Summary

This Moon or Planet Stand provides an elegant display base for your favorite spaceship model, its gracefully curved arm resembling an orbital path above your desk.

Print in gray or silver PLA for a moon-like appearance, or go with brighter colors for any type of alien homeworld.

Various model attachment methods are provided.

1. The default works well with starship-type models such as http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:472930
2. The circle works well with saucer craft, lunar landers or http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1274036
3. The "tail fin" adapter with two points works best with retro designs such as http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:927513 or http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:406777.

Options 2 and 3 require glue to attach the adapter end-pieces. All are designed to hold a model without gluing it to the stand (or adapter).

Note that you may need to resize the stand (and/or increase its weight by printing with more infill) to accommodate various sizes of models.

All holes, notches and other cuts to the model were made using Microsoft 3D Builder, which yielded better results from Boolean operations than I have previously been able to achieve with TinkerCAD or Netfabb Basic.

Nov 2016: Moon_stand_v2 now includes small and large concave surfaces for supporting spaceships with cylindrical fuselages.