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1 hour ago, derex3592 said:

Love the lone trooper..looks like he's sayin "come and take it!"

Haha, yeah most my stuff is still packed away. That is one of the only new figures I opened and left out to mess with 

57 minutes ago, Grey728 said:

Love it so far! What kind of cabinet is that second one if you don’t mind my asking? Not the detolf but the other?

Thanks! That is a Billy bookcase with glass shelves and doors. 

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1 hour ago, Slave IV said:

Haha, yeah most my stuff is still packed away. That is one of the only new figures I opened and left out to mess with 

Thanks! That is a Billy bookcase with glass shelves and doors. 

Great case!  What sort of lighting are you using if you don't mind me asking.

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27 minutes ago, sumyumgoy said:

Great case!  What sort of lighting are you using if you don't mind me asking.

You can see a strip in the top of billy case that isn’t on. Those are old IKEA sets that are ok but expensive, not bright and don’t have good color temps. I still like them and will use them as ambient back up lighting because they do have color control. 

The lights that you see on in both cases are led strip lights similar to what @dafob mentioned a couple pages back. I went with model 3528 strips which are brighter than normal but not quite as bright or more importantly, not as thick as 5050 strips. Also important to me is they are a more daylight color temperature instead of the typical warm temp leds from ikea. They have self adhesive tape on the back and super easy to install. Detolf took less than 10 mins. Billy shelf took a bit over 10 mins because I cut the strip to separate for each side and had to connect it all back with additional wiring. 

The light sets including power and wireless remote were about $10 each (there was a sale but not much more regularly. Ridiculously good deal and I’m about to return the extra IKEA less I bought before. 

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3 hours ago, vlenhoff said:

This is why i love this place. I'll save it in my bookmarks. I was trying to remember the name of these stands for quite a while now. 

don't forget to add the 10% off coupon MDAY19 .  It's good until the end of the day.

10 hours ago, Slave IV said:

You can see a strip in the top of billy case that isn’t on. Those are old IKEA sets that are ok but expensive, not bright and don’t have good color temps. I still like them and will use them as ambient back up lighting because they do have color control. 

The lights that you see on in both cases are led strip lights similar to what @dafob mentioned a couple pages back. I went with model 3528 strips which are brighter than normal but not quite as bright or more importantly, not as thick as 5050 strips. Also important to me is they are a more daylight color temperature instead of the typical warm temp leds from ikea. They have self adhesive tape on the back and super easy to install. Detolf took less than 10 mins. Billy shelf took a bit over 10 mins because I cut the strip to separate for each side and had to connect it all back with additional wiring. 

The light sets including power and wireless remote were about $10 each (there was a sale but not much more regularly. Ridiculously good deal and I’m about to return the extra IKEA less I bought before. 

Thanks for the info...I went with 3528 with my detolf also but it took me quite a bit longer to install mine lol.  Finally got a second detolf though, time to fill it up =) 

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1 hour ago, sumyumgoy said:

don't forget to add the 10% off coupon MDAY19 .  It's good until the end of the day.

Thanks for the info...I went with 3528 with my detolf also but it took me quite a bit longer to install mine lol.  Finally got a second detolf though, time to fill it up =) 

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Ah yes, because of the arrangement you went with. I’m sure it took a lot longer, lol! What is the total length of light strip used in each detolf that way?

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14 hours ago, vlenhoff said:

This is why i love this place. I'll save it in my bookmarks. I was trying to remember the name of these stands for quite a while now. 

follow them on Facebook, every few months they give a 5 or 10% discount code. it's worth waiting for imo.

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17 hours ago, Slave IV said:

Ah yes, because of the arrangement you went with. I’m sure it took a lot longer, lol! What is the total length of light strip used in each detolf that way?

1 roll, which I think was 5 meters, was good for 1.5 Detolfs with the arrangement that I had.

I've also got a billy display case like yours but with different doors.  I haven't quite decided whether I want to light it up similar to the Detolfs or have the strips on the doors.

16 hours ago, Bolt said:

Nice Monster!  That’s 1/72?

@Sanity is Optionalanswered it!  Hi-Metal R Monster, definitely recommend it.  It's pretty much what started me down the rabbit hole lol.

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39 minutes ago, HardlyNever said:

New house, new(ish) set-up.  SDFM:

 

DYRL and beyond:

 

All together:

 

Still a work in progress.  Want to add some backgrounds, hide the cords a little more, but it will do for now.

:good::good:forgot how nice the draken looks with flanking lil drakens...

 

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Thanks guys!

The 19 with blue parts is the Arcadia we are testing a conversion kit for the ravens version

 

The VF-9 cutlass is the resin version design by Xigfrid (link below)

 

And the Thunder hammer is the resin version release a long time ago also we working in a upgrade to make a better version

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11 hours ago, valhary said:

I got this of second hand

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Great display!

That resin Thunder Hummer is a great kit. IIRC Valk009 commissioned and had the kit casted many years ago. It holds up really well and looks good to this day. I have mine in a box along with the 1/48 version which keeps having warp issues since it’s release. :(

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