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No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 22:55
by gung-hoeddie
i'm looking for a few ideas for the command centre, it would seem i'm running out of room rather quickly, i can stick some wall shelves up but not many as the bedroom door will get in the way. i'm limited really to just figures nothing more but i would like to get some more vehicles.

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any ideas would be gratefully recieved :-)

Re: No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 23:02
by Chopper
Easy, send your overstock to me ;-)

Re: No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 23:04
by Thundershot
I wish I had the same problem mate!

Just kidding :-D

Have you got space in the middle of the room for them free standing Ikea glass display units?
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10011055

Re: No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 23:09
by Thundershot
What about fixing other extra shelves in between the existing ones that have only figures standing on them?

Re: No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 23:14
by gung-hoeddie
good god thats genius eddie!! it was staring me right in the face i didn't see it, cheers dude.

Re: No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 23:34
by Thundershot
Thanks...I was thinking to myself.. "this may sound a bit stupid" as I was typing it.

As long as you still have enough hight to stand them up O.K. it should work a treat.

I've also seen sort of 1/2 shelving on the past..hard to explain, you have one wide shelve, the next one above that is 1/2 the width, then a wide shelve again above the 1/2 width one..& so on, so you can have taller items on the wide shelves & smaller items on the wide ones.

I don't know if you understand it from my bad description? But I've seen toy soldiers displayed like this before with horse mounted & flag carrying troops displayed on the wide shelves & normal foot soldiers on the 1/2 width ones.

Re: No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 12:36
by The Baron
Or get some deeper shelving. I like 45cm racking myself.

Re: No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 01:41
by Golden Puma
you'll just have to dispatch some of your forces to take over another room

Re: No Room At The Inn!

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 07:02
by Monkfish
Wow, such an amazing collection in a very short time - good on yer, most envious!

This might sound daft or grandma-sucking-eggs obviously flawed, but could you flesh out the corners too?

I mean that where you have two shelves meeting in a 90 degree (or so) corner you 'cut the corner' with a triangular shelf that would stick out between the two, making more room for not just item placement but perhaps scene setting too?

Like:

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shelf 1
-----
|s|..../
|h|.../ <--- edge '/' is the new bit of shelf
|e|../
|l|./
|f|/
|2|