Raiden 1:285th Aircraft now available!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

For them or you?

[slugbalancer]

There are some strange entries in this list. The Martin MB5 (which never got into production) or the Boeing P26 and some real oddities in the German WWII section.

Many aircraft that were too late to see action and those that never made it to a production line can be used if the war continues past 1945.  I've got a whole group of aircraft that come into that area.  It's the death knell of the prop aircraft.

The MB5 was a wonderful aircraft.  Killed off by the turbojet.

[fsn]

For them or you?

Buy two, get one free I think.

[Techno]

Neither, Will.

They get stressed.......and so do we.

At least we don't have to bring them over the road, this year. We'll just have to wait until Dave, (the shearer) arrives and then his dog can drive them into the barn. (She's rather good at that .......Thankfully )

Buy two, get one free I think.

No.....Once these two have died, we won't get anymore, Nobby.......If we need any of the fields grazed down, we'll borrow some.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Stands - drill a hole in the underside and cut a short peice from a paperclip and superglue into hole. Get an unused cotton bud, and art board or similar glue some more from the paper clip onto the art board cover with filler, after gluing a peice of the cotton bud tube onto the paper clip. Use the cotton wool bits on yet more bases as markers for shell bursts etc. This wont work with B52's or Vulcans.....I have tried

[slugbalancer]

For stands I use these plastic stands from Brigade models.

http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Accessories/Items/ACC-001.html

I glue magnets to the top of the stand and one on the underneath of the aircraft.

[Last Hussar]

F14s, 16s and 18s, but no opponents.

Though with Trump in charge maybe the Swedish stuff...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I glue magnets to the top of the stand and one on the underneath of the aircraft.

I used to do that, but my magnets sheared off after a cold snap.

[fred.]

Mine didn't even need the cold snap to come off the flight stands (they do seem to stay on the aircraft better, perhaps as they can be counter sunk a bit). A tip I found later was to coat the magnet and top of flight stand with PVA to hep seal it all together.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I drill the stand, pin it, drill a hole in the plane, next to the magnet works well.

[fred.]

I'm not quite sure I follow, but are you saying, you ignore the magnet, and just use a pin to hold the plane to the stand?

[slugbalancer]

I've rarely had a magnet come off of a stand, mostly due to the strength of magnet I use.  The super glue loses the battle.  As the magnet on the aircraft is usually seated in a hole, they tend to stay put.

I find that some of the larger aircraft need two stands/magnets for stability.  One of mine has three stands/magnets.

[fred.]

Are your stands metal, or plastic? It is gluing the magnets to plastic stands that I find is the weak point.