3.2 ) Base Mount

Model displayed on a showcase platform and is usually firmly secured. Base can be made from wood, metal, plastic or CDs.

Example 1 : 1.35th scratch-built Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer with brick fascade on wooden display base. Screw drilled into bottom of model.

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Example 2 : 1.35th ITALERI Hetzer tank destroyer on stained wooden base. Screw drilled into bottom of model.


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1.48th F4U Corsair of US Marine Corp, Korean War, Winter 1950. Landing gears were glued in flight position. Attached velcro strip to bottom of model and onto base pedestal.

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1.72nd Do-217 night figther mounted a plastic pop-stickle stick and base. Base display came from a Sci-Fi Bablyon Star Furry model.

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1.48th US Army Air Force P-40 pursuit plane, early 1940s before US entry into the war. Small pins were drilled into the landing wheels, then glued onto the wooden base.

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1.48th P-51D Mustang figther mounted on plastic tube styrene shaft and medicine cap base. Cap was filled with clay to provide counterweight.