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Spent a couple of hours tonight pushing shapes around my screen Not fully happy with my efforts 😕 Trying to create the vibe of a flush to the wall mounted LED TV screen, hence the thin, low profile black picture frame 🤔 ODC in me is liking a recessed pocket for each car, all the random car colors and shapes are already doing my nut in 😵‍💫 Feeling like Ron Dennis did before he fitted directional water jets to stop his gold fish from swimming randomly around his circular garden pond 🤣 Option 1 Satin black pocketed back board, floor is angled downwards by 15deg to help show more than just the side view of each car, each pocket lite by a hidden 5mm LED down lighter Option 2 White melamine faced, thin veneer plywood, pockets angle downwards, same as Option 1, with frosted, back illuminated panel This look Option 3 Same as Option 2, but satin black pocket sides, didn't think this would work, looks better than I was expecting Wall I've chosen is a partion stud wall between my garage and Mrs WC's utility room There is another option but this depends on Mrs WC Planning Approval as it will rob her valuable wall unit space 🥲 Got the idea from WC Jr's and my visit to Liberty Walk HQ, their board room has a glass wall between it and the workshop, displaying a very cool collection of 1 18 models of real cars they've built for customers 😎 Looking at other displays, especially background colours, think the colour emphasis of each model will be lost with a clear, glass background 🤔 Black background really makes the colours of each model pop more, my favorite today 🙄 But back lighting works too 🤔 Also need a neat way to highlight the race winners from all the tuggers eg different coloured LED's or back lite back ground 🤔 Feel free to pitch in with observations, suggestions or just pile in and rip into pulling apart my ideas 😬

Hadn't thought of that, good idea 🤔 Let's see what the IB Collective think of the design first

Started designing my 1 43 display 🤔 Ist job, basic layout, went for date order, top left, working across, then down Decided on one 'big or go home' display, 2m x 1.1m in size 😎 Limited it to a 180x car display, any more and it was getting too big for a single 2.4m x 1.2m MDF sheet 😬 Not done creating real cars so left space for 9x more cars, should be able to retire by then 😁 Next job, throw some display case ideas around on CAD, will post up for your critiquing pleasure 🤗

One for the home fans £168

Fell down this scale model rabbit hole today https://dbsworks.net/en-gb/products/1-4-mclaren-f1-bmw-s70-2-scale-engine-prototype €189 for a 1/4 scale F1 GTR engine

Agree 100% Would rather stay at home, walk, take the bus or cycle than buy a Testicle

Kia Norway marketing trolls Musk 🤣 https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/kia-trolls-elon-musk-in-norway-upsets-tesla-stans/

Ohhh, nice, a 96 GTR, can tell by the headlight covers 🤓 GTR's are addictive

We need pics of the 2-man 5000 nautical mile, diesel surface submarine he's been busy Mc Givering up in his shed 🤫

I've got digger, envy! Are you gardening, or just landscaping 😁

Good work Mark-san! Need to design and have made two 1 43 wall mounted glass fronted display cases for 80x cars Each around 1m2 in size Thought about doing just one case for my 160x cars but just the glass would weigh around 20kg 😬 Have a few ideas but open to suggestions

On my way back I stopped at Diakoku Parking Area again, must be my 7th or 8th visit Love this place 🥰

How's this for a hotel lobby entrance 😎 On the way to the loos View from the cafe View from the outside terrace View of my exceedingly reasonably priced lunch

Toyota home crowd was well represented But star of the show for me is this one, they had a sound loop of it running flat out 🥰

Very lucky timing as the museum had a limited time only display of rally cars Have more 1 43 cars in my collection, was still impressive