Flight stands - how many?

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Infantry Stands (5 styles! 3 sizes!) Major, Regular, and Minor Industrial Complexes Airfield and Shipyard Miniatures Pillboxes, circular and hexagonal Convoy and Kamikaze Zone markers Air Base, Naval Base, Research, and Recruitment tokens

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@Harvard3X1 said in Metal Flight Stands - Different height? Is there an interest?:

Deadline is getting really close & campaign goal has not been met… we need to spread the word !!! I know the game has never been the same since I purchased these stands; totally different feeling when playing & looking at the map!

We appreciate any effort to get this funded!

Of course, the campaign is only 17 days total to begin with so we’re about 1/4 of the way through. It would obviously be really nice to be higher than we’re at.

If things aren’t looking up by next weekend we may have to regroup.

Ask and you shall receive!

These are not readily available pegs from an online store.  The ones we used here are extruded acrylic rods that need to be cut to length. They have HIGH machine tolerance levels. What that means is they are 0.001"+/- from the advertised diameter, and they can be press fit into the base without glue. And no, they will not work loose. You need pliers and a lot of force to pull them apart. The base has more than enough density to stand up right with the biggest bombers in the game even if the table is knocked around. The base is a nickel coated steel 12mm in diameter that fits the center of the counter chips perfectly just like the infantry do.

Having just mentioned the infantry, the stands are 32mm tall from the table top to the tip of the peg, leaving more than enough room for that pesky japanese bayonet.

I hope the community enjoys them as much as I did making them for you!

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I am working on the same project myself.
I decided to use #10 nuts and #16 1_1/4" finishing nails. I am epoxying the nail in the nut.
I don’t think this will be a fast process, but it is saving money. My design will be a little taller than the FMG Flight Stands.
I was able to get an infantry with 5 chips under a bomber with no chips.
And the #10 Nut is small enough to fit inside the inner circle of your chips.
I figure it will cost are $0.12 USD per stand. So it should have me about $250.

Watching GHG’s video Wolfshanze posted helped too.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ja13z17x4yck67w/DIY_Flight_Stand.jpg

Very nice work. I’m way too unsteady of hand and mind to pull that off.

I went to the local dollar store and bought some plastic storage trays that fit all my pieces. The blue tack planes and stands all fit in one of the trays, so i don’t waste time breaking them down. The odd one i have to reattach, but the freeing of space on the board is worth any hassle. I think in time i will invest in the magnets for the stands and planes, would be nice to have every plane with magnets so the stands will be more universal.

I saw this thread after I made my own stickers, would had saved me time for the templates, glad to see im not the only one who like flight decks, though mine are not historically accurate, I made generic ones… don’t make fun :P

@jluna1273:

I have been working on my pieces and did this for for flight stands: The base is a simple wooden knob from Hobby Lobby (they fit perfectly on the chips), I bought a box of 250 pin needles for $3, I crazy glued the needle to the base, finally I heated the other end on an open flame and pushed it right into the bomber. I melted right in and its very secure.

Good idea.  It’s interesting how sometimes how the best results comes from clever yet simple solutions that aren’t obvious to think of.