Show what you use to hold a body for painting...

[Terry Sumner]

I'm interested in seeing what everyone uses or what methods you use to hold a car body for spray painting. Can y'all just post up some photos of what gadgets you've cobbled up to hold that body while you shoot it please?

[Haubenschild]

I'll usually use a Tamiya paint stand , but for some kits I'll use a plastic bottle

[Fat Brian]

I use wire coat hangers for full size bodies, I bend the long bottom rod into a horse shoe shape that fits inside the body with enough tension to hold it but not enough to distort it badly. For smaller bodies I usually just glue it to a piece of long sprue in a place that won't be seen.

[camaroman]

I use a variety of things from a nice Shabo Paint Stand, coat hangers and old primer cans.

One of my nest buys is going to be the nice Tamiya stand set!

[jamesG]

An old testors paint can with a bit of tape a piece of wood with four nails in it or a piece of thin wire run through a head pr tail light hole.

Recently found something to called twister grip at wallyworld. They are wire covered with green foam rubber used to hold coiled extension cord or whatever, haven't tried then yet though.

[Pete J.]

I make these out of foam core poster board and hot glue. The model is held on by blue tack, a kind of sticky putty. I do them pretty much for each model, but they can often be recycled and fit other similar models.

[Jon Cole]

I use a wire coat hanger. It is shown upside down. The tip of the hook is cut off, and spread to form two legs, a vise grip works as the third leg, and a pendulum for swinging the body around to paint all sides. The body is held on with 1" wide tape.

[pepperdrumstix]

I use a bent wire coat hanger as described in other posts attached with duct tape to a large plastic soda bottle filled with water. That "stand" can be rotated, held up, and most importantly set down after the body has been sprayed. That is what is missing from other stands, a way to set them down safely to protect the body so the paint can dry. I use pieces of clean card board with duct tape rolled into a flat piece that I stick small parts too for painting. I use tooth picks stuck in the sides of a card board box to hold engines and parts that have a hole in them to push the tooth pick in. I also use wood clothes pins to hold parts by the cut off sprues and tooth picks with parts on them. Paint stands was a major problem for me until I started using these methods. No more holding a freshly painted body by the bent coat hanger trying to figure a way to set it down and not ruin the paint job. I tried locking pliers and sticking the coat hangers in a card board box and even hanging the thing from a wire across my patio but they all were not successful methods. Hope this helps. Patrick

[fatkidd]

I take 2 paint stirring sticks, a lighter (or round object used for a pivot), a couple of rubber bands, some tape and use this contraption...

The tape is wound around the stir stick so that the adhesive side is facing out.

Just slide the pivot and rubber band to where you need it for proper fitment inside the body.

Between the adhesive of the tape and the friction of the stir sticks, the body is held on.

I use this method everytime that I paint a body and have had no issues with it.

I change the tape as needed. And, when you are done spraying, you can hang the body upside down and reduce the risk of dust settling onto the surface.

here's what it looks like with a body on it.

[Don Sikora II]

I use glass soda or beer bottles with a wad of duct tape on the top. Thinner neck ones work best....I have some Mexican soda bottles (Goya Coconut, I think) that have a nice tapered shape at the top. They're probably at least 5 years old and work great since they have enough weight that they aren't easy to tip over.

[Greg Myers]

[philo426]

[Scuderia]

I use glass soda or beer bottles with a wad of duct tape on the top. Thinner neck ones work best....I have some Mexican soda bottles (Goya Coconut, I think) that have a nice tapered shape at the top. They're probably at least 5 years old and work great since they have enough weight that they aren't easy to tip over.

I'm with him on the beer bottles. Also back in HS me and my buddy took empty coffecans, quickcrete, and leftover broken hockey sticks and made painting posts.

[Guest]

I use this or old paint cans. Built this in 92. Looks like it's time to build another. Just a little paint buildup, lol.

[dustym]

I use glass soda or beer bottles with a wad of duct tape on the top. Thinner neck ones work best....I have some Mexican soda bottles (Goya Coconut, I think) that have a nice tapered shape at the top. They're probably at least 5 years old and work great since they have enough weight that they aren't easy to tip over.

This is what I use also. I have tried the coat hanger also, but just goe back to the bottle.

[Mr. Moparman]

I use a Taymia paint stand for bodies and small parts. I am interested in trying Don Yost's "pipe nipple" stand and see how it does.

[my66s55]

I use the Donn Yost method. Works great.

[slammedi'am]

Coke cans or old spray cans...Just depending on the model

[TooOld]

For as long as I remember I have always used coat hangers . I've recently graduated to something a bit more profesional ,

It's still a coat hanger , just modified a little . And it works much better !

Edited June 17, 2012 by TooOld

[Guest Darkside Customs]

Spray can with tape to hold the body

[crazyjim]

I use almost all of the above except Fatkidd's paint sticks. My most favorite, though, is the Tamiya paint stand. For little parts I tape them down to old medicine pill bottles loaded up inside with lead from my stained glass supply.

[martinfan5]

I use paint cans, it works, but I would like try something different

[ffreak]

I have used almost all of the previously mentioned methods. This one also is a tool I bought years ago, and recently modified to be more useful and adjustable. Just ran a threaded screw through it with 2 wingnuts to adjust tension on different width bodies. And also put velcro strips on the pads which were worn out, and can apply a velcro strip inside the body so it won't slide off.

[Trucker_tim]

When I was. Kid I attempted to tare apart an old record player so I could use the turn table and put my things on them and be able to spin them around.

[SSNJim]

I use this or old paint cans. Built this in 92. Looks like it's time to build another. Just a little paint buildup, lol.

That is almost identical to mine. We must have read the same article.... I finally chipped all the paint build up off mine, so it's down to the wire again. The wood base still has all the paint buildup.