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Has anyone ever built custom display cabinets for your vehicles?
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05-23-2009, 09:08 PM
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Look in your area for local cabinet makers, some Home Depots will also do cabinet work (my mom's ex got some counters and cabinets made for his store based on a layout/design I did done for him at Home Depot).
Go in and talk to them. They're the experts. Describe what you want and they should work up a design for you.
Now, going to a local cabinet guy will probably be more costly but it'll get done the right way.
The best idea is to do two depths of cabinet. The bottom one, to hold a Terror Drome with no room around it would probably be about 3' deep and about 3' high.
Most cabinets are done in lengths of 3', so keep that in mind. Typical ceilings are 8'. So that would leave 5' of upper cabinet to divide into shelves.
This is where it gets interesting..
How do you want to display them? Do you want to do diorama displays or just have them standing in rows? And if in rows, are the back rows going to be higher then the front?
What I'd do is leave about 1 foot before you do the first shelf in the upper cabinet). I'd make those about 1'-6" deep (18 inches, the Tiger Rat is about 17" deep).
This would give you a flat surface above the Terror Drome cabinet that is about 1'-6" deep and clear for 12" high. Can do dios or just leave it open, but gives you set-up/display/play space.
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