I read with interest about these paint stands. Been there-done that. the first photo is my first building/painting fixture. I bought this one about forty years ago. It's kinda of cruddy looking with so much use and coats of paint, but still works fine. I think I paid about $30 for it and thought it was high at the time. It immediately demonstrated its worth when attached to my work bench for building. I used this both as a building and painting fixture. It held every airplane that I built or painted in all these years. About six months ago and I needed it on the bench for assembling a profile Bearcat and, despite endless searches, it was nowhere to be found.
Finally, I gave up, and had a new replacement made by my favorite machinist, Dirk Tollenaar. Again, it was a bit pricey ($50) but was very welcome to have a building fixture on my work bench. About the time I finished building the Bearcat, and posting the story about the loss of my original fixture, it came home. It seems that it had been "borrowed out" for a couple of years until my lost story was posted. What the heck, now I wont have to paint on the pretty one.
I can't emphasize the utility of these things. I was lost without mine. The additional photos show some of the many ways it supported my models for both building and painting. It spends days on the bench when building, minutes on the red cart when painting. I build and paint mask at my bench. Painting is done mostly tied to my red roll around cart, which doesn't show very well. It's also used on anything else that the fixture can be clamped on like the ladder which shows in one photo.
Al
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