by georgeadams

I wanted a building and painting stand for my scale model planes. Searching Thingiverse, I discovered the stand by esorreta that was almost like I what I was looking for.

I applied some modifications to better fit my needs:

• Longer horizontal arms: I mostly build 1/48 scale planes so I liked the arms to be a bit longer.

• Longer vertical sliders: able to use different sliders of different length depending on the model.

• Simpler one-piece design of the fuselage saddles and wing fixed saddles for easier printing.

• Thumbwheels with nuts for locking the sliders in place (I used a design similar to thumbwheels for 3D printer heated bed leveling).

• Interlocking arms/cross center to not having to use glue.

• Screw holes to be able to fix the stand on an IKEA SNUDDA rotating board.

Print Settings

Printer brand:

Anycubic

Printer:

Kossel

Rafts:

No

Supports:

No

Resolution:

0.2

Infill:

20%

Filament brand:

Generic

Filament color:

White

Filament material:

PLA

Parts List and Assembly Notes

Parts List

Printed Parts

• A: 4 pieces of any combination of A1_Slotted_Arm_Long, A1_Slotted_Arm_Medium orA1_Slotted_Arm_Short that fits your needs (note 1)

• B: 1 piece of B_Cross_Center and 1 piece B_Cross_Center_Cover

• C: 4 pieces of C_Horizontal_Slider

• D: 4 pieces of D_Horizontal_Slider_Stopper

• E: 2 pieces of E1_Fuselage_Vertical_Slider or E1_Fuselage_Vertical_Slider_Long (note 2)

• F: 2 pieces of F1_Wing_Vertical_Slider_Fixed or F1_Wing_Vertical_Slider_Fixed_Long (note 2 & note 3)

• G: 2 pieces of G1_Wing_Vertical_Slider_Hinged or G1_Wing_Vertical_Slider_Hinged_Long (note 2 & note 3)

• H: 2 pieces of H_Wing_Saddle_Hinged (note 3)

• I: 8 pieces of I_Thumbwheel

Non Printed Parts

8 pieces of M3 x 12mm screws
1 piece of M3 x 10mm screw (note 1)
9 pieces of M3 hexagonal nuts (note 1)

Optional Non Printed Parts
1 piece of IKEA SNUDDA round rotating board
5 pieces of 3x12mm wood screws

Notes

Note 1
When using it with SNUDDA:
Use 4 pieces of A1_Slotted_Arm_Long.
Use 4 wood screws to fix the Slotted Arms to the SNUDDA.
Use 1 wood screw instead of the M3x10mm screw and the 9th nut in the center cross to fix it to the SNUDDA.

Note 2
You can print both lenghs of vertical sliders and use them interchangeably depending of the scale model you are building.

Note 3
For the hinged version of the wing sliders, print 2 pieces of G and 2 pieces of H. I used a 1mm drill to clear the holes and and straightened-out paper clips.