Building A Display Cabinet - GUIDE COMPLETED 03/06/18

[Palifan]

Well about bloody time! :lol:

Looks fantastic and can't wait to see it filled up, top work that man!

Ian

 

[Snaketibe]

Well about bloody time! :lol:

Looks fantastic and can't wait to see it filled up, top work that man!

Ian

Thanks, Ian. Yes, it certainly took me a damn sight longer than I ever intended, but it's nice to finally have the figures in their new home.

As for filling the rest of it, as per the 'proper' post about this in the Off Topic section (I only posted this one here since it seemed appropriate to post at least one pic showing some stuff actually in the cabinet in a thread about making the damn thing! :lol: ), I hope to get a Hasbro / Haslab Khetanna for the bottom shelf next year. By lucky chance, even though this cabinet wasn't designed to hold one, because it's such a monster, I do in fact have enough room to fit one in, so I re-jigged my display plans and compressed the Family Guy, Buffy and Angel figures to free up the bottom third to make room for Jabba's 'wheels' :-D

Jeremy

 

[Taffius]

Just a quick update to say that the cabinet (finally!) has some contents. Here's a quick taster, but if you would like to see more detailed pictures, you can do so here http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34774

Thanks.

New Cabinet - 01.jpg

Nice one. These displays look great and provided so many ideas.....thanks!

 

[Palifan]

Well about bloody time! :lol:

Looks fantastic and can't wait to see it filled up, top work that man!

Ian

Thanks, Ian. Yes, it certainly took me a damn sight longer than I ever intended, but it's nice to finally have the figures in their new home.

As for filling the rest of it, as per the 'proper' post about this in the Off Topic section (I only posted this one here since it seemed appropriate to post at least one pic showing some stuff actually in the cabinet in a thread about making the damn thing! :lol: ), I hope to get a Hasbro / Haslab Khetanna for the bottom shelf next year. By lucky chance, even though this cabinet wasn't designed to hold one, because it's such a monster, I do in fact have enough room to fit one in, so I re-jigged my display plans and compressed the Family Guy, Buffy and Angel figures to free up the bottom third to make room for Jabba's 'wheels' :-D

Jeremy

Well that would certainly fill the cabinet and also look amazing in there with some figures on it. Did you end up placing an order for one to come over to the UK or are you hoping to get one once they're released? When I was in the US earlier this year a friend said I could send one to him and he'd ship it to me but I decided against it knowing I wouldn't have the space for it. It is a thing of beauty though so hopefully you can score one at some point (if you haven't already).

Ian

 

[Snaketibe]

Just a quick update to say that the cabinet (finally!) has some contents. Here's a quick taster, but if you would like to see more detailed pictures, you can do so here http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34774

Thanks.

New Cabinet - 01.jpg

Nice one. These displays look great and provided so many ideas.....thanks!

Thanks, and good luck with your own cabinet (don't forget to show us some pics when everything's ready! )

 

[Snaketibe]

Well about bloody time! :lol:

Looks fantastic and can't wait to see it filled up, top work that man!

Ian

Thanks, Ian. Yes, it certainly took me a damn sight longer than I ever intended, but it's nice to finally have the figures in their new home.

As for filling the rest of it, as per the 'proper' post about this in the Off Topic section (I only posted this one here since it seemed appropriate to post at least one pic showing some stuff actually in the cabinet in a thread about making the damn thing! :lol: ), I hope to get a Hasbro / Haslab Khetanna for the bottom shelf next year. By lucky chance, even though this cabinet wasn't designed to hold one, because it's such a monster, I do in fact have enough room to fit one in, so I re-jigged my display plans and compressed the Family Guy, Buffy and Angel figures to free up the bottom third to make room for Jabba's 'wheels' :-D

Jeremy

Well that would certainly fill the cabinet and also look amazing in there with some figures on it. Did you end up placing an order for one to come over to the UK or are you hoping to get one once they're released? When I was in the US earlier this year a friend said I could send one to him and he'd ship it to me but I decided against it knowing I wouldn't have the space for it. It is a thing of beauty though so hopefully you can score one at some point (if you haven't already).

Ian

Thanks. In the end, I have hopefully sourced one through a friend of a friend. As you know, Hasbro wouldn't ship to customers in the UK, and I am deeply skeptical about the price in sterling of any Khetannas they do deign to put into the UK market. However, luckily a friend of mine that runs an online comic shop has stuff sent over from America regularly by a friend out there, and they both kindly agreed to let me buy one through them. So all being well, I should have one sent over some time next year (the estimated shipping date is the end of February)

 

[Palifan]

Thanks, Ian. Yes, it certainly took me a damn sight longer than I ever intended, but it's nice to finally have the figures in their new home.

