How do you display your models?
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clockworks said:
AJB88 said:
Here's my SEAT Sport collection, I have since added a few more shelves, sorting them into seasons from 2006 on wards. I also have a fair few models since that pic was taken.
If so, how did you fit the extra shelves?
Thanks for the pointer to eBay for extra shelves and brackets. I'll have to check with my local glass supplier, find out how much some glass shelves would cost, as I don't really fancy acrylic ones.
I've had a couple of these cabinets for about 15 years. I bought 4 sets, and used the spare shelves to fit extras in the 2 that I built. I ended up replacing the metal risers with parts made from round white plastic conduit to support all the shelves. Sprayed the plastic silver. A lot of work.
I could do with a couple more cabinets now, so will look into the brackets.
I've had a couple of these cabinets for about 15 years. I bought 4 sets, and used the spare shelves to fit extras in the 2 that I built. I ended up replacing the metal risers with parts made from round white plastic conduit to support all the shelves. Sprayed the plastic silver. A lot of work.
I could do with a couple more cabinets now, so will look into the brackets.
Oh this is the most difficult bit. To not seem completely nuts & unsocially acceptable, I like to keep them tucked away slightly, not so in-your-face.
In my hallway there's a bookshelf, perfect for some 1/18. You need to step back to see them.
In my hallway there's a bookshelf, perfect for some 1/18. You need to step back to see them.
Edited by Pereldh on Friday 12th March 11:42
Display cabinet I made many years ago, one piece glass front that lifts in to cut down on dust.
From the top row;
Aston Martin's and Tony Pond
Graham Hill, F1 championship cars, Le Mans and Indy 500 winners
Le Mans winners decades of my birth
FI Champions decades of my birth (missing 2019 got models haven't put in cabinet)
Last rows, cars I've had (or as close as I can get) missing a few.
Also got these Ikea cabinets, Land Rovers and Lego...
Some great collections!
I have a 130 car 1:43 scale collection that needs homing, theme of my collection is they're all cars I've helped to design
Don't have a big enough wall in the house for displaying and I like being married so plan to incorporate a display case into a wall of my new garage/man cave I'm building
I have a 130 car 1:43 scale collection that needs homing, theme of my collection is they're all cars I've helped to design
Don't have a big enough wall in the house for displaying and I like being married so plan to incorporate a display case into a wall of my new garage/man cave I'm building
Zad said:
For anyone still looking, when I was in my local Lidl (Woodlesford near Leeds) yesterday, they had a stack of their wall mount display cabinets. I imagine most other Lidls will have them. There was nothing in the advertising flyers or on their site.
They come up every now and again at Lidl. They are very heavy and need good support- I have one on a low table to take the weight and only anchored to the wall for stability. Good value though.
At first when I started 35 or so years ago, I put them in a box... most painted in the colors of the cars I've owned, then at some time I stopped collecting, which was good, because those were more 1:56 or close scale and more like those with bigger wheels, not as good as todays 1:43 scale models.
Then I started collecting prize cups in a nice display about 22 years ago.
That 'hobby' ended when my hobby ended, later I bought scale 1/18 cars of some I have owned and some I would like to own...
So that display closet became to small very soon, most prize cups went out and upstairs in a box.
Since a few years I started to collect some wanne have cars and later cars I've owned once in scale 1:43 because 1/18 was to big for so many cars.
So I sold all 1/18 cars and started looking at all my once owned cars in the 1:43 scale, the last 20 years or so they became much better, much more in balance.
My first price cup closet became my show case for other things, yes also cars which I like in 1/43 and or come across when on the hunt for my once owned cars in 1/43...and some ex UN army things from long time ago and some price cups on top, they constantly moved over the years
All my once owned cars I got out, needed a better display with only my cars, because it were at least 122 over all those years.
here a bit better in slices.
Then this year I found a good display case for all my once owned cars and some extra for I guess the rest of my life, since I do not change that more with cars as I did in the 80-ties and 90-ties
Its a aluminium show case with lights and very heavy thick glass, its about 2 meters high but not deep, so all cars are nearby and not behind others.
