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11-19-2010, 08:30 AM | #31 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Mar 2009
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white pegboard!!! gives the options for shelving or pegs, the white background provides for best lighting, and it's one of the overall most affordable toy cave make-overs. And don't forget to locate wall studs for the furring strips! hope this helps and congrats!
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11-19-2010, 08:34 AM | #32 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Choudrant, La
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I'm in the same boat. My stuff has been packed up and in storage since 2002. I am going to do shelves for my joes like I did for my wife's book collection. The only draw back is that I spent $130 turning her closet into a bookcase. However, it does have one more shelf than any other bookcase I've been able to find and it is fully adjustable so we can add more if needed, unlike the 5 shelf cases I have in my little library.
Before I get that far, I think I will paint the room and I most certainly will yank the carpet and put in wood flooring. In the meantime, my library is not finished yet, so that comes first for now. Eventually, I plan to drop $5K at home depot for one of their largest sheds--the one that looks like a barn. The joes will then go in there. here are pix of the joe stack (there is more), and the closet bookshelf. |
11-19-2010, 08:38 AM | #33 |
Back where it all begins
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Gas-house
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my thoughts exactly...I'm designing mine now as well. My brother moved out when he got married and now I have an extra bedroom....I was planning on having four foot shelves waist high and tapering them up with one and half foot intervals all the way to the cieling ...I'm also designing big steel racks to hold them so there's no supports in the front (similar to the standard ones you see all the time, but bigger)...I can send my cad file once I'm finished so you can them laser cut at your local steel fabrication shop. Once I get everything done, I can give you a ballpark on a price
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11-19-2010, 08:42 AM | #34 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Illinois (northwest suburbs of Chicago)
Posts: 792
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Aircraft from the ceiling via fish line, have them flying towards the door in two lines, one on either side of the room (assuming the ceiling is equal height on all sides and not a dormer).
Door wall should have framed peg boards on either side to put up the MOC figs, tastefully. Account for the door swinging, and use holders so the cards don't end up on the pegs. Walls: Dioramas, baby! I'm thinking 2 of them (one per wall) with a few 'breaking the fourth wall' moments thrown in. Make one Joes attacking Cobra base and the other Cobra attacking Joe base. This gives all vehicles some place to be divided in which doesn't crowd the scene. This last part is key with the figures too, give everyone their elbow room, you don't want to look like a comic or used toy store by filling all the nooks and crannies to the brim. Keep it to telling a story and telling it well. Save the wall directly opposite the door for posters or more two dimensional looking things, if it's a little more stark then the visitor won't feel as claustrophobic. Lastly, a box of extras, less than perfects, and disposables should be kept on hand (figures and vehicles). Future visitors will have kids who can't resist. After you prime their imaginations and make their mouthes water you have something they can play with which won't require 3 hours of clean up, set up afterwards. |
11-19-2010, 01:27 PM | #35 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: CA
Posts: 172
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An issue that has not been covered is lighting. Do not use fluoresent again do not use the evil color sucking fluoresent lighting of any kind instead invest in led lighting while a little on the pricer side it will not harm your collection. They do not emit any u.v. Light and they generate very little heat. They are not just the little pucks any longer. And they are very cheap to operate. Much cheaper than evil cfl's. Look around home depot, menards and, lowes is carrying some decent product. Any q's pm me that is all.
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11-19-2010, 01:32 PM | #36 |
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a water slide would be cool
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