As for filling the rest of it, as per the 'proper' post about this in the Off Topic section (I only posted this one here since it seemed appropriate to post at least one pic showing some stuff actually in the cabinet in a thread about making the damn thing! :lol: ), I hope to get a Hasbro / Haslab Khetanna for the bottom shelf next year. By lucky chance, even though this cabinet wasn't designed to hold one, because it's such a monster, I do in fact have enough room to fit one in, so I re-jigged my display plans and compressed the Family Guy, Buffy and Angel figures to free up the bottom third to make room for Jabba's 'wheels' :-D

Jeremy

Well that would certainly fill the cabinet and also look amazing in there with some figures on it. Did you end up placing an order for one to come over to the UK or are you hoping to get one once they're released? When I was in the US earlier this year a friend said I could send one to him and he'd ship it to me but I decided against it knowing I wouldn't have the space for it. It is a thing of beauty though so hopefully you can score one at some point (if you haven't already).

Ian

Thanks. In the end, I have hopefully sourced one through a friend of a friend. As you know, Hasbro wouldn't ship to customers in the UK, and I am deeply skeptical about the price in sterling of any Khetannas they do deign to put into the UK market. However, luckily a friend of mine that runs an online comic shop has stuff sent over from America regularly by a friend out there, and they both kindly agreed to let me buy one through them. So all being well, I should have one sent over some time next year (the estimated shipping date is the end of February)

That's great news and I can't wait to see it on display, it's going to look very impressive and I still think it was unfair of Hasbro not to offer these out to more countries. I know they've mentioned about having some allocated for Europe but I doubt it will be many and it seemed like an afterthought.

Ian

 

[Pomse2001]

wow great work :shock: but where are the pictures of the star wars ? I can only see a little bit of it to the right on a picture ? :lol:

 

[Snaketibe]

wow great work :shock: but where are the pictures of the star wars ? I can only see a little bit of it to the right on a picture ? :lol:

Thanks

As mentioned in the related post here (http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=35502), this particular cabinet build was never intended to hold vintage Star Wars items. Instead, what I wanted to do was create a 'how to' guide to show anyone who was interested how they might build their own cabinet to house whatever they wished to display, which could of course naturally include vintage Star Wars items. Although I made that fact clear in the previous thread, it was an accidental omission on my part not to reiterate it at the start of this guide, so I will amend the first post to make that clear.

As for what is in this cabinet, it was always intended to hold my Buffy, Angel and Family Guy 6" figures, plus a few other bits and pieces. However, after I started planning and building it, Hasbro announced they were making a 4" scale Khetanna, and as luck would have it this cabinet is so massive there is actually enough room to hold Jabba's sail barge on the bottom shelf, providing I compressed the other figures to take up less space and free up the bottom.

The Star Wars figures you see on the right are some modern ones which I will use to populate the barge and (hopefully, space permitting!) a couple of skiffs, to make a diorama of sorts.

 

[Pomse2001]

wow great work :shock: but where are the pictures of the star wars ? I can only see a little bit of it to the right on a picture ? :lol:

Thanks

As mentioned in the related post here (http://starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=35502), this particular cabinet build was never intended to hold vintage Star Wars items. Instead, what I wanted to do was create a 'how to' guide to show anyone who was interested how they might build their own cabinet to house whatever they wished to display, which could of course naturally include vintage Star Wars items. Although I made that fact clear in the previous thread, it was an accidental omission on my part not to reiterate it at the start of this guide, so I will amend the first post to make that clear.

As for what is in this cabinet, it was always intended to hold my Buffy, Angel and Family Guy 6" figures, plus a few other bits and pieces. However, after I started planning and building it, Hasbro announced they were making a 4" scale Khetanna, and as luck would have it this cabinet is so massive there is actually enough room to hold Jabba's sail barge on the bottom shelf, providing I compressed the other figures to take up less space and free up the bottom.

The Star Wars figures you see on the right are some modern ones which I will use to populate the barge and (hopefully, space permitting!) a couple of skiffs, to make a diorama of sorts.

Ok so it is not for vintage star wars, but it still looks great, great work

Great to read there can be a sail barge in it :shock: You have to take pictures of it when you get it

 

[Snaketibe]

Ok so it is not for vintage star wars, but it still looks great, great work

Great to read there can be a sail barge in it :shock: You have to take pictures of it when you get it

Thank you very much.

Don't worry, I will definitely post some pictures of the barge once it's on display

 

[Pomse2001]

Ok so it is not for vintage star wars, but it still looks great, great work

Great to read there can be a sail barge in it :shock: You have to take pictures of it when you get it

Thank you very much.

Don't worry, I will definitely post some pictures of the barge once it's on display

Thank you

 

[Snaketibe]

In posting a link to this thread from elsewhere to try to help another forum member, I noticed that I never did post a picture of the Sail Barge in its new home! In fairness, I have posted pictures of it elsewhere on the forum, but since I said I would post some and since they really belong in this thread, here they are:

And after a move-around to include a pair of skiffs:

 

[Cazza]

Brilliant! Love the regular skiffs in there with it as well.

 

[Snaketibe]

Brilliant! Love the regular skiffs in there with it as well.

Thanks. I've been debating whether to put real sand on the bottom shelf beneath the barge and skiffs, and maybe a bantha as well, just for that extra real Tatooine feel

 

[Cazza]

That would look amazing...