Its not cheap such display... but then, so are that many cars which some were very hard to find and or exclusive and or expensive... but its a joy and that way I can remember better which cars there were lol, getting old.
Those are the ones one the left side, difficult to picture, also the glass is very mirroring in the camera, not for my eyes, but via the camera it is, so not that easy to picture as what your eyes normally see's
I have now all my once owned cars, but from those, 7 are not in the right scale, say the 5 Ford Escort RS2000 now 1/56 (but those 1/43 are on order once they come out again, I guess next year new serie) and the 2 Suzuki Swift cars, those are 1/67 or so.
then 13 not yet in the right color... see those yet 3 to go Nissan Sunny (Pulsar) GTI-R in rally, I need 3 in grey... they are out there, mostly in Japan, but not many were made.
the other 10, some need simple color change, which some I do myself, but I rather had some in the right specs/color, but when its close its ok as well.
And ow... 3 cars I could not find over all those years, not sure if those were ever made in 1/43 some I found in 1/32 but to big.
so those 3 cars I used a double ganger for now hah, one is a Nissan Micra pretending to be a Daihatsu Cuore, painted in that color and looks like it, the other is a certain Ford Orion pretending to be a Rover 216se... which comes close, I guess both were not made in that scale 1/43 or rarely come on the market as second hand.
The third one is a Skoda Citigo in the right color, with some made up striping, which now acts like a Hyundai Getz 1.4is and when you look at it in the showcase, looks like it for now
Anyways, it was about the showcase display :-)
Then I started collecting prize cups in a nice display about 22 years ago.
That 'hobby' ended when my hobby ended, later I bought scale 1/18 cars of some I have owned and some I would like to own...
So that display closet became to small very soon, most prize cups went out and upstairs in a box.
Since a few years I started to collect some wanne have cars and later cars I've owned once in scale 1:43 because 1/18 was to big for so many cars.
So I sold all 1/18 cars and started looking at all my once owned cars in the 1:43 scale, the last 20 years or so they became much better, much more in balance.
My first price cup closet became my show case for other things, yes also cars which I like in 1/43 and or come across when on the hunt for my once owned cars in 1/43...and some ex UN army things from long time ago and some price cups on top, they constantly moved over the years
All my once owned cars I got out, needed a better display with only my cars, because it were at least 122 over all those years.
here a bit better in slices.
Then this year I found a good display case for all my once owned cars and some extra for I guess the rest of my life, since I do not change that more with cars as I did in the 80-ties and 90-ties
Its a aluminium show case with lights and very heavy thick glass, its about 2 meters high but not deep, so all cars are nearby and not behind others.
Its not cheap such display... but then, so are that many cars which some were very hard to find and or exclusive and or expensive... but its a joy and that way I can remember better which cars there were lol, getting old.
Those are the ones one the left side, difficult to picture, also the glass is very mirroring in the camera, not for my eyes, but via the camera it is, so not that easy to picture as what your eyes normally see's
I have now all my once owned cars, but from those, 7 are not in the right scale, say the 5 Ford Escort RS2000 now 1/56 (but those 1/43 are on order once they come out again, I guess next year new serie) and the 2 Suzuki Swift cars, those are 1/67 or so.
then 13 not yet in the right color... see those yet 3 to go Nissan Sunny (Pulsar) GTI-R in rally, I need 3 in grey... they are out there, mostly in Japan, but not many were made.
the other 10, some need simple color change, which some I do myself, but I rather had some in the right specs/color, but when its close its ok as well.
And ow... 3 cars I could not find over all those years, not sure if those were ever made in 1/43 some I found in 1/32 but to big.
so those 3 cars I used a double ganger for now hah, one is a Nissan Micra pretending to be a Daihatsu Cuore, painted in that color and looks like it, the other is a certain Ford Orion pretending to be a Rover 216se... which comes close, I guess both were not made in that scale 1/43 or rarely come on the market as second hand.
The third one is a Skoda Citigo in the right color, with some made up striping, which now acts like a Hyundai Getz 1.4is and when you look at it in the showcase, looks like it for now
Anyways, it was about the showcase display :-)
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