers and Musicians (plus a couple pics showing 2 guys' shields magnetized to their backs).<br />[[File:Old_standard_1.jpg|1024px]][[File:Old_standard_2.jpg|1024px]][[File:Old_standard_3.jpg|1024px]][[File:Old_musician_1.jpg|1024px]][[File:Old_musician_2.jpg|1024px]][[File:New_musician.jpg|1024px]][[File:Shield_back_1.jpg|1024px]][[File:Shield_back_2.jpg|1024px]]<br /> And finally (even though I'm not running them this way) here are 3 pics showing how you could, easily convert a new Chaos Warrior into a Standard Bearer<br />[[File:New_standard_1.jpg|1024px]][[File:New_standard_2.jpg|1024px]][[File:New_standard_3.jpg|1024px]]