Magnetising self-help

I'm a little late with my post today, but here it is.

There are loads of posts out there on the benefits and ways to magnetise your models.  I'm not going to try and repeat anything in these as its pointless, instead I'll try and point you to a few that I've taken inspiration from in the past:  Magnetising Predator, Valkyrie, Speeder bases, Screaming Bell, Tervigon

What I'd like to add, is a little tool I've created for myself, to help me keep my polarities aligned correctly, so that no matter when I've magnetised things, they should always be interchangeable from whatever range I've used.

These two little tools are simply magnets fixed into the end of a blob of Milliput.  On the end of each blob is carved either a "B" or a "W".

The "B" is for body, I use this one to hold magnets that will be attached to the body side of any joint.  So, this is used when putting a magnet into the torso of a figure, the arm side of a wrist joint, or the hull of a vehicle, etc, etc.  The "W" is for weapon, and is the opposite polarity to the "B" magnet, I use this to hold the magnets I'm putting into the weapon side of any joint.  So this one is used for the shoulder of an arm, the hand side of a wrist joint, or the weapon of a vehicle.

Thanks to using these two little tools, I know that I can swap any arm onto any other model in my collection (particularly useful for Wolf Guard Terminators), any dreadnought arms I magnetise are completely interchangeable, and anything else I magnetise should always be backwards compatible.  They also make handling the magnets a breeze, and getting the aligned onto your models nice and easy.

Finally, to prove that I have actually been pretty busy, you can see my modelling station below and the pile of stuff all over it I'm working on.