After 8 months in our new home here in Arizona, and multiple delays for various reasons, my hobby display room now has its first set of shelves. Through a new friend here, we were introduced to a friend of theirs who is starting up his own contractor/handyman business after years of working for someone else. He made these maple shelves as stage one of a two stage project for my man cave.
Each section is 4 feet wide, so this wall has a total of 12 feet of display shelving.
Now to start getting my builds out of storage and onto these shelves…
Very impressive. How does someone move all those very delicate models? Please forgive me if you addressed that in a previous post. How do you decide what location the models go on the shelf? The best ones at eye level and not so favorite ones on the bottom?
Well that is super cool. I hope to start the same thing next year when we move. Your room is very nice and super cool. But, you will need way more space. Right?
TJ, Wingy Thingies on the way today. Not sure that I’ll be able to get them all on there in the remaining space.
Brandon, yes, I’m gonna need more shelves. There are still lots more unbuilt kits to get done and displayed.
Thanks WP. I packed them all up starting in summer 2019. The armor builds were easy, just using foam padding in between and sheeting underneath in large low Tupperware bins, and very careful handling of the bins once packed. For the aircraft builds, I used Tojo’s method of polyfil fiber toy and pillow stuffing to suspend the builds within the Tupperware containers.
These are the built kits in their containers plus a few larger kits from the stash in the same area of the room before the shelf unit.
Thanks Paul. Moving is a major PITA. This is my last one, our forever home. I’m leaving this place in a body bag on a gurney.
Thankfully, aside from a few small things that look to have vibrated loose during the drive here, the aircraft unpacked so far have been remarkably intact. Cleaning off the last few stuffing fibers is more tedious!
Glad that worked out for you,only thing I had so much stuffing left over after unpacking.I know someone could have used it but after the moving twice in two years, I just wanted it all gone asap
Greg, I’m sure in time, plenty of good times will be had in there.
Tony, I had two big garbage bags overflowing with stuffing. Fortunately my neighbor sews stuff and she was overjoyed to take the stuff off of my hands.
Jim, I can’t believe that nearly all of my builds fit on this set up. I am so looking forward to getting the room completed.
