Panavise 883 for SS

[Robiwon]

I ordered a Panavise 883 for my Salzo V2 X-Wing.
http://www.securityideas.com/pa88temo.html
It should be here this weekend hopefully. What is the general method of connecting the ship to the stand? If using a threaded insert, how are you secruing that to the ship? Is epoxy enough to withstand the stress? If you used a different method can you post about it? How many have used an 883? And last, where is the best place on the bottom hull of an X-Wing to mount it, where the plate is? Is the plate a good balance point? Thanks!

 

[vaderdarth]

On my Salzo X wing, I used a piece of threaded rod that I threaded into one end of the insert............I epoxied the insert and the whole rod inside the body of the Xwing extending to the nose. This secures the insert and also anchors it. Then you just screw the panavise into the threaded insert when you get ready to mount it. You can do like ILM and add multiple inserts for different angles for photographing them.

Dave

 

[Robiwon]

FedEx says it's to be delivered today. It also seems the balance point is well behind the bottom plate on the ship. Now I just have to wait for my base to arrive!

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

FedEx says it's to be delivered today. It also seems the balance point is well behind the bottom plate on the ship. Now I just have to wait for my base to arrive!

I'm in the same boat. Panavise on order. Uncertain how to get the insert properly secured to the model. Glad you concur that the best mount point is rear of the sloping plate. I don't want the stand blocking the view of that part of the ship. Anyway, I'm going to need a real idiot guide on how to do this - couldn't even follow Vaderdarth's help too well...!

 

[vaderdarth]

Colin mine is mounted from the rear of the fuselage. I didn't want a hole in the sloping plate. My panavise mount is on the wall as if the x wing is flying out of the wall. Not sure that will help.

Dave

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

Colin mine is mounted from the rear of the fuselage. I didn't want a hole in the sloping plate. My panavise mount is on the wall as if the x wing is flying out of the wall. Not sure that will help.

Dave

Ah, I see. What confused me was that I thought you'd mounted it from below and therefore had somehow attached the receiver insert for the panvise perpendicularly into the long pole you placed inside the fuselage - and that was the step I couldn't figure out...

I'm mounting mine behind that sloping plate, in the rear fuselage belly, as I've seen others here do. I'm a total dolt when it comes to nuts and bolts. The only insert I've been able to get hold of that fits the panavise thread is hexagonal. Since the hole is going to be round, is this useless? Or, if I get it into the hole, will the epoxy fill the excess space and make a good solid join? Or is such a hope just rank, blithering idiocy?

 

[Robiwon]

Colin, I'm sending you an ebay link that shows the type of brass insert I used. Not sure if I could post it in the thread so I'm sending a link.

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

Colin, I'm sending you an ebay link that shows the type of brass insert I used. Not sure if I could post it in the thread so I'm sending a link.

Got it. You're a Good Man! Eternally grateful to you for this...

 

[Robiwon]

Not a problem Colin. Glad I could help. What kind of base are you going to do by the way?

 

[Less than Super Ostrich]

Someone posted awhile ago that there was a bolt/peg that fit in to the threaded end of the Panavise. This was sold by a camera shop... I can't remember the specifics.

 

[Robiwon]

Yeah, on the top of the mount is a threaded rod. It screws into the mount and is basically just a super long 1/4 Allen set screw. I didn't think about a camera shop as Lowes didn't have anything close!

On the insert I used the threaded rod stops at the top of the insert. Not enough stuck out for me to secure it with a nut or anything. A longer screw would have helped here. I just put a few dabs of blue thread lock on it to lock it in place. If I find a longer screw I may replace it. At this point I'm not worried about it as everything is nice and solid.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

Not a problem Colin. Glad I could help. What kind of base are you going to do by the way?

I just want a plain, featureless slab, probably black. Basically the monolith from 2001 on its back. Not keen on an out-of-scale piece of Death Star inches below a 1/24 X-wing. Sorry, men, I never much liked that idea. I'll probably just get one of the local bespoke cabinet makers here to work up a nice plain black slab out of some heavy wood or other.

Looking at the photo of your panavise I see it's in one piece. I had to order the tilting knuckle at the top separately. Perhaps because I was going through a British dealer. I'm just praying the threaded insert you guided me to is going to fit this knuckle. No reason why not, I suppose... Won't know until mid-April when the stand gets brought to me from England.

 

[ralphee]

10mm black acrylic works as a very nice ILM esque base guys, just order it with polished edges, even order two sheets and step them, they really attract dust though :lol but look the mutts!

lee

 

[Robiwon]

Another idea for a nice finished plain base is a cutting board from Walmart or similiar. I boought a cheap, $6 board and painted it black. I used it under my ProShop X-Wing. Looked real nice.