"Flight stands and rare earth magnets?" Topic

I've read through some posts here mentionaling the use of small rare earth magnets and flight stands. Can someone who uses these please care to explain how they go about making them? There a Yahoo group or website that has pics?

How do you show different elevations?

Thanks for any help

Zas

I have recently tried some on some spaceship models. If this experiment turns out ok I may use them on my WWI airplanes.

I got some Neodymium Disc Magnets, glued one magnet onto the bottom of the model (into the hle for a mounting peg) and another on the top on=f the flight stand (after cutting off the little peg at the top that is supposed to fit into the hole).

The Neodymium magnets are quite strong. The ones I got are 2 and 3 mm in diameter. They seem to hold the models quite well, although I haven't tried the biggest models yet (still painting). They attach and detach from the stands easily when you want them to, but stay put pretty well otherwise.

I ordered mine from shop4tools.co.uk
here in Britian, but I'm sure there are plenty of places in the States as well. Use Google for Noeodymium Magnets and I'm sure you'll find a bunch of places.

I intend to post some picks at Starship Combat News soon, but of course, I have other things I have to do so I don't know when I'll get them there. If its in a couple of days I'll mention here.

David

"How do you show different elevations?"

I use flight stands made of walky-talky antennaes from Radio Shack. They can show 5 different altitude levels.

Clay

Please go to my site to see what I've done for my 1/144 metal WWI aircraft: link

Basically I used the same methods as mentioned by D Stokes and Clay.

What size would likely work for 1/72 models?
And could you get away with using a rare earth magnet on the flight stand and a metal washer on the aircraft?

Thanks,

John

I have placed a 10mm diameter neodymium magnet inside the fuselage of a plastic 1/72 biplane and it had excellent holding characteristics when used with the magnetic retrieval tool.

Don't know about the metal washer on the aircraft method but it's worth testing.

Go to the GHQ forums and check out a thread titled Temporary Basing and Securing Turrets (I think that's the title) by a 8ball. There's a whole slew of ways to use magnets including a post with pics from a guy who uses them for basing 1/700 aircraft.