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Truly impressive looking build. It's really coming together now. Carl

Great looking cockpit. We are such children at times. My wife's just happy I have friends to play with.

Hmmm, I've got the Trumpeter 103C kit in the stash...

These arrived from Hubert yesterday: Thanks Hubert for filling a couple holes in my stash.

Nicely done Martin! Fast too. You should add a Jagdpanther to the mix so you'll have S,M and L, like the three Bears.

There's an idea. The Stratos is one of my favourite cars.

Thanks Graham! That's still one thing I haven't tried. One day...

Thanks Rob! I was really happy with the ay it turned out. Honestly, I had forgotten to apply them at the time and decided not to mess with it. Maybe on my next one I'll remember to use them.

Thanks Rob! It was the one flown by Eric "Winkle" Brown after the war. Most of the pics were swallowed by the great Photobucket debacle but I have a couple.

I just checked and an Arado 234 doesn't quite fit either unfortunately.

Ernie, if you mean the wood one, it's two Ikea Detolf shelves on a custom base and top. I used a router to cut the groves for the glass and used 3/4" thick pine. Here's the WIP:

Nice looking tank there Gus. Tracks are either a Zen like experience or the task from Hell depending on how they go together. Carl

There's a different style of doors I found called Glassvik. They have a heavier frame to them but would fit. https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/glassvik-glass-door-white-clear-glass-50291662/ For my Detolf, the stock doors they come with fit. I just hadn't installed them until last night.

Good question. She'll probably say something about boys and their toys, shake her head and go back to whatever she was doing. She's gotten used to it now.

A Bf 110 won't fit unfortunately. I tried my Dragon one in it and the wingspan is just slightly too big. I haven't tried my Mosquito but that fits in my Bësta so I'm ok there. That's where I've stuck the Bf 110. It's a lot better than on top of a model box in the stash. Here's the Bësta with a couple F-4s and the Mossie in it. Here's the Bf 110 on its shelf. If they still made those doors, I'd have bought more and stuck with these. I'd swap out the lower doors for the glass ones.

We could make it a true group build. Everyone picks a car/ locomotive....

A T-33 with tip tanks just fits but it pretty much takes up one half so I've put it in my original single Detolf. For the grooves, I used a 3/16" bit to match the thickness of the glass. Just in case anyone wanted to know the size.

Well, I've got 5 more (2 Tamiya, 3 PCM) in the stash so I'll be able to fill that gap and then some.

Thanks! I'll have to get some of those. Thankfully Lee Valley has a store near us so it's easy to find these things.

Happy birthday Smitty! Carl

It took 6 months to get here from China but my SSYS platform car finally arrived. It even came with a bonus Jagdpanther.

For the big(ger) stuff, I have an Ikea Bësta. It'll just fit a 1/32 F-4E or Mosquito inside it. The rear wall has a mirror insert for some reason. Unfortunately they don't make those doors any more only all solid like the ones on the bottom. I should have grabbed more at the time.

Here it is with the doors on. Sue is happy that there's no more models above the dining room buffet. Although my son is now eyeing the spot for his Lego Hogwarts castle...

Phil, that's almost the hardest part. The anchors weren't the easiest thing to find, especially when you don't know what they're called.

Back to the build, in my attempts to make the top panel fit I managed to mess it up. The issue was that the boards I was using were way too thick even after planing almost 1/2" off them. The holes for mounting the wire braces are stepped. There's three different diameters to the hole as you go down. This is where a plunge router would have been handy. In trying to make the holes deeper and keeping the different required diameters, I chewed up the boards. This meant I had to do new a new top and base. Learning from my first attempt, I decided to start with 3/4" nominal thick pine boards. At the same time, I decided to make their dimensions match the original boards for depth. I used the original base to set the fence at the correct depth on my table saw and ripped the boards. For the width, I went with 32" wide. I then used the original base as a template to drill the holes. Doing it this way saved time on measuring and marking each hole individually. Going with the 3/4" nominal also saved me having to create one of those steps in the holes. I just had one to do on each and that went much easier. Then it was back to the instructions and assembling everything as before. Only this time it all went together properly! Last step is to add the doors. Which I sort of skipped over and started filling it with my finished models. . In the end, was it worth it? Definitely! I don't have any aircraft not in a display case at the moment and with the space saved, I have room in my other two display cases for future builds.