ceiling displays

I used to hang some aircraft from the ceiling using a very thin nylon string (which is practically invisible).

I did the same as above when I was looking for room for all my aircraft in my high school days. I haven't done anything on a ceiling display since because I haven't heard of anything better.

Until I have a enough wall space. (Shelves would compete with artwork at the moment). I will hang them from the ceiling using fishing line. If my wife would let me take over another room, I could display them on shelves.

Definitely fishing line. My sci-fi starships all came with pretty flimsy stands so it was almost essential to "fly" them. It is a challenge to find the right place to wrap the line on some of those curving hulls, but they look fantastic when you get them up there. Now if I could only find a way to keep the dust off them...

Fishing line is the way to go...but heres something I do...depending on how and where the line will be secured to the model...I'll fold over some masking tape on the monofilament its self so as to not damage the paint. For example if Im hanging a plane. I'll sometimes loop the line over the wings and the line that makes contact with the wing will get wrapped in tape.(I've learned less damage can occur this way) and tie an Improved clinch knot in the line and its there to stay!
Chris

HEY,
I use fishing line too. The great thing about hanging them is if you get a few of the same type, you cam make them be in formation during a turn. What i want to see somebody do is make all of the Blue Angels planes and put them in formation. Just thought that would be pretty cool.

Randy

One neat trick I have used is to cut tiny notches into what will become the seam lines on bombs once they are together. I lay fishing line in the notches before I put the bomb halves together. Once the glue is dry, one can string the bombs underneath the bomb bay as if they were dropping and with the fishing line going through the bomb it is very hard to see.

A word of caution: Make the notches before you build the bombs. Drilling small holes in bombs and then trying to "fish" fishing line through those holes can be very difficult. And don't ask me how I know that; you know how I know that.

Neet idea, thanks nwilliams! How close do you place them to the a/c or do you have high cellings?

Okay guys, time to make everyone jealous. My wife encourages me to hang my planes from the ceiling!!! When I ran out of shelf space, she suggested that I hang them from the ceiling and if I run out of room in the spare bedroom I could start hanging them in the living room. Haven't done it yet, but IT IS NICE knowing that I can do it!! (PLEASE, nobody be mad at me)

For what it is worth I hang only those models that would take up to much room on a shelf, such as 1/144 Jumbo jets, 1/32 and 1/48 scale fighters etc..I ran out of shelf and ceiling room so I put the older finished models in flat large boxes for transporting to airshow displays and such. As for dust, let it happen , and every couple of years take the models down and lay them on an old window screen and wash them down with a fine mist from the garden hose. i use my hobby shop (9 by 25 feet) and an unused bedroom for displays but my wife ( GOD love her) wont let me put them in the living room or any where else. Fred Amos