I’m wondering if anyone knows of a place that sells display stands for aircraft models? Or if you have any tips on making them yourself?
The only one I’ve found is at mycreativedisplays.com, and they appear to be sold out or discontinued.
I’ve seen them at shows where they have a clear plastic/styrene tube that goes into the exhaust of the jet and bends back to connect to a base. Is that a homebuilt job or does somebody sell them?
The only ones I have seen are these ones that Micro-Mark sells for $22.95
Mike
I think most stands that mount a flying aircraft are scratch built. I’m actually looking to do that myself for a 1/72 A-4 I am almost done with. So, does anyone know a good place to clear acrylic rods?
I have had success with using the new style of camera tripod for digital and very small cameras.They are small and cheap and can be used as for a camera or inverted and place aircraft on the three legs with the camera attachment screw drilled into a piece of wood or perspex.
Try contacting Albert at Creative Displays: http://www.mycreativedisplays.com/main.php3?primNavIndex=4&
I’ve been looking around for places to buy acrylic rods and sheets of about 0.5" thick to make displays from. Haven’t found any yet. Anybody have a good source?
John
Make a display stand youself…it is easy. For the base go to your local craft store and buy a pre-cut piece of wood, these are usually used for wall plaques, and come in a variety of different sizes and shapes, but usually need to be stained or painted. For the stand there a couple of ways to go. First, the easiest way to go is to use coated clothes wire hanger cut to length. Drill a hole in the base and super glue or epoxy one end of the wire in the hole, then gentle bend the wire for the aircraft position you want. Usually there is some kind of hole or other opening in the aircraft that the end of the wire can be inserted into. The trick is to leave youself enough wire(leave more than you think you will need, you can cut it off later) to work up into the aircraft. You may need to bend the wire a little bit in order for it to hold the aircraft at the right angle, just play with it untill it is right. Another way to do it is to use the same base set up, but instead of the wire use acrylic rod or a wooded dowel. What I do is use a 1/8" phono jack(available at you local electronics store) and build the female part right into the model that will be displayed. The male part is married into the acrylic rod or wooded dowel. This works great, because the model can be easly removed and reattached at will.
A good source for acrylic rod is: WWW.TAPPLASTICS.COM