Ships Stands - Thanks!!!

1 posts ยท Mar 15 1999

From: Kevin Walker <sage@c...>

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:35:03 -0600

Subject: Ships Stands - Thanks!!!

Many, many kudos to those that suggested using the square brass rods for
basing starships on.  3/32" rods fit well with little or no needed
modifications to the bases supplies by Geo-Hex and GZG.  The 1/16" rods
fit into redrilled holes on the miniatures I've worked on.

Before I was using the plastic posts, brass tubes. The major problem here was
that the mini turned on the stand with light bump.

The comment of using a small collar on the rod placed in the bottom of the
miniature is the right way to go.

BTW, this works well for some of those figures (BC and smaller - haven't
tried any larger) that are inconvenient or impossible to base at the center of
balance. Some of those Kr'vak ships look great but aren't easy to post
balanced.

Another nice point (mentioned earlier) is it's easy to vary the height of the
posts in 1 cm increments. This makes it possible to fly in a close formation
with the ships without scratching the paint jobs too much.

Now I just gotta go back and remount those ships I've already done. This is
the only time I'm glad I haven't finished a majority of the models I own.