Re: Flight stands, was Re: [OFFICIAL] New ESU ships:

Well if you were going to make bases I'd rather see them circular. Hex 
bases have edges, which over the years seem to allow miniatures to fall 
over in one of six directions. The miniatures I have mounted on circular

based are far less prone to fall over.

Well there has been no study of the behaviour only observations over the

years.

Jim

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> Jon T. wrote:
>
>>> So when are you going to start selling *small* metal hex stands for 
>>> use with lighter classes? IIRC you should have a production mould 
>>> for them stashed away somewhere ;-)
>>
>>
>> Rather depends if there is a demand for them.... do folks want to see

>> them in production?
>
>
> How will there ever be a demand for them if you never tell anyone that

> they exist? <g>
>
> When I custom-ordered mine, you said that you'd have to make a 
> production mould for them since I needed so many. If you did that, it 
> shouldn't be that much extra work to cast a few to put on display at 
> Salute and/or ask Paul to put them into the web store... that way 
> you'll soon learn if there's a demand for them <g> ('Course, if you 
> *didn't* make a production mould for them it'd be a lot more work for 
> you now too!)
>
>> We're talking about a small metal hex base about (from memory - I 
>> don't have one here to measure - OO?) 18mm or so across, to take 
>> either a metal or plastic post.
>
>
> 14mm between opposite sides, 16mm between opposite corners. I use them

> for ships up to FF size or thereabouts which don't extend very far 
> outside the base, and I typically mount these ships on half-height 
> posts (either the short GW ones or standard plastic ones cut down to 
> size) so the small ships can fit under larger ones when they are in 
> base-to-base contact (or even with bases overlapping, since the small 
> hex bases are flat and relatively thin).
>
> Later,
>
> Oerjan
> oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry
>
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