Miniature Flight Stands and dice trays for air wargames. e.g. Missile Threat, Check Your 6!

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This is a simple flight stand plus sled/tray for dice used to track stats common in miniature air wargames, such as Missile Threat and Check your 6!/Cy6 Jet Age. This is for a 1/600 scale miniatures, and 10mm dice.In these games you usually track speed and altitude for individual aircraft, but dice tend to roll off flat stands. The STL is for a tray that keeps the dice in place and fits over a simple flight stand.You may need to use a small needle file to largen the hole slightly to fit.For the stands themselves, they are simple to make but need extra parts. Each is made from a 30mm diameter x 2mm thick clear acrylic disk. Into this drill a 2mm hole in the centre, and lightly glue a short length of clear acrylic 2mm diameter rod. Then glue a 2mm x 1mm disc magnet to the top.I glue another magnet underneath each aircraft. If you do this - Make absolutely sure the polarities match up with the bases and be consistent!It can be a bit fiddly to glue the magnets onto the end of the acrylic rods, but try and line them up carefully, otherwise the trays won't fit over them.These components are cheaply available online at Ali Express/Amazon, etc. I think they look pretty good, and take a few minutes to make.The missile in the picture is made from a length of white pipe cleaner, trimmed and coloured in with felt-tip pens for the exhaust flames. The steel core of the pipe cleaner sticks to the magnets on the stand without any additional changes.A final tip is that children's "Hama beads" also have 2mm interior diameter, they can also slip over the flight stands to mark things like pilot skill.The Tinkercad project for the dice tray is here and available to be remixed, if you use larger stands or dice: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/9B7WHJ9lDF6-missile-threat-altspd-dice-flight-stand-tray