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Title: Lego flight stands.
Post by: Lord of Jerwood on October 04, 2014, 08:11:15 PM

Hi folks

I saw this idea on someone blog (but can't remember where) It's flight stands for 1/600 aircraft made out of lego pieces. The green one is attached to the aircraft and the clear one's can be removed to add and decrease hight.

(http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx54/jamie1907/planes/IMG_0190_zpsd69bf9ac.jpg) (http://s741.photobucket.com/user/jamie1907/media/planes/IMG_0190_zpsd69bf9ac.jpg.html)

(http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx54/jamie1907/planes/IMG_0189_zpsb1dd46c1.jpg) (http://s741.photobucket.com/user/jamie1907/media/planes/IMG_0189_zpsb1dd46c1.jpg.html)

(http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx54/jamie1907/planes/IMG_0188_zps98a78d71.jpg) (http://s741.photobucket.com/user/jamie1907/media/planes/IMG_0188_zps98a78d71.jpg.html)

(http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx54/jamie1907/planes/IMG_0187_zps8cae0132.jpg) (http://s741.photobucket.com/user/jamie1907/media/planes/IMG_0187_zps8cae0132.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: dampfpanzerwagon on October 04, 2014, 08:18:22 PM

Now that is a fantastically good idea. Consider it well and truly stolen, I mean borrowed.

Tony

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: Gunbird on October 04, 2014, 10:44:28 PM

I know which Blog you mean, cause I went out and bought the pieces after reading it. But the Blog I saw must have been, lets see, 2 jobs, 2x unemployment, 2009-2010-ish? I dont have the link anymore, but the idea was brilliant, easy to execute and very cheap.

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: von Lucky on October 05, 2014, 12:02:53 AM

great idea.

(These are 1/600 aircraft?)

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: FramFramson on October 05, 2014, 12:48:40 AM

Excellent idea!

A crafty soul could even mount the airplane on a peg that fits into the top, so that you can use different coloured top cylinders to denote levels of damage/status issues.

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: mellis1644 on October 05, 2014, 01:27:36 AM

I saw this idea a few years ago and have been using it since then. Works a treat and looks good on the table with 1/600 aircraft as well. You can even use different colour blocks to help visual queue's if you like.

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: Wyrmalla on October 05, 2014, 01:34:35 AM

The guys who play a load of WWII games do the same thing (though in a larger scale, 1/72 I think). Though rather than having clear bits they tend to have a striped pattern (...well for as long as they can be bothered given how often the planes change altitude). Neat, and certainly simpler than using magnets.

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: HerbyF on October 05, 2014, 02:24:16 AM

What a great idea. I will have to keep it in mind.

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: Commander Roj on October 05, 2014, 09:59:03 PM

Quote from: HerbyF on October 05, 2014, 02:24:16 AM

What a great idea. I will have to keep it in mind.

I have used this extensively for 1:600 aircraft, but the height changing idea doesn't work that well in my opinion. I am not saying it is a dead loss, but a bit too fiddly, especially i ally with more planes and lots of height changes. I am still using them as bases, for various models, but I will move over to clear flying stands for the planes eventually. I used a magnet in the hole. A 3mm magnet fits perfectly. I will continue to use them for grav tanks, and my Stingray models and even some space games. And I will probably get some additional colours, perfect for alien grav vehicles.

Title: Re: Lego flight stands.
Post by: mellis1644 on October 06, 2014, 03:16:57 PM

Dice on the base work as well but the Lego for height does look cool for 1/600.

We tend to use dice on bases/CY6 bases for bombers which do not change height much, while fighters tend to use the lego.