Display Cases From Ikea

paintsniffer wrote:

lewbud wrote: I'm making plans for a Billy bookcase with glass shelves and glass doors for my display case. I use Billy bookcases for my display. If you are going to try to get anything bigger than a 1/48 F-16 on them you will not be able to get the door closed. They should work fine for ships though.

I build 1/700, 1/72 and cars primarily.  I do do the occasional ground target and 1/48 though.  Biggest plane I'll build will be the 1/48 F-15E.  Not a bomber guy.

lewbud wrote:

I'm making plans for a Billy bookcase with glass shelves and glass doors for my display case.

I use Billy bookcases for my display. If you are going to try to get anything bigger than a 1/48 F-16 on them you will not be able to get the door closed.

They should work fine for ships though.

wjbwjb29: I took a number of pics of the Detolf to show detail. I think the pic you are referring to, is the one I took to let everyone know how many 1/35 tanks can fit per shelf.

JMart: I'm from CT too; Manchester to be exact.

lewbud wrote:

I'm making plans for a Billy bookcase with glass shelves and glass doors for my display case.

YES< thats the one I posted about (Ikea bookcase). Works great and you can adjust the height of the shelves accordingly. You can even cram in an extra shelf if you dont have "tall" builds.

why didnt you take a whole picture of the case instead of half of it.

Bill

Warship Guy:

I'm not sure if they have anything to display a 1/200 scale ship individually. I don't think they have a case that small. They do have a lot of different wall ounted cabinets with glass doors and shelves; maybe they could work for you.

Nathan

The Billy series looks like it would be another great choice for display. I may get one the next time.

Nathan

Hi Guys,

Sorry for the delay in responding, but I've been offline for a while. 

I'm enclosing a few more pics to illustrate how I dust-proofed my cabinets, and also to show how many kits you can display in them. 

Basically, I ran self adhesive weather-stripping around all 4 surfaces behind the glass door:

This shot is looking up at the inside of the cabinet:

As I said before, it doesn't totally eliminate the dust, but it cuts down on it tremendously!

These next two shots show how many kits the shelves will hold. The actual dimensions of the shelf are 11" x 15", with a bit more room on all sides. These planes are al 1/48 scale:

And these tanks are all 1/35 scale:

I hope this answers some of your questions, and I'm glad I could pass this tip along. I am sold on Ikea for inexpensive (relatively) glass display cases. Thanks for the interest!

Nathan

Thanks for the heads up... we are big Ikea fans : )

Was also wondering about the dust... was thinking of getting another tall bookcase (forgot the exact name, Billy I think?), but get the "glass windows" option.

Nachtflieger wrote:

As for dust control, I put weather stripping inside the glass next to the openings around the door.(All four edges) It doesn't totally eliminate the dust, but it lessens it quite a bit!

Any chance of a pic of the dust-proofing?

A mate has this & I have some similar cabs

Here's IKEA Canada's page (the price is in $ CAD) on the detolf cabinet, with outer dimensions:

http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/10011055 

And this query results page leads to all three variants:

http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/search/?query=detolf 

Do they have anything that would serve to display individual 1/200 scale sailing ships?

Bill Morrison

what scale are those models esp the a-c

what are the dim of the shelves them selves

I recently got 4 of the Detolf cabinets and since we don't have an Ikea I paid a premium for shipping. Even though the shipping doubled the price there is nothing out there even close to the price. I like the idea of adding extra shelves.

Oh Nathan, you're wife says the alternative is that YOU can do more housework...

Nathan,

many thanks for the tips....I suppose an alternative is to get the missus to do more housework!!

I imagine the other advice of periodic dusting would help to.

           cheers all

while looking over the cases in the stores themselves there are many tagged as "dust free" cabinets. seems like something maybe relatively only in the past couple of years or so. i have one of the cases similar to those posted above and alot of dust gets into them over time. if you take things out and dust/clean them often it may not be a problem, but if you leave your models in the cases for long periods of time without doing so, the dust can still be heavy and potentially a problem.

Dave

Hi Hank,

I'm not too sure how a soldered joint would hold up, but I would suggest cleaning the paint from where you plan to solder totally before proceeding. I would think it would do fine.

As for dust control, I put weather stripping inside the glass next to the openings around the door.(All four edges) It doesn't totally eliminate the dust, but it lessens it quite a bit!

Hope this helps.

Nathan

Hi,

Thanks for the interest. To answer your question, Ikea doesn't sell spare pegs for the Detolf; it's not set up that way. Inside the glass walls, the shelves are supported by a frame that resembles a ladder. It comes with 4 shelves, so what I did was welded 1/4" round bar in between what was already there. Then I cut plexiglass into the shapes of the shelves, and lastly, I painted the ladder framework overall silver to blend in my welds.

I'm enclosing a close up which shows the frame pretty well. Hope this helps answer your question.

Nathan

Those are a good idea! I have an older, pine-framed IKEA display case that I have yet to assemble.

I, too, intend to add some extra glass shelves - how did you support the ones that you added? Were you able to buy spare pins or supports from IKEA?