 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and if you're like me you've got armies and sometimes you need to take them somewhere. Doesn't matter what game you're playing could be 40k, could be Age of Sigmar, could be anything. If you've got a significant force you need to move that's bigger than a skirmish force it can often be challenging. If you're also like me you build big monsters you know there's just some things that are pretty big and how do you transport those? The off-the-shelf magnet racks are fine, foam is obviously terrible, never use the foam army transports those are just asking to wear away your paint and ruin your paint jobs. So magnets are the answer but if we magnetize what do we put the figs on? Well today we're going to make this thing. I obviously have already made it but this video is going to take you how to make an easy simple army transport that lets you magnetize everything right there pull it out and you're ready to go ready to rock to safely securely easily transport your armies. Let's get into it. The strict technomancer that is vincey v. Let us get into the technique and learn it vincey v. All right before we go about building anything we have to talk about priorities. I had four priorities. One it has to be able to fit a large army. Some of the armies I have are really big and when you factor in things like summoning and stuff like that it gets even bigger. Two it had to fit in my trunk. I drive a fairly compact car so it couldn't be too tall so I had to measure out my trunk and whatever we get has to easily fit in there. Three it needs to have a removable rack so that I can easily pull it out of the bin and then move it from table to table in between rounds or to take it out to get stuff off or on whatever the case may be. And finally and most importantly number four it needs to be cheaper than the off the rack alternatives. I have nothing against magna racks but when you get the really big ones that are for transporting really large armies they are very very very expensive. So with those four priorities in mind let's see what we can do. All right so step one is going to be we go to the hardware store so I'm at Lowe's and we're going to go in and we're going to find the appropriate stuff so that's where we begin we got to get all the components let's get to it. First part should be the easiest. I went to the hardware store I looked over their whole selection of bins they had many many many of them and many of these could be good for your armies deciding on what size you needed but this one right here is the last one they had of this size in stock and it is two feet long by about 15 inches wide inside which should be exactly perfect especially because we can find boards and metal to fit. So next up is to grab the metal pieces now you can usually find metal sheets like this at the hardware store make sure you're buying steel don't buy aluminum. You need some handles so we got to find the right handles now this is my wife picking out the handles here spoiler this will not end well I'm the one who actually picked these out but you got to find some good handles you want the ones that screw in from the front then finally some wood now there you can get simple shims or stuff like that if you want to be relatively thin and lightweight but I find some I found a one inch by 24 inch by seven and a quarter inch poplar which was a nice tough wood it'll be super durable and seven and a half inches wide times two is 14 and a half inches and we have 15 inches inside so two of them next each other is perfect. All right so we're back going to the hardware store because I may have made a little boo boo little error and grabbed the wrong handles because I need the ones that attach from the front not from underneath because I don't yeah the width of the board so we're going to grab some different handles I'm going to blame my wife because as you saw in that previous video I mean she was the one who pulled them out of the bin so clearly it's her fault uh no it was mine I picked them. All right that's okay we'll grab the new ones then we get back to it. All right let's walk through the assembly step one get the boards together you can use wood glue you can use pegs that you use drill holes for here I'm using hangers from the back of picture frames and just hammering the nails in to keep them lightly in place while I do the rest of my work that's not the final way that I'm going to do them then I drill lead holes into the four corners of the metal uh the drill bits have been are tough enough and rated that they can you know drill through metal so we're good to go there and then I start attaching them in place with screws to get everything nice and sealed down all the screws I'm using have flush flat heads that probably has a name I don't know name stuff just so everything is nice and flat against the metal one thing I'll note is I really don't know anything about craft stuff or carpentry or anything like that so if I get got things wrong hey drop it down in the comments I'd love to learn uh because this is all just me basically teaching myself I draw lead drill lead holes for the handles and put them at the very edges so I can grab it easily and lift it out and then screw those in my next move is to sand down the wood I want to make sure there's no because we did screw a lot in I'm using five eighths uh length screws so that that way I don't puncture the bottom of the thing I don't want to tear up somebody's nice game mat or anything like that so I sand it all down from where my lead holes might have pushed through slightly then I take a couple pieces of rubber or something like that this was uh extra pieces from a mat I cut down from my game board when the size of the table shrank and I'm just going to hot glue it to the bottom of the thing in the center um just to kind of one push these two together but more importantly to give it some grip when it's sitting in there it isn't completely flush with the edges of the bin and so I don't want it sliding or bouncing back and forth any little thing like this can do you could use any kind of high friction element and just glue it onto the bottom it's not a big deal uh but I get both of those attached so it's going to be nice and secure uh on the bottom there but really it's pretty simple it's attach the two boards together or one board if you can cut the right size drill your lead holes screw in your metal put on the handles put in a grippy thing on the bottom and tada it's attached and that's the kind of grip you want with those magnets the magnets are neodymium 52s which is the strength that I like because that holds your armies nice and tough looks like this thing's ready to go let's get a an army on there all right so there we go all done case is all made armies all loaded ready for my games all in this was about $70 if you figure the double purchase of the handles but you can do it cheaper of course uh the wood that I've always fairly nice that kind of stuff but you don't have to spend this much the key is to have something that's removable that's efficient that lets you move your army safely and I think this certainly meets that I'd love to see you put down in the comments where you think I could have done better or what I messed up because lord knows as I said earlier uh this kind of craft project isn't really my specialty but uh I hope I got by if you liked this give it a like subscribe for more hobby cheating in the future uh if you've got any questions about what I did here or the products I used feel free to drop that down in the comments I always answer every comment but as always I very much appreciate you watching this one and we'll see you next time