Review of Tamiya Spray-Work Painting Stand

With Christmas a few weeks ago, I got a Hobby Lobby Gift Card and with that, I purchased a really neat item which will go a long way towards helping with many of my art and craft projects.

The work stand was $24.99 MSRP, but with one of the 40% off coupons, I got mine for about $15.  I've seen others go for around $20 at hobby stores, and Amazon currently has it for around $21.

Amazon Link - Tamiya Spray Work Painting Stand

Overview of the Tamiya Spray-Work Painting Stand

The kit comes with 2 different stands in it, one with spring clips, and another which has a platform and a bunch of varying hole sizes.  The kit also comes with 4 clips.

Each stand has an internal lazy susan which allows you to rotate the stand around.  The stand with the spring clips will have to be modified when you first unbox it, but I show how to do that in the video below.  This stand is used for holding larger models, something like a car body you want to airbrush.

The stand with all of the holes is useful for inserting sprues, painting multiple items at once, using the clips to hold items, or to just rotate if you are looking to take pictures of an object from various views.  I plan to also use these stands to take pictures of items when completed.

I have used this multiple times now in the week I have had it, and for around $20 or less, I'm sort of disappointed I had never purchased one of these years ago.

Video Review of Tamiya Spray-Work Painting Stand

I did a video review of the product on YouTube, See the unboxing video below. 

In this video, I show how to adjust the spring clips, as well as show some examples of how to use each of the stands.

This Tamiya product is well worth the $20 or so dollars you will spend, and I highly recommend it to anyone who's tired of painting your fingers, or having to rotate objects in your hand to paint them.  It really is a very handy set to have.

- Rob