How Do You Display Your K&c Collection (1 Viewer)
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wellington
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I do and not only can you see them when you want it protects them and I haven't had to dust any of them yet!!
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Louis Badolato
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Behind glass really cuts down on the dusting, but dioramas just add so much to your collection. If you're worried about the dust, just steal one of your wife's makeup brushes, and borrow her hairdryer (set to cold, not hot!). If you want some ideas about both methods of display, have a look at the Treefrog picture galleries. There are some wonderful collections on display.
jazzeum
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Kevin,
Did you look at this http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1024 thread. Also you can look at motionmodels.com who can make anything you want at any scale you want.
Did you look at this http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1024 thread. Also you can look at motionmodels.com who can make anything you want at any scale you want.
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I display them on/ in:
- Table top dioramas in the TV Room
- Illuminated curio cabinets (home office)
- Lawyers bookcase onto and inside (home office)
- Top of my fireplace mantle (home office)
All of them are in some kind of diorama, unfortunately too sets many are still in boxes but rotating helps.
Carlos
- Table top dioramas in the TV Room
- Illuminated curio cabinets (home office)
- Lawyers bookcase onto and inside (home office)
- Top of my fireplace mantle (home office)
All of them are in some kind of diorama, unfortunately too sets many are still in boxes but rotating helps.
Carlos
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The absolute best way to display K&C or any other toy soldiers you might wish to collect is to -
(1) Move out the unnecessary items from you home, like your family and all of their possessions;
(2) Keep the computer so that you can order more sets for your collection and communicate on the forum;
(3) Keep the kitchen intact so that you can survive without starving;
(4) Use one half of your home to display your collection in display cabinets that would completely fill all the walls in the area chosen for display;
(5) Remove all non-load bearing walls to make more room in one half of your home one big diorama, or a series of dioramas if you collect more than one time period;
(6) Install load bearing walls that rotate allowing double the display area;
(7) Install disappearing floor areas that contain rotating displays; and,
(8) Buy the neighbors house and expand into it.
Otherwise, just do as you feel you like best. I use a combination of shelves, cabinets, and diorama.
Michael
(1) Move out the unnecessary items from you home, like your family and all of their possessions;
(2) Keep the computer so that you can order more sets for your collection and communicate on the forum;
(3) Keep the kitchen intact so that you can survive without starving;
(4) Use one half of your home to display your collection in display cabinets that would completely fill all the walls in the area chosen for display;
(5) Remove all non-load bearing walls to make more room in one half of your home one big diorama, or a series of dioramas if you collect more than one time period;
(6) Install load bearing walls that rotate allowing double the display area;
(7) Install disappearing floor areas that contain rotating displays; and,
(8) Buy the neighbors house and expand into it.
Otherwise, just do as you feel you like best. I use a combination of shelves, cabinets, and diorama.
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I assume if you are using one half of your house for display and dioramas then the other half is to be used to store the boxes, right?
Louis Badolato
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The best way to display your collection is to take Jim Hillestad's approach. Buy a big tract of land with two houses on it, adjacent to each other. Then you and your wife live in one, and your collection lives in the other. The boxes are stored in the basement. I kid you not. Jim actually did this. About 35,000 toy soliders, and countless historical objects in one house, his wife and two Norwegian Elkhounds in the other. Its a good deal if you can get it.
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Louis Badolato said:
Where does this gentleman live, does he offer tours, and is he available as a consultant to others interested in doing as he did? What a set-up. Now that's the way to display your toy soldiers.....
Michael
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Dear Michael,
His place is in the Pocanos, in Pennsylvania, right near the Delaware Water Gap (about a 1-1/2 hour drive from New York city). He is a dealer, and does give tours of his Museum, so check out his website (the address is in the above post) and go check his museum out. Jim is a little gruff, but once you get past the gruffness is a good guy. His wife is really nice. The one thing I have to warn you about, he is a collector more than he is a dealer, so he may refuse to sell you what you want to buy.
His place is in the Pocanos, in Pennsylvania, right near the Delaware Water Gap (about a 1-1/2 hour drive from New York city). He is a dealer, and does give tours of his Museum, so check out his website (the address is in the above post) and go check his museum out. Jim is a little gruff, but once you get past the gruffness is a good guy. His wife is really nice. The one thing I have to warn you about, he is a collector more than he is a dealer, so he may refuse to sell you what you want to buy.
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I was admiring Michael Haynes' collection on the photo album. Brilliant. It seems to me that this is the ideal way to display if you have the room - are you there Michael? What do you say? Are you Sceic2? If so you also get the funniest post award in my book. Best wishes, Kevin.
