I discovered this while I was working on my two winged battleships. They both came with old school display bases, and a hole in the hull, but I needed a clear "flight" stand. So what I did was dead simple. I went out and got one of those acrylic wands you use to turn venetian blinds to tilt them one way or the other. It's about 3 feet long, it cost me 2 bucks US, and it'll yield probably 10 stands by the time I'm done.
Here's a close up of it going into one of my ships:
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Just the wand to turn a blind. Dead simple, dead cheap. :ph34r: