Functional Displays

The bookends sounds like a great idea to me. 

Jim  

If you have 1/35th armor models and you have any capacity for woodworking you can build a shelf with 1 X 6 pine that could hold roughly 25-30 models  in one compact space.

I have at least a couple of hundred built models. This shelf  method helps.

You make a square with the pine, then  back it with 1/4" luaun plywood, in my case 4' x 4' and it only protrudes out of the wall by 5-1/2 inches.  You then install pine shelves every 6 inches or so.  

This has worked well for my armor models.  This is Ok for battleship type ships as well.

It would be worth the effort. Two of these could hold 50-60 armor models. And very neatly.

Getting rid of the girlfriend will free up a fair amount of space, and there'll be zero nagging about what you fill your newfound space with!!!

The bookends think is a pretty good idea. I can dig it!

I've done bookends.  Works well.  Have thought about some lamps using models.  I have made half-hull ship models for displaying on walls. I have seen other models done as wall mounted shadow boxes or lower relief sort of hanging.