Here's an idea that I just gave a try tonight. At Home Depot I picked up a piece of 3/4" conduit, some PVC tube and fittings that would just let the conduit slide through and rotate, a couple of small "U" bolts with matching wing nuts, and a couple of hitch pins. I then cut, hammered, drilled, and assembled the conduit and PVC tubing as shown. Then, I just drilled holes into the stationary platform of my trusty "Workmate" for the "U" bolts and fastened the whole assembly with the wing nuts underneath and PRESTO, I had a portable paint stand! The hitch pins are really just for insurance so that the conduit holding the model can't work it's way out of the holder as you're spinning it around during painting, really ruining your evening. You can pop the hitch pins out to slide the model out of the holder if necessary, and the whole works goes on and off of the "Workmate" in a few seconds.    

 Ready for painting...

Great Idea; I've been using a paint stand (purchased from Byron Barker . . . am I remembering the name right?) and just love it! I'm going to work on one that holds the plane in a vertical position too. I may feed off of your ideas.

Brian

That was easy!

Your "stand off" bolt arrangement for the motor mount clamp seems to work well. Looks like you got good coverage all around the motor mounts. Is that an original idea also?

Very slick  . Thanks for the idea. Like Brian, think I'll see what it takes to copy that vertically (don't have a Workmate, for one thing)

       Larry Fulwider

I like this! Lightweight, stores easily, and rotates nicely, no 'shudder' from friction.

I have been using my medium-duty rolling engine stand (!) with a sliding internal tube (2" dia.) that has a 3/16" X 1-1/2" flat tongue welded on  for the engine mounts on the fuse. Overkill? Maybe...but it ties up the engine stand, keeping me focused on the painting of the airplane without the temptation to wander back-and-forth to an unfinished assembly job on a V8! LOL

 Good eye Ward-O.  

 If you'd like to check out more details check out "Shark 402 project" and "Shark 402 progress" in the Open Forum. Real soon I'll have finished pics of it posted in the Open Forum.

My "Paint Stand" is even simpler. I ground a flat area onto a 3/8" rod. Then I tapped the rod for (2) 6/32 bolts. The bolts hold on plates for various engines. The plates are made from scrap plate stock (aluminum, steel or even plywood). The Shopmate has a Vee groove. The rod sits in the Vee groove snug it up and you can pivot the airplane. For larger wing spans you might have to block up the Shopmate. Cost is about $3 or $4 for the rod. Have done many airplanes with this set up over the last 15 years.