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Hey Mark you've probably done this but I can't find the post of your finished Mirage. But can you explain how you made the stand for the plane? I'm going to do that for my F-106 since I want to mask as little as possible.
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YG,
here's a link to the post, http://www.finescale.com/FSM/CS/forums/652058/ShowPost.aspx
You can sort of see the stand. If you are happy to wait a few days I'll be seeing my parents so I'll be able to get a photo of the stand on it's own.
I've made another one for a F-111 http://www.finescale.com/FSM/CS/forums/655211/ShowPost.aspx
I bought the base from a trophy shop for a couple of bucks.
The uprights are some aluminium tube that I got from my LHS and on the mirage the cradle that supports the ac is aluminium tube, on the F-111 it's just coathanger wire sanded with some 600 grit paper then polished with some metal polish.
The coat hanger wire worked best as it is easier to work and didn't cost me anything. (The shirt that used to hang on it is now a rag, win win.)
I drilled the base on the angle I wanted the uprights to sit. The fit was pretty tight so no glue required.
I then bent the wire to form each half of the cradele, set them in the tube and then crimped the tube with pliers to hold them in place. They did need some epoxy to stop them from moving around as I couldn't crimp the tube hard enough.
The mirage one took a while to work but once that was done the F-111 took about 5 mins to make.
I didn't think they were too good myself, I'm really surprised at the responses I've had to them.
Hope I've explaned it well enough, any questions feel free to ask.
Mark