Crocodile Games Mounted Amazons are really nice- except for the storage and transport dilemma. I didn't get these ladies finished for GenCon 2019's WarGods event, but they still took part in it in all their partially painted glory...
When I returned and unpacked them a couple had fallen off the horses (I had only pinned 3 of the 5) and so it was decided that they'd all come off the horses and get rare earth magnets so they could be swapped amongst the different horses and storage would not lead to tears.
The Amazon Raider above was more stubborn and just would not come loose from her horse, so I've left her alone- she's going to be the captain of the unit.
The tools I used for the magnetization process (aside from the tiny magnets and Gorilla Superglue Gel) were: clicky hobby knife, 3 needle files, and my beloved pin vise to drill the holes.
Above we've got the first horse to get a magnet. Below is one in progress. I'd make sure the holes for the magnets on rider and horse were lined up just right so the rider would be in a good stable seated position. That's when I'd make a tiny notch with the knife to start a hole for the drilling.
Next, I'd widen the hole so a magnet would be able to fit in snugly by using the needle files.
Below we can see where the magnets go for the riders. To help strengthen the hold of the magnets on both horse and rider I would put a little of the glue over top of the magnets to make a little hard barrier that would still allow the magnetic magic to happen.
After the first horse and rider were finished I used them to help speed up the process in a sort of assembly line. For the riders, I would put them over the magnet in the horse and then drill out the rider. To make sure that the polarities were all the same I'd mount a loose magnet onto the horse with a dab of glue...
...then the rider would carefully be fit into place onto the magnet and left for ten minutes or so to make sure the glue had dried. Then the rider would come off and the magnet would get a coat of superglue to help ensure it would stay in place.
The process was simply reversed for the other horses to get their magnets (the extra magnet would be stacked on the rider's magnet with a tiny dab of glue and then put into place onto the horse).
Here's a rider getting gently set into place with the awesome power of magnetism!
In the above pictures, the horse have not switched places but the riders have been distributed amongst them randomly. This is just a fun bonus feature of this project.
The stubborn captain of the unit will be the first to get fully painted. She's coming along nicely.
Now that the Raiders are done I'm going to need to do the same with the mounted archers- not sure if they should have the polarity switched or the same, though...
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