My Display Case 10/10/2003
Size: 64cm(W) x 33cm(D) x 172cm(H)
03/04/2004 - Filling up a bit now ...
09/05/2004
...so I've bought another one
28/11/2004
Due to the recent completion of a number of large models I have recently finished, I have had to buy bigger display cases. These are from the IVAR range from IKEA. (Still not big enough for the B52 though)
16/08/2005
Due to lot of emails I have recieved recently, I have taken some more photos today to show how my display cases are filling up.
The Tomcats case
Case #2 from the top
Case #3 the Ikea cabinets
15 Mar 2006
Some pictures of the cases today - filling up quite nicely
07 Apr 2007
I now have my third silver display case so I have some more room for my kits to be built.
I have split the Ikea Cabinets and moved them to the landing ...
and here are the other two silver cabinets, now full. You can see the new silver cabinet in the reflections.
08 Aug 2007
I decided to try and utilise the cabinets space a bit more by adding some more shelves. After searching around on the web, I found this company theplasticshop.co.uk which have a "cut to size" section, and ordered 8 perspex sheets - 613x248x5mm. Two days later they arrived. I then partly dissambled one cabinet and redrilled the shelf support locating holes, for the 8 existing glass shelves, and then the same again on a second cabinet for the new perspex shelves.
Here are the results - perspex on the left, glass on the right. Lots more space (about another year or two of building). Extra shelf support from B&Q hardware.
A few builds and a few house moves have passed, and here is a the latest photo of the display cabinets. Due to space, there is no room to setup the Ikea cabinets, so I have just set up my Argos cabinets in my bedroom.
As I mentioned in my last update in 2007, I had rearranged the shelves of my oldest two cabinets. In 2009, the cabinet with the acrylic shelves (left hand side), had the shelving collapse, which crushed a few models. I found the problem had been the supports, I had initially bought, were not large enough and had slipped from their holes, from the weight. I rebuilt them using larger and more secures supports, and have had no further mishaps.
Initial shelf supports used |
Newer shelf supports used |
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