Flight Stand with Hex Base that is the same size as a popular giant stomping mech game.

It's a remix of my earlier hex base: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4597503

The flight stand is in three parts; a hex base, a small connector and the flight pole (in three sizes). I print the flight pole and small connector together with the pole laying flat.

To use this, you'll need to take your model and "cut" a hole in it using the flight pole in something like Tinkercad or Blender before you print it. Alternatively you can try drilling a 4mm hole in the base of the model, but please if you use power tools then use a vice to hold the model.

Please read this before printing the hex base:

There's a trick to printing the hex component quickly (in Cura at least) with the following steps:

1. Flip the model upside down.
2. Set "Shell" / "Top Layers" to 0. This is very important.
3. Set "Shell" / "Bottom Layers" so a value so that the final thickness will be around 0.8mm - my layer height is 0.08 and I set this value to 10 so that the total thickness is 0.8mm.
4. Set "Infill" / "Infill Density" to 0.
5. For a 0.4mm nozzle, set the "Shell" / "Wall Line Count" to around 3, maybe 4. Use more with smaller nozzles. I use a 0.25mm nozzle and my wall line count is set to 5 which may be a bit thin.
6. Disabled "Shell" / "Enable Ironing" if you have it on.

The attached photo includes an image of one of the bases flipped upside down.

I'd advice creating a new profile and saving it so you don't mess up your existing one.

This should give you a hollow hex base with no bottom on it that looks a lot like the "real thing". You can print them quick and they don't use too much filament. Don't make them too thin or they'll potentially warp.

I assume other slices have equivalent steps.

Edit (19/2/2021): Updated the pegs to remove issues.