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  • Member since
    January 2007
Posted by the doog on Friday, November 4, 2011 2:24 PM

Get some bookcases and buy some extra lumber at Lowe's or wherever, and cut extra shelves to put in them. I have bookcases with like, 13 shelves in them on which I line up my tanks or cars one by one.

You've got to get over the impulse at some point that you want to "show them off" and provide some actual space to see around them, etc. You're at the point now where it becomes a matter of storage. If you still need to show them off in some creative way, but one case and rotate out old builds in favor of the new.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Thursday, November 3, 2011 9:17 AM

I hear you. I have the same problem. I bought two large book cases at a local department/discount store- floor to ceiling type, five shelf models. I added plexiglas fronts.  They promptly filled up.

One trouble is that I like large scale.  Love to add the detail, and my mid-seventies eyes and start of tremblings in my fingers gave me the excuse that I needed to build in large scale. I have changed my mind.

I have bought cheap reading glasses to solve the vision problem, and adopted the philosophy of "use it or lose it."  I figure I need the challenge of smaller scale. I look in the cabinet and see how many 1:72 planes will fit in the area of one 1:32 model, and how many 1:24 cars will fit in the area the one 1:8 scale car is taking up!

Maybe by actually working on the smaller scale stuff I will acquire the skills and practice needed.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Thursday, November 3, 2011 7:01 AM

I suggest display cases,many pick up curio cabinets,IKEA has been suggested,make your own,I have some from www.gemodisplays Of course if you don't have room for a lot of cabinets,I would suggest rotating your your dispay models,and storing the others away.

  • Member since
    October 2008
  • From: SE Pennsylvania
Posted by padakr on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:25 PM

Tough question to answer.  What kinds and scale?  I've been picking up these wine bottle display cases at Michaels on sale.  Really basic acrylic boxes.  I can fit a couple of 1/35 armor or 1/48 planes, or several 1/72 models.  Then stack them on a shelf.  I'd post a picture, but they are mostly empty right now as I have most of my models packed to take to work next week for our Veteran's Day display.

Paul

  • Member since
    April 2011
Running out of storage space!
Posted by Fatalgrace on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:12 PM

Im running out of space to put my completed projects. Any unique ideas? Hanging them and trashing them are out of the question. Dish.

 

thanks

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