UPDATE!
After MONTHS on order , my bases from element turned up! I have NO IDEA why these have been out of stock for so long all over the place, but element have been very good about letting me know order dates and delays and offered to repay me a couple of times, So i'm still happy with their service.
In the picture here you can see i've mounted the biplane on a new warlord flying stand. I bought a pack of these to use instead of the octagonal ones, But they're pretty rubbish for anything big. The bases are too small to balance a ship properly, and warlord have gone with a random heights bag rather that giving you a choice of heights, so i only got 1 long stand, 1 medium and a whole load of small ones that I'm just going to use as sculpting stands.
but expect more progress on this project soon!