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Old 05-08-2019, 02:16 PM
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At home, it depends on your display capabilities. You need a good-sized cabinet with fairly dust-proof doors or a wide shelf you can devote to display.

At paper modeling events, the usual tables are about twice the length and the width of a card table. At the Paper Modelers at Army Heritage Days events, like the one coming up the weekend after next, we cover the tables with black sheets. The models look pretty good against black cloth. Those tables would be big enough to display your model, as a finished product or a work-in-progress. Even better is some kind of a base, whether it be a large piece of cardboard covered with paper printed to emulate tarmac, or a three-dimensional base. I used to display my Horrible 1/33 Hampden on top of its storage box, which started out as a cardboard mailing box for a Christmas wreath and which I painted and varnished.

Just some ideas. Others will have more to say.

I hope this isn't a threadjack, Bob, but it seemed relevant to your general topic of storage (and display).

Don
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