"6mm Flight Stands" Topic

Hello all, I'm wargaming in 6mm scale (WWII Armor/Infantry) and have some aircraft I want to use in air to ground support role. I've not bought any flight stands yet. But I don't know exactly how the plane mounts to the flight stand. Do I drill a hole in the bottom of the plane?

Also can you recommend a good flight stand I should use for this scale? Thanks for your help. Don't need more than 2 flight stands (I don't think).

Here is my take on a flight stand.

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Allows rolling the plane at any angle and pitch from straight up to straight down. With the clothes pin and the stick you can also show altitude.

For 6mm I use Litko flight stands, available in the US.

They do different sizes of clear base and I use either 1inch or 20mm bases, available in packs of 10 for a few dollars. They do clear pegs of varying lengths and for a tabletop battle I use 1 or 2 inch lengths. The pegs are just push inserted into the base and can be removed for storage.

To attach the plane to the stand I glue a round 3mm diameter magnet of 2mm height to the top of the flight peg. You can get these magnets from various manufacturers and they can be quite cheap.

I glue x2 3 to 4mm lengths of ferrous wire together side by side in parallel to the underside of the plane (call them gun pods if you want). When they're together they form a bit of a flat platform that can rest on the magnet.

I've got a reel of 1mm thick wire about 20m long from a gardening shop for about 3 bucks years ago (actually a few quid but I translated 😊).

The plane should then click on to the magnet on top of the flight peg.

To get the plane to bank or nose up, down etc I place a small ferrous hex nut on the magnet.

So have a look at Litko, get some magnets and with a bit of gluing you should be OK.

B

In the Message Boards WW2 – Air, Check out the Getting Started with WWII Air and do a search for flight stands. Hits go back to 2005 on various do it yourself methods & materials (since you said you only need a couple) and how to mount the models (clips, magnets etc).