Shrike stands

I haven't posted anything for a while, somehow just seem to be too busy, but I have managed to keep viewing others posts and to throw in a vote for the engine of the month competitions.

Last year over covid, like others, I spent a lot of time at home, which is normal for me anyway, with the only real inconvenience during our lockdown being that I couldn’t go out and buy any parts I needed.
This meant that I could do all those jobs where I had already squirreled away the bits needed but never seemed to find time to get to.
Well, one such job was making stands for my Shrike tether cars.

I see quite a few of this type of thing being done on 3D printers but I don’t have one and I tend to do things the old-fashioned way anyway.
I also managed to finally finish cleaning, repairing or full restoration of all my Shrikes.
So here goes.

First, I made a prototype.



Then once I was happy with that, I started on production.
Ten Shrikes, one custom Shrike and one Prop Rod called for twelve stands.
Prototype in top left corner.



Then the supports were glued to the rear of the stands.



Then nailed for extra support.
Overkill I know but I sleep better for doing it.  



In the bottom right corner, two have extra modifications.
The hole is to allow for the switch on the R/C Shrike and the extra piece on top of the one beside it
is for the custom Bumble Bee Shrike which has taller wheels.
 


Since the wood is quite plain, I added a bit of Kiwi grain, also known as shoe nugget.  



Then a couple of coats of boiled linseed oil and wallah.  



And here they all are. Every variation (that I know of) of Cox Shrike production.