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Forum members can rate the threads by using the "Rating" tab at the upper right of the first post. It does not seem to be a popular feature and seldom used.panda1gen said:Why is this thread 4 star? What am I missing?
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For those who are interested, I carry a line of acrylic display cases and make custom cases also. They have proven very popluar at toy soldier shows. You can see them on my website at www.greenwoodstoysoldiers.com:)
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If you have the patience and are willing to continue to read this, you will understand my point and reason for posting this on this particular thread. I sometimes have been accused of being long-winded; but I would prefer to use the term - through. I believe that actions have meaning and that these meanings are important to our human existence.
About a year ago, the Delhi Lama was speaking at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. My town also has a university campus named the University of Minnesota, Morris. At the same time that the Delhi Lama was attracting large crowds in the Metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul area, for his speeches he sent a group of his monks here to perform here at our campus.
The monks were wonderful. They sang Buddhist chants, lectured on Buddhism, and made a sand sculpture. They spent four days and nights working 24 hours a day to construct a very elaborate sand sculpture using many colors of various grades of sand. It was very large, very intricate, and very beautiful. The key term here is – was.
They started the sculpture when they first arrived and completed it just prior to their leaving. When they left Morris, they invited the community to watch as they poured the sand from the sculpture into the Pomme de Terre River. Before they arrived at the river, the monks carefully swept all of the sand grains from the completed sculpture into a very elaborately decorated clay pot that appeared to be very old. One of the monks explained that the purpose was to transfer the prayer that the sculpture represented into the universe to communicate it to humanity. It was prayer for peace and harmony in our community.
Now what in the world has that to do with toy soldier displays; well let me explain. For those of you that have seen the diorama that I built, its in the photo gallery section of Treefrog’ home page under the name Michael Haynes, well - say good bye to it. I have begun, with my six-year old grandson who just moved here to live with me, to take it apart. Yes Shannon, it’s as good as gone. I have about 25 to 30 boxes of various sizes full of the trees, walls, and other stuff in (not the soldiers or vehicles) and I need more.
I plan to put in a large shelving system with a depth of 30 to 36 inches to allow for smaller diorama displays. I will then be constructing a large diorama for my new passion, the Napoleonic Wars.
The reason why I say all that I have in this posting is that like the monks, I have sent the diorama into the universe. The only pictures of it are those that Pete and Shannon took. I did the same thing with my railroad layout. They only exist in my memory.
But, things change and so do I. I will be taking pictures as I build this thing and I plan to post them here. I will be using some of my own ideas but I will also be using some ideas that you all have shared with me on this forum. Michael
About a year ago, the Delhi Lama was speaking at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. My town also has a university campus named the University of Minnesota, Morris. At the same time that the Delhi Lama was attracting large crowds in the Metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul area, for his speeches he sent a group of his monks here to perform here at our campus.
The monks were wonderful. They sang Buddhist chants, lectured on Buddhism, and made a sand sculpture. They spent four days and nights working 24 hours a day to construct a very elaborate sand sculpture using many colors of various grades of sand. It was very large, very intricate, and very beautiful. The key term here is – was.
They started the sculpture when they first arrived and completed it just prior to their leaving. When they left Morris, they invited the community to watch as they poured the sand from the sculpture into the Pomme de Terre River. Before they arrived at the river, the monks carefully swept all of the sand grains from the completed sculpture into a very elaborately decorated clay pot that appeared to be very old. One of the monks explained that the purpose was to transfer the prayer that the sculpture represented into the universe to communicate it to humanity. It was prayer for peace and harmony in our community.
Now what in the world has that to do with toy soldier displays; well let me explain. For those of you that have seen the diorama that I built, its in the photo gallery section of Treefrog’ home page under the name Michael Haynes, well - say good bye to it. I have begun, with my six-year old grandson who just moved here to live with me, to take it apart. Yes Shannon, it’s as good as gone. I have about 25 to 30 boxes of various sizes full of the trees, walls, and other stuff in (not the soldiers or vehicles) and I need more.
I plan to put in a large shelving system with a depth of 30 to 36 inches to allow for smaller diorama displays. I will then be constructing a large diorama for my new passion, the Napoleonic Wars.
The reason why I say all that I have in this posting is that like the monks, I have sent the diorama into the universe. The only pictures of it are those that Pete and Shannon took. I did the same thing with my railroad layout. They only exist in my memory.
But, things change and so do I. I will be taking pictures as I build this thing and I plan to post them here. I will be using some of my own ideas but I will also be using some ideas that you all have shared with me on this forum.
Michael