hey guys
i am looking for some displaying ideas on where to put all my model planes that i have made because they are all just in my room on my display cabinet thingy… and if you display your models could you please post some pics of where you display them … eg cabinets, tables and what not 
thanks
That`s the best place for them…in your “cabinet thingy”…assuming it has a door on it so you can keep dust out. The other ways are shelves , the ceiling and some people hang them on the wall vertically, like a picture, with wire or fishing line tied to the tail wheel up to a picture hook in the wall. I even just read that someone is trying to do the same but horizontally…sounds like it would be very difficult to do but want to see it if they succeed.
My kit`s are on shelves and hung from the ceiling. I am quickly running out of display space and will probably have to build a cabinet in the near future. I will try to send you a pic of my “war room” when I get a chance to take a couple.
Take care Matty,
Len
Thanks to digital photography, I can keep my models a lot longer and in zero space… Ordinarily, I tear them down (and strip them of useful parts and trash the hulks) after anywhere from a few months to a couple years, with a few exceptions, like dioramas that I’m particularly proud of, or kits that are no longer in production and with little chance of them being re-released (or only available unbuilt for ridicously high collector prices)…
After a while, I get sick of looking at 'em, the cats inevitably get up there and bite parts off or knock 'em off, and if I’d kept every kit I’ve built, I’d have needed a museum-size display area, lol… Heck, I reckon I’ve built about 1800 models altogether… And if I got another 20 good years, I got another 500-600 to go…[;)] Got over a hundred on-hand right now (not counting figure sets, and thanks to some really good-hearted folks here who helped me out after my place got robbed last year), lol…
So, I never have more than maybe 30-40 or so on the display shelves… But yeah, they’re just open shelves, mounted to the walls… I don’ like cabinets, since they have a big “foot-print”… They also limit the models to smaller wingspans, whereas shelves only need three points-of-contact for the gear… Wings and noses can handle over-hang…
Shelving, I can put that up anywhere, like over the couch & love seat, desk, whatever… A 10’ x 12" x 1/2" pine board, three shelf-mounts, 18 screws, 9 anchors, and I’m good to go for another 6-10 dioramas, depending on the base-size… i could display more models, but I only do dioramas, so I take up more room than most…
In the War Room, I have a 32-inch wide hollow door that I turned into a shelf/table… I use it for large dioramas, like the Monogram B-29/B-17/B-24 dios… It’ mounted to the wall, and has two legs in front to support the front… I use the area under it to store unbiult kits.
I picked up a cabinet at an auction a few years ago. Because I build 1/72 scale and I am not a prolific builder it should take me several years to fill it up.
i need to get a display area like that mine find a home werever theres room lost a few to the cat but cats will be cats.
Ron
Well, I posted this pic in the “hanging aircraft” thread, but it’s the only one I have that shows my cabinet. I’m just really anal about dust on my models. I’m a slooooow builder, and I just can’t abide that dust settling on something in which I’ve got so much time. Periodically I take them out and dust off(or wash off) what inevitably gets between the sliding doors and clean the glass shelves too. Which reminds me, it’s about time to do that again.
And, as mentioned earlier, my display is full. That fact has kept me from building a plane for several years because I don’t have space for one. I’m either duplicating this cabinet in sheet-metal (I was a tinsmith/sheet-metal mechanic for 13 years) or I’m having the same cabinet builder make another one. I have so many nice un-built kits, and time is marching, no make that “flying” on, and I want to see them built too.
Heh…theres another saying..." Theres more than one way to skin ( a model destroying) cat"!
i cant afford a cabinet so i built these
if theyr in flight il make 1 of these for them
hey Eathis,nice shelves,but the dust on your completed builds must drive you CRAZY !!
I have a mix of all of the above…except in glass.
I established dominance early on in the home, and finished off the basement…for ME!!! (the rest of the house too!!! except the kitchen of course!!!)
[8o|] My oldest tom used up 8 of his 9 lives when he destroyed THIS diorama and the B-17 before I could even finish it and get it photographed… 
At least the truck survived, but only because it landed on a balled-up sweatshirt… Good thing too… I HAD to have that over-priced Tamiya Duece to make the diorama “work” the way I needed it to… It cost almost half again as much as the B-17 kit, and I didn’t budget a replacement for it… But that’s another thread…
ANYway…
The diorama sat between sessions on the top shelf, and the shelf itself is 16 inches wide. Unfortunately, the dio-base was 24 inches wide, and there was overhang… He tried to leap up onto it from the floor, grabbing the front edge, and he CATapaulted the B-17 into the air, which resulted in the SECOND crash this bird was involved in… Unfortunately, it didn’t survive, since a hardwood floor and 5-foot drop were more than it could take… THEN, to top it off, like it was cursed, the base itself then fell on it… [8o|]
At least all the scratch-built detail-parts inside, like the seats / harnesses, map-table (I’d scratched one from basswood) ammo-chutes, toilet, radios and such survived, as well as some of the modified external parts, like the engines with their ignition harnesses, “flak damaged” cowls, & horizontal stabs. They’ll be going into the replacement Fortress I have on-hand… And the cat’s no longer around, either… (I didn’t give him the .22 flu or anything else either, so you cat-people can relax… Somebody stole him… )
This time, the base goes into the closet when I’m not working on it, and will be on the “door-shelf” I built when done…
Dunno about him, but dusting models isn’t all that big a chore… I go through on mine about once every couple of months with a wide make-up brush, and maybe a “poof” from the airbrush in the nooks & crannies and it takes all of 5 minutes… I use the airbrush and a can of propellant because a compressed-air can is too much pressure if you got a part or two that’s loose… The airbrush will only move it… The compressed-air will shoot it into space, lol…
Only have to do an occasional touch-up the pastels…
Tis why “four on the floor”[:P] is the policy in my house. Cats can’t learn to stay on the floor where they belong! The only good cat is…[:XX]
i try not to look
must not look
MUST NOT LOOOOOOOK
damn it now iv got to go and look lol
Yeah, “Four on the Floor” is a pipe-dream with cats… They do like altitude… But the three remaining felines I have are pretty good about staying down, although one loves to lay on top of my monitor while I’m on the War Room computer… She’s a pretty good co-pilot when I’m flying CFS2 also…
HA! That picture reminds me of another TV show …Home Improvement…Tim the “Tool Man” Taylors neighbor, Wilson...never saw his face...eyes and a hat looking over the fence…wearing a Zulu mask…kinda like you…back of the head…the avatar with the cammo paint…just struck me funny…like the Mr. Myagi crack I made…sorry…they don`t let me out much…[8ball][proplr][aln]
I don’t know Hans,it was always something I dreaded.I always would knock something off.So now they are all behind glass,and all I have to do is clean the shelves every few months.
Hello Fermis,What is that giant F-22 Raptor hanging on the wall ? What kit is that ??
house built around models. i love it!
Hmm… haven’t thought about that yet… since I’ve only completed two so far. [:$] One thing I can guarantee is that the Mrs. will not be hip on the house turnning into a aircraft hanger… at least the upstairs.
It’s Testors 1/32. Got it cheap ($5) and built it simple! Not much detail and halfass fit!