This is not meant to be a show-n-tell of my hobby room, but a near term dilemma: how to display my models when completed? While I have many shelves, about half of them are filled with my stash. Yes, I could temporarily move them to a hidden closet somewhere, but I’m likely to forget about them. That HAS happened in the past!
So I was over at a friend’s house lately and he was describing his philosophy on display: 1/72 goes on a stick, 1/48 on its wheels. But he does not mix scales on the same shelf or even the same cabinet. So as he approaches the same challenge of “where to display and how” his solution is to shift to a “1/72 on its wheels and 1/48 on sticks” approach. His idea is that he can fill in above the 1/48 scale subjects, and fill in below the 1/72 scale. What a brilliant idea!
I’ve purchased some acrylic rod in 1/8 and 1/4 inch diameters — this stuff comes in 6 foot lengths! I also have some display stands I’ve picked up over the years just to have on hand for some projects I had not thought of yet. I now need to start planning for some “in flight” displays. As my Airfix Firefly V shows, one option is to ignore the cockpit and just paint the interior, the other is on my Airfix Spitfire VI, where I found a pilot and gave him a proper uniform.
The likely path forward is a mix of both, obviously, and I think I’ll focus on cockpits only in the more modern kits that actually have a cockpit…presuming I have a suitable set of aviators to sit in the seats. Since my collection of kits is made up of about 50/50 old/new kits, that’s not going to be that hard. I also have a bag of aircrew in various sizes laying around somewhere…
Thanks for looking…
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