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Offline MimmaBlue

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MimmaBlue's Collection
« on: January 13, 2014, 01:03:32 »
Hey all, thought I would start a thread about my (rather haphazard) and modest 'collection'.

My main focus is my figures and specials. I like that they are affordable, gorgeous, and don't take up much space. I had shelves put up in my home office and just love looking at them. My kids are allowed to borrow them.  ;)

I can't really put up anymore shelves  :( so I think as I get more figures I will have rotate them and put 'away' my not so favourite ones. I'd love some advice/ideas on how to display them, in themes, in series? I kind of like how random they all are ATM, aside from my least favourite ones being on the top shelf.  ;)




And here is a glimpse into the collection the kids have in their shared room. I have ALL the boxes stored in the roof. I love my small blue divided boxes from Ikea for storing the small pieces.



I'll try and do an inventory of all the sets I have.
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Offline basilsdad

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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2014, 01:38:01 »
Great display of your collection, the storage boxes seem to be just the ticket!

Joe
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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2014, 08:39:22 »
Love those shelves :love:

And those boxes seem really handy! I'm still struggling to organize mine... :-[
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Offline cheng

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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2014, 08:51:05 »
those narrow shelves are what I needed in the past to put small themes (I collect mainly klickies without buildings)...did you have the carpenter specially construct them? or are they from Ikea too? (see too narrow for other uses)
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Offline MimmaBlue

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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2014, 09:01:38 »
Quote from: cheng on January 13, 2014, 08:51:05
those narrow shelves are what I needed in the past to put small themes (I collect mainly klickies without buildings)...did you have the carpenter specially construct them? or are they from Ikea too? (see too narrow for other uses)

I got these from my local (very large) hardware store. I think Ikea have some metal shelves like these. They are sold/marketed as shelves you use to display picture frames, hence why they are so narrow.
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Offline Georgeag1972

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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2014, 09:28:48 »
Wonderful collection and the shelves are very nice, congrats!!

George. :)
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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2014, 20:36:20 »
Cool collection. Those shelves look great. I think they look fine random (or sorted with your favourites lower), but you could also sort them based on series of Fi?ures they are from, if you want.
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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2014, 22:01:43 »
I love the way you're displaying all the figures. They look great!

And the zoo your children put up is  :love:

I should get some of those storage boxes too...
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Offline Tiermann

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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2014, 22:17:19 »
Great looking display. You have enough height there you could use small blocks so some figures are higher, then put others more in front of them. Might be worth a try unless it looks too busy for you. I've crammed an amazing number of figures onto shelves in the past. Now they mostly live in boxes.
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Offline DrDalek6

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Re: MimmaBlue's Collection
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2014, 22:34:32 »
Nice looks like you and your kids have both got good collections, I like the way you've done your figures they look very smart personally I try to arrange most of mine by theme and try to do little scenes so it looks like you're catching them going about ehir lives but, there's no right or wrong way to do things and as long as you're happy with it that's the important thing  :)   
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