They're ridiculously small, perfectly formed, powerful, and fairly high priced, I guess you can't have it all. Though eBay came up trumps with a pack of 50 3/32" x 1/16 earth magnets and x2 drill bits for $17 + postage. Then you just need a steady hand and a dot of super glue.
The 3/32 size magnet and drill is key as this is small enough to drill into the vertical peg to mount the magnet of all X-wing miniatures bases. I've used them on all my ships as it just makes mounting them that much easier and I didn't like the way some ships needed a firm pressure to mount them to the peg, now it's a simple clip and they're done.
They can still spin which may not suit all and unlike other mods using earth magnets and BB gun pellets which allow the ship to bank, this mod won't do that. I did try with some BB pellets but just couldn't get the ships to sit firmly enough, they'd slide down the side... not the look I was going for. I think this was down to me not recessing the magnet into the female half of the ship stem, but give it a go and see what you think.
With the larger ships like the YT-1300 and Firespray their triangular stem fittings like I said have been tight, so a little bit of filling on the male half on the straight edges of the triangle sorted this problem.
Then careful drilling, a couple of earth magnets later and your YT-1300 as heavy as this girls is will barrel roll no problem without coming unstuck.
I have had a few problems along the way, check the polarity of all your magnets before gluing them in so all bases are the same, or you'll have you're very own repulser life bases, nice. When gluing the magnet make sure they are parallel to the base or your ships will look lopsided, a little jig can solve this.
If you're like your fleet converted and haven't got steady hands, contact me at and I can convert your fleet no problem.
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