What do folks do with their builds?

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Yeah, but yours a rather good Adrian, I show only some of mine...the rest are hidden in the depths of the mancave.Si

I'm no where near your league or many of the modellers on here ! I only take them to shows because if I didn't I would have them in boxes in the shed packed away!

Adrian

[BarryW]

Most of mine are on display shelves in a spare room. These shelves can hold a dozen 1/32 scale kits easily and I have room for two more..... I have one 1/32 in my lounge while there are a few 1/48s scattered around in my office and home study.

Space is a problem with 1/32 and have room on my shelves for two more then I will have some hard decisions to make....

[stona]

I have about 10 on display in our front room which is rarely used. 2 are displayed in our main living room under license from SWMBO. These are all 1/32. A bunch of 1/72 models I've somehow acquired are on top of a cupboard in my modelling room, and are soon to increase in number (that's your fault Polux ).

The rest, and it's a lot, are stuck up in the loft. I did get rid of about a dozen not so long ago. They went to the great model repository in the sky, also known as the Tyseley recycling centre!

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

I'm getting the problem now, the wife is getting annoyed by me displaying planes everywhere. I can't part with them coz nobody would pay for it I guess. I'll donate some to friend's house in the near future

[tanktrack]

my problem is that all my models tell a story or have a theme and I like to look at them after all the work I put into them, at the moment I have 3 display cases in the spare room and a small case in the downstairs loo , I am trying to push up my build standards and so am taking longer to complete and am saving time I have 4 ships that I don't know when or if I will build and some are BIG , I have 1 Sunderland that I would like to make but again it is a size problem.

[Guest]

I've just bought and proudly constructed a small display cabinet from Ikea ('Detolf' - £40). It now holds my four 1/72 builds, which is the sum total of my output since my return to the hobby last year, but has space for many more, especially if I suspend some from the rather widely spaced shelves. It's now in a guest bedroom, which also doubles as my workshop. I think I'll have room to keep on displaying builds in this way (biggish house, children flown the nest) for quite a while yet. Modelling in 1/72 and being a slow worker certainly helps, though a few large aircraft would make a bit of a dent in the storage space.

My earlier builds were displayed in old kitchen cabinets, for which I bought glass sliding doors. Coincidentally, I kept them in the kitchen. The builds are now in boxes in the loft.

[stona]

Doug, that reminds me that I have an Ikea cabinet with a few builds in and on it on the upstairs landing outside SWMBO's office! I completely forgot about it in my earlier reply

I think it might be the same make as yours. Does it look like this?



It's a good cabinet and good value for money. I've also worked out how to fit more shelves inside and may be doing so soon.

Cheers

Steve

[Neil]

We have 2 of them - unfortunately they are filled with the wife's prized "me to you" collection - the main cabinet has the even more "touch them and you lose your nuts" level prized collection of Lladro figurines. Luckily I have new "man cave" which has bare walls, I see some plain wood shelving from B&Q in the near future. I was quite chuffed at the weekend at adding shelves to the modelling station so plain shelves varnished will be my next update. Loads of room for shelves and I only have 2 completed models (well 1 and 9/10's).

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[Lee W]

That's very nice Neil.

Well here's my contribution, this has swmbos seal of approval (I wouldn't have put the ornamental heart on the doors!), it's in the lounge opposite the front door, the rest of my stuff is in the mancave (now ex dining room)

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Lee

[Neil]

Ah, now what I need to do is get a cabinet like that to replace the glass ones and then I could claim the glass cabinets for models.

Until I make models of the same quality as some of you fine chaps, not a chance they will be going anywhere other than the man cave.

[Lee W]

Ah, now what I need to do is get a cabinet like that to replace the glass ones and then I could claim the glass cabinets for models.Until I make models of the same quality as some of you fine chaps, not a chance they will be going anywhere other than the man cave.

Put your foot down Neil, tell swmbo how it's gonna be from now on...carefully mind you, ya don't want to upset her...not to much anyway ops:

Lee

[Alan 45]

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It won't stay like this there is a chest of draws and wardrobe in there at the moment which will come out , I will have ceiling to floor shelving on two walls racking on one wall and tables under the window so it will house quite a few builds

[peterairfix]

I've put most of mine in a box as i have a lot of nice big builds coming up.

Peter t

[Guest]

Doug, that reminds me that I have an Ikea cabinet with a few builds in and on it on the upstairs landing outside SWMBO's office! I completely forgot about it in my earlier reply I think it might be the same make as yours. Does it look like this?



It's a good cabinet and good value for money. I've also worked out how to fit more shelves inside and may be doing so soon.

Cheers

Steve

That's the one, except yours seem to be about a quarter the size of mine as it only takes 5 kits!