Revel's response to my e-mail ;Why doesn't Revell provide nose weights to prevent tail sitters?

Believe it or not some modern day aircraft still use a tail stand during maintenance or cargo loading operations. If you choose to use a tail stand to keep it from being a tail dragger it is NOT out of the realm of possibilities. These items are removed just before flight and often carried as part of the aircraft's Minimum Equipment List.

armornut

Believe it or not some modern day aircraft still use a tail stand during maintenance or cargo loading operations. If you choose to use a tail stand to keep it from being a tail dragger it is NOT out of the realm of possibilities. These items are removed just before flight and often carried as part of the aircraft's Minimum Equipment List.

 

And then there was the Vari-eze, a homebuilt.  The cg in flight condition with pilot (and passenger if there was one) was fairly far aft, and so the main gear were even further aft.  With no one onboard, the CG moved aft beyond the gear.  So it wanted to sit on the tail naturally.  Since it was a pusher with the prop back there, that was not a good idea.  So to park it, when the pilot got out, but still holding on, he retracted the nose gear (the main did not retract).  The plane then sat on its nose!  Rotating it that far forward brought the empty plane's CG back ahead of the main gear!

armornut

Believe it or not some modern day aircraft still use a tail stand during maintenance or cargo loading operations. If you choose to use a tail stand to keep it from being a tail dragger it is NOT out of the realm of possibilities. These items are removed just before flight and often carried as part of the aircraft's Minimum Equipment List.

 

no..maybe..

Reasoned

no..maybe..

 

The trouble with some kits is the packing factor needed.  I forget what the packing factor of spheres is, but I'll bet the small amount of volume left in the nose in some kits calls for solid lead :-(

Viejo

 What about a pair of rare earth magnets.  one in the front  wheel, the other countersunk  in the base.....

 

Personally I like to use the low melting point metals and pour a weight in to the randome. quench it in water and move on. I built a model with a weight that came with it once and it promptly fell on its tail when I turned it over after the glue on the landing gear had hardened over night. I ended up drilling a hole in the model and poured in liquid resin to add some nose weight and sanded the hardened resin down to match the skin of the airplane. Now I fill the randome as far as possible even if its more than I need.