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What do you guys use to hold up your miniatures or what do you attach your miniatures to while spray priming or airbrushing them? I know some have wooden planks, or a tray, or for the airbrushers, a large cork or even just holding the figure in their hand or laying it on the table.

For me, I tack the figures on to a small cardboard box that I received some bits in. It was good for the first few dozen models, but now it is almost worthless. The box has built up a lot of paint on all sides, and every time I handle it, primer flakes off and either gets on the model which isn't a problem if it's not primed yet, but sometimes it falls on primed models that are still wet. The flakes also got into the tack which makes that particular clump less sticky, and I don't want to waste all my Blu-Tack on priming.

What do you guys use, and how do you avoid this problem besides replacing your priming tools every once in a while?

Sometimes blue tack to a wooden block.
More often cocktail sticks as handles which I stick into white open-cell expanded polystyrene as a stand.

I bought old style pin line dry clothing clips and placed tacky on the tips. I then upturned a box and i can hold as many figures as i want at one time. total cost 5$ and i still have 30 or so pins in the bag.

But for models i am constantly working on i go visit my mother's house and steal all of her wine corks. As they are bigger and easier to handle.

Plastic shot glasses with white blu-tack (the blue stuff apparently leaves an oily residue) works well for me.

For delicate components that I don't want to force onto blu-tack I use a sheet of paper with upside down masking tape stuck to it. Most of the time this is enough to hold the pieces in place but without enough surface area in contact they can occasionally come unstuck and be blown away.