Expansion Shelves Project

[Coreyeagle48]

Greetings:

After taking pictures of my collection to share with all of you, I realized there was a lot of open space in between my shelves where most of my 32X birds are located. So this weekend I set to work.

I used eight children's blocks and two old pieces of light wood from an old kid's pool table (I try to recycle materials) to make these. I then painted them gloss black. I can now get 6 aircraft on a shelf instead of my usual 3. Means more room for 32X

The shelves aren't meant to hold a lot so I keep the smallest and lightest of our 32X birds on them.

[AlloySkull]

Very good idea man, in the past few weeks I've been drawing out plans for shelving for my 32x, and it's fairly simple, moveable stuff. I really don't want anything that goes into the wall, as time goes on and I want to add another shelf, it's work.

I like that idea. For my planes, I use the wall, a desk, and some TV trays. I'm looking to make a shelving unit level with the desk, to eliminate the TV trays, and add one shelf under the top one. Since these two will be below a window, I cannot move up. It will probably be made from 1/2" x 12-14" pine and using t-braces with screws, painted gloss black. Again, very simple.

But your idea is a grand one for the desk. Normally I can fit 6 planes on the desk in offset rows. But using your idea I can add the whole way up the wall, if I so please. I think I'd go ahead and spend the money on threaded steel rods, using nuts to adjust height for each shelf and hold them in place. It's going to be quite tedious to get everything level and it's going to take time. But the structure of the steel rods, coupled with 1/2" pine will be a good one. I could move most of the non-hanging XD out of my room into my plane room with this.

Sounds like a plan, and I have the wood already. Always a plus.

But a question for anyone who can answer, what would I use on the ends of the rods to keep them from scratching my desk?

[Jagdpanther]

I also have been thinking about putting up shelves but not sure where yet.

[tmanthegreat]

Corey, I've done what you are showing on a smaller scale, and it works great! I have a small shelf where I display some of my 1:32 WWII and Modern armor. Using some finished .5" thick pine boards, I fashioned a little secondary shelf and can now display eight tanks where before I could only display four. I also did something similar in my storage cabinet so that I could display some figures and still have space to store a few vehicles