 Re: Heft vs Looks
Has anyone else had their cat decide that the bottm shelf of their aircraft display case was a good place to take a nap? This was on top of the aircraft, rudders, propellers and antennas and all!!!!!! She picked the only case I had not installed the front glass in yet. But since they were all metal, only a few propellers got bent. So I like metal. My shelves are 1/4" thick tempered glass 48" wide x 15" deep supported in the center back and on the ends. I've not had any fear of them coming crashing down on each other. And if you load them up with four B-24's or Lancasters or B-17's per shelf like I did, I was waiting for something bad to happen, but so far it has not. I love the heft of metal. It's the way to go As long as the level of detail (or lack of it) of the metal models does not make me feel ashamed, when I show the collection to other military history / modeler friends. I like MODELS, not toys. I'm a model collector, NOT a toy collector. So, I do have detailed plastic models sprinkled throughout my 1600 model aircraft / tank collection. Heck, I'm still waiting for some company to make really nice metal 1/700 scale ships to take the place of my 300 model plastic collection. The 1/700 scale metal ships on the market now to me are TOYS not models. |