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Smile Re: New Detolf Colors

Unless you plan to customize the case with extra shelves a la Hawk's instructions (love to see pics of that) I wouldn't go for the Detolf for 1:72 or even 1:48 WWI models myself.... the shelves are so far apart that larger models will show better in it. I used mine, without modification, for 1:32 and 1:35 models and it looked pretty nice.

Perhaps it would work okay for 1:72 heavies, but you'd likely want to add more shelves.. (I was thinking that if you added at least four more shelves to the Detolf it would look cool to put a Corgi heavy on each one... )

The Billy System is great for 1:72 (everything but 4-engine heavies) and 1:48 ww1 and ww2 fighters, and this one looks interesting as a possible alternative to the detolf...

IKEA | Cabinets & sideboards | Display cabinets | BIBY | Glass-door cabinet

(looks like it would raise the display level of the shelves versus the detolf to a more natural and pleasing level... and you could do someting creative with that bottom rack perhaps?)

Definitely will look at the BIBY. Thanks for the input.
 

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