Acrylic 1/18 aircraft display stand

fightin · Post by **fightin** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:30 am

PM sent.

pizzaguy · Post by **pizzaguy** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:10 pm

Update: The stands have left the building. Thanks for everyones patience. Post some pics when you have a chance.

mcaulk · Post by **mcaulk** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:59 am

The pics have dissapeared? Would like to get a F-14 / 1/18th scale stand for the JSI bird.

Mike

pizzaguy · Post by **pizzaguy** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:37 am

mcaulk. PM sent

JOC · Post by **JOC** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:00 pm

PizzaGuy:
I also would like to get a stand for my bird.
Pls PM with cost for regular and special.
Thanks
JOC

pcoughran · Post by **pcoughran** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:59 pm

Pizzaguy,
I got the F14 stand today (Yeah!!!) My wife says thank you too as the bird has been upside down on the Dining room table since Christmas. After all the bad luck with my landing gear and my total disappointment with the product up to this point, your beautiful stand has brought some sunlight back into my day.
Thanks again.
Phil

fightin · Post by **fightin** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:20 pm

Very neat display, pcoughran.

Tanker85 · Post by **Tanker85** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:07 pm

PM sent.

Thanks
Eric

dragon53 · Post by **dragon53** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:21 pm

PCOUGHRAN:

Your F-14 looks really impressive. Did you use strictly Gojoe or did you repaint yours?

pcoughran · Post by **pcoughran** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:40 pm

dragon53 wrote:PCOUGHRAN:

Your F-14 looks really impressive. Did you use strictly Gojoe or did you repaint yours?

After spending about 45 minutes GoJoing one of the fuel tanks, I noticed DeanKleines' post about the makeup pad repaint method.
I spent about 3.5 hours meticulously masking everything off then was about to pull out the airbrush but figured I'd give the makeup pad method a try and it worked great. Instead of just doing the spots I basically "redabbed" the entire plane, so there are no portions that have a different "sheen". I'm planning at some point to add weathering. Will probably spray a semi-gloss over it then use ProModeller's wash. It's easy and looks pretty good. You can also take it off real easy if you don't like the way it looks.
It looks so good with the factory finish I just decided to leave it for now.

dragon53 · Post by **dragon53** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:51 am

PCOUGHRAN:

Thanks for the info. I'll post more questions about Deankleines method in the appropriate thread. His method sure looks like an affordable cure for Tomcat measles.

JOC · Post by **JOC** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:37 am

Pizzaguy:
Just sent you an email concerning stand.
JOC

fly-dk · Post by **fly-dk** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:16 pm

Hi Pizzaguy

Got the stands and placed my F-14 and F-16 on them

The stands are amazing

I have send you a pm asking for more stands - if you still sell them

fightin · Post by **fightin** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:52 am

great display stands!

sorry for the poor image quality - I had to pump up ISO because of poor lighting in my room.

awesome work, pizzaguy!

pizzaguy · Post by **pizzaguy** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:16 am

Thank You. I'm glad I can contribute is some form.

fly-dk · Post by **fly-dk** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:41 pm

pizzaguy wrote:Thank You. I'm glad I can contribute is some form.

Your stands are amazing

Did you get my pm concerning new orders?

AMERICAN_GRENADIER · Post by **AMERICAN_GRENADIER** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:57 pm

firefox91 · Post by **firefox91** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:22 pm

I got my F-14 stand today and it looks great! My only problem was trying to get the plane on it because the plane is so heavy and you have to be selective as to where you hold it. That has pretty much been the case with it since I got it.

Clearly Pizza Guy has been making these stands for a while so no doubt they are sturdy. But I am a little concerned about the weight of the plane being a factor. No doubt it is heavier than any other 1:18 scale plane. I hope it can handle that long term. My F-14 is on a very high shelf. If it comes down, it will quite literally be a crash and burn.

bobb428 · Post by **bobb428** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 6:23 pm

I got mine today and the thing is cool as heck! Hope it stands the test of time.
Bob

pizzaguy · Post by **pizzaguy** » Thu May 27, 2010 6:20 am

A guy off ebay had seen my stands and asked if I could build it bigger. I asked how big? 18" tall.

???
This thing is HUGE!!
The dimensions are 18"H x 15"W x 12"D.

Don't make fun of the Spotty Cat. I have a plan. With everyone repainting theirs mine will be the only original left = $$$. I'll let you know in fourty years how that works out.

Black_Dragon_One · Post by **Black_Dragon_One** » Thu May 27, 2010 8:56 am

pizzaguy wrote:A guy off ebay had seen my stands and asked if I could build it bigger. I asked how big? 18" tall. ???
This thing is HUGE!!
The dimensions are 18"H x 15"W x 12"D.

Don't make fun of the Spotty Cat. I have a plan. With everyone repainting theirs mine will be the only original left = $$$. I'll let you know in fourty years how that works out.

hay those remove flight things look good... i still haven't finish final to get to them

good job

that height it too scary to leave my bird

pizzaguy · Post by **pizzaguy** » Thu May 27, 2010 8:21 pm

Thanks, I have some RBF covers up on Ebay.
Here's what I finally got done. Sax5thave is sending me a new pitot tube to get the cover made for it. Since I now have a F18 I was planing on making some covers for it, F16, Blackhawk, Huey, Apache and Cobra.

Could anyone tell me what the object is below the nose cone? Landing light or Radar? Just Curious.

Before:

After:

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Thu May 27, 2010 8:28 pm

Looks good!!!!!!

iballdriver · Post by **iballdriver** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:54 am

had my f-14 stand sitting empty (limited space, the 'cat is still in the box) and was dusting my shelf last night. I have my f104 'george sitting out displayed on the landing gear and decided to try and use the stand with the -104. it works great! i was able to make some more space on my shelf. Pizzaguy, are you still building the stands?
bc

DocTodd · Post by **DocTodd** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:28 pm

I don't know how I missed these stands, I even commented early in the thread. I would be interested in an F-18, and F-16 stand.
T

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