Flying Aircraft stands

[Cloudman1961]

Hi

 

I’m building a Tamiya F14 Tomcat for a friend, but wants it built in flight.

 

Can anyone recommend somewhere that I can source a decent stand to put it on? Most of the builds you see are on the ground and having done some online research I don’t see too many options for in flight builds. 
 

You can get Airfix stands etc on eBay, but I’m looking for something of better quality.

 

Thanks in advance…

[Black Knight]

Its easy peasy to make one yourself. Especially as you are tackling an F-14!

some rod, brass, acrylic (clear or coloured) a bit of nice wood for the base,

Paint or colour stain the piece of wood. Dill a hole in it. Insert rod. On t'other end of rod put the F-14. A hole drilled in it would help too.

 

Rod you can get in the metals section of B&Q. you might be able to an off-cut of MDF there as well. Last time I was in I got a big load of off-cuts for 50p

[Richard E]

To add to @Black Knight's answer.

 

As an alternative to MDF, if you have access to a good saw and drill you can source an offcut of hard wood, for instance oak or mahogany, from Ebay for a reasonable price.

[Cloudman1961]

Thanks Guys (Didn’t realise Linda Lusardi was into our kind of modelling 😉)

I was hoping to avoid going down that route but thanks - it’s a great approach. I have an off cut of oak in the garage, I’ll have to source a piece of aluminium and maybe a ball and socket joint.