Ever felt like your "army" of models is losing its glamour after some time?
Truth is that to the friends n family of yours, the model aircraft colletion in your room, does seem all that exciting. After a period of time, your self even may find that this partly dusted "army" of small airplanes has lost its glamour.
Well, I got you a real sweet idea, to give that cabinet a breeze of fresh air. With a VERY simple 1,2,3 step procedure, your cabinet may be more exciting that the actual field trip to your local airport for spotting!
First off, measure your cabinets interior walls and the distance between the shelfs. Imagine creating a different background for EACH shelf. That way you can separate your collection to your likes, according to eg.: country, era, ariline etc.
Design the background (I could surely provide you with one if you would like ;) ) or use photographs you have taken, or from a free shared online source and crop it to the dimentions measured in you cabinet. Once you have designed it, find a local plotter printing services store and have it printed on an adhesive "vinyl paper". This makes it easy to apply and very easy to take off once you are bored of it. Also ask for a mate coating service.
Now you will need 2 kinds tools. Man's worst invention, the creditcard and a handheld spray pump with water and a drop of dishwashing soap.
Spray the cabinet walls evenly just enough to have tiny droplets standing on it. Don't get it soaking and running all over the place!
Then take the roll of the printed vinyl, remove a tiny bit of the paper behind it, wet it with the spray and apply it slightly on the cabinet wall with such a manner, that it will follow the rest of the sticking procedure in a straight line! THIS IS THE HARDEST PART! Try to allign it with any possible way (eg, draw a pecil line before hand, to keep on a straight horizontal line)
As soon at the STRAIGHT line is accomplished proceed with the unrolling and unsticking of the printed paper using the creditcard along the centre of the vinyl
As you go along, wet the upper layer of the vinyl with water and swipe that card from centre to the edges to remove the witheld water droplets under the vinyl. Apply PRESSURE after the 2nd and 3rd time of going over the same spots.Do not fear you doing this to hard cause vinyl is flexible and the card will go along smoothly.
Moving along you will find it easyer to apply it. Like I said, the beginning is the toughest part!!
Also create different hights to host different scale aicrafts per shelf like 1:500 to 1:200 shelfs
You can also do the same for the ground creating an apron design or purchasing a ready made ground foil for a total reality effect!
You may notice my light supplies I have placed on top of the cabinet, to add some daylight effect and night. This is also a nice option but prefer lighting systems that do not raise significat temratures as the halogen systems, to avoid the plastic models from melting or possible fire!!!!
Remember that plain white cabinet?
Well... white NO MORE!!!
I hope this cabinet solution will be an inspiration to you !
Good luck! ;)
Truth is that to the friends n family of yours, the model aircraft colletion in your room, does seem all that exciting. After a period of time, your self even may find that this partly dusted "army" of small airplanes has lost its glamour.
Well, I got you a real sweet idea, to give that cabinet a breeze of fresh air. With a VERY simple 1,2,3 step procedure, your cabinet may be more exciting that the actual field trip to your local airport for spotting!
First off, measure your cabinets interior walls and the distance between the shelfs. Imagine creating a different background for EACH shelf. That way you can separate your collection to your likes, according to eg.: country, era, ariline etc.
Design the background (I could surely provide you with one if you would like ;) ) or use photographs you have taken, or from a free shared online source and crop it to the dimentions measured in you cabinet. Once you have designed it, find a local plotter printing services store and have it printed on an adhesive "vinyl paper". This makes it easy to apply and very easy to take off once you are bored of it. Also ask for a mate coating service.
Now you will need 2 kinds tools. Man's worst invention, the creditcard and a handheld spray pump with water and a drop of dishwashing soap.
Spray the cabinet walls evenly just enough to have tiny droplets standing on it. Don't get it soaking and running all over the place!
Then take the roll of the printed vinyl, remove a tiny bit of the paper behind it, wet it with the spray and apply it slightly on the cabinet wall with such a manner, that it will follow the rest of the sticking procedure in a straight line! THIS IS THE HARDEST PART! Try to allign it with any possible way (eg, draw a pecil line before hand, to keep on a straight horizontal line)
As soon at the STRAIGHT line is accomplished proceed with the unrolling and unsticking of the printed paper using the creditcard along the centre of the vinyl
As you go along, wet the upper layer of the vinyl with water and swipe that card from centre to the edges to remove the witheld water droplets under the vinyl. Apply PRESSURE after the 2nd and 3rd time of going over the same spots.Do not fear you doing this to hard cause vinyl is flexible and the card will go along smoothly.
Moving along you will find it easyer to apply it. Like I said, the beginning is the toughest part!!
Also create different hights to host different scale aicrafts per shelf like 1:500 to 1:200 shelfs
You can also do the same for the ground creating an apron design or purchasing a ready made ground foil for a total reality effect!
You may notice my light supplies I have placed on top of the cabinet, to add some daylight effect and night. This is also a nice option but prefer lighting systems that do not raise significat temratures as the halogen systems, to avoid the plastic models from melting or possible fire!!!!
Remember that plain white cabinet?
Well... white NO MORE!!!
I hope this cabinet solution will be an inspiration to you !
Good luck! ;)
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