Lego flight stands.

[Lord of Jerwood]

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.

[dampfpanzerwagon]

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

Tony

[Gunbird]

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.

[von Lucky]

great idea.

(These are 1/600 aircraft?)

[FramFramson]

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.

[mellis1644]

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.

[Wyrmalla]

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.

[HerbyF]

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

[Commander Roj]

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.

[mellis1644]

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.