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After cleaning lots of dust of a lot of models before moving house I'm looking for some display cases but wow are they expensive. £136 for my largest model. Then £100 each for the rest. I thought about making my own out of plywood and getting a made to measure perspex front but just dont think it would look very good. The space I have is a shelf in a wooden cabin about 400cm wide, 60cm deep and height ranging from 30cm to 60cm.
Has anyone made their own or bought something different?
Google display cabinets but leave the lego bit out, that might be skewing the price. Though finding something 4m long might be a problem.
Individual perspex display cases seem to be under 20 quid.
Doesnt need to be one 4m case. Happy to just put multiple together thouh the £20 ones are about the size of my phone. I thought one site was good till I realised their measurements were in mm and not cm.
Guide on how to build something similar here - okay it's a fishtank but similar principles apply
https://plasticsheetsshop.co.uk/diy/acrylic-aquarium/
Loads more guides for stuff in the blog.
used a couple of cheap 2nd hand perspex fish tanks off ebay to display some of my daughter’s lego, but you will struggle to get the size you actually need
So your prepared to spend £100’s on the Lego , but not invest in a cabinet ?
I gave up on lego a long time ago, so expensive for what it is
I thought the default was IKEA Billy bookcase with glass doors?
What do you fill the lego shaped void in your life with instead?
I buy used lego on ebay, bricklink etc and then resell so its not an expensive hobby.
I thought the default was IKEA Billy bookcase with glass doors?
We did this for my wife's collection of pottery stuff. Worked pretty well albeit the dust always gets in.
I did the Billy bookcases thing but doubled them up to make shelves double the depth. Got them free including the glass doors so wasn't too worried if I butchered them.