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Happy Seasonal Holidays All,

I recalled a thread that GR showed his Bronzart B-26 without a stand. I don't know what an actual stand might look like but one of my clients offered me a few vintage stamped steel/metal stands that I feel will fit "the bill". The previous use is unknown but I suspect similar ones were used by factory model builders and they simply modified the stand to their needs. I plan to do same and adapt these to fit. It will feature a threaded stub to screw into the existing threaded hole/nut in the belly of the model. The modification will be easy but its down my list of current projects that I have in progess. The plan is to paint the base in a gloss black or something close to the Bronzart "bronze" color. I can get various diameters around 4" through 6" and lots of mass can be added if needed. Contact me if you are in need of one and I will see what I can do.

Regards, Tom Sanders

I have an original 1936 cast iron Pan Am travel agency model of a Sikorsky S-42 flying boat that used a stand like that one. There is swivel attachment at the top

I believe this to be an image of a Bronzart B-26 showing it's original stand.

That is the same heavy black stand base that I have with another Bronzart model, a P-47. There may be a sticker underneath on the felt with the Bonzart name and address. Mine has one.

here are 2 Bronzarts with the original stands

Here is a Bornzeart P-47 with original metal landing gear I just got. (missing a propeller blade though...)

Always amazed to see new versions after I thought I had seen them all. I didn't think Bronzart did landing gears.
Your P-47 with landing gear is superb, nice original stand, too
Haven't seen repro props for Bronzarts, there just are not that many original models still around, I guess.

Classic Tin Toy does offer a very nice prop that matches the one on my Bronzart P-47N. If all of the versions of the P-47 are in the same scale, it should fit them as well.

Here is the link...

http://store.classictintoy.com/mm5/merc ... y_Code=A2P

Heinz calls it, "4 bladed prop for display model"

item # L10160715

Regards, Tom

Thanks for info.
My P-47 has a wingpan of 8 1/8", is yours the same scale?

Terry.

Terry,
The wingspan on my P-47N is a smidge over 8'' so scale will be the same. I have attached 3 pics...
1) The Bronzart P-47N, the person whom I purchased this model from did her best to pack it to ship. Not ever having one of these, did I know that the orinal prop is 100% lead and will bend when you breathe on it. Needless to say, when the airplane arrived the prop was damaged. I carefully straightened it but, as a fall-back, I shopped to replace it, hence the unit from CTT.
2) A comparison of original propeller and new CTT copy- they are dead-on
3) Span of prop

hope these help,
Tom Sanders