Awesome Thanks. Any tips on maintenance and such for a newbie like me ?

Managed to find some old Dragon warbirds at www.cyber-hobby.com. Ordered myself a F14 and F15 each. Price incl shipment for both is around rm300. Pretty decent pricing. Also got a Hobby Master F16 from Jumblies.

Dragon warbird series are not bad , just lack of weapons. I have 2 f-18 super hornet from dragon , loving it.
By the way toypanic is selling HM F-4,F-16 and F-18 .
Check it out .

Yeah, Dragon mostly are light on weapons but you can always buy the additional weapon packs but not sure on whether they can be installed easily and you will need to make sure you buy the right missiles....

Thanks for sharing the toypanic sales.....prices are pretty decent...

Where do you guys&gals store/display all your precious models?
Is Ikea glass display cabinet good enough? Need to start organize nice nice oredi as the collections are growing by the day... and oso to maintain "peaceful time" with wifey la!

Jumblies sales is on. They added quite a number of new items. Happy buying all

In the box .....
My Ikea detolf can fit 17 planes 1/72
Custom made display cabinet soon ...

LOL, in the box...
At least better than mine, all displayed on the floor.

OK, many thanks for the ikea model, will go see see this weekend.

The Detolf is cheap n good but dem heavy....4 sided glass
My only complain is that the individual shelf height is kinda high and hence the waste of space

Ikea used to have another model .... 3 sided glass with wooden backing and the cornering is also wood. At least I managed to create more shelves but inserting more levels...too bad they don sell these anymore

I have 3 detolf cabinets and 1 of the wood+glass cabinet.....soon I will need to pack all my models in the boxes liao......

wat new items? only saw 1 new F22.....

songcm, I made some arcylic boxes and managed to add another layer in between the shelf. So instead of 4 layers, I can possibly have 8 layers. Had one done last week, maybe going to do a couple more this weekend.

Can u take a pic and show us?

Here are the pics

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Sorry, didn't realized the attachments didn't work the first time round. Sorry for the pictures which are sideways..... not sure why but even if I rotate the pictures and re-saved, they still appear sideways.

Thanks for the pic.
How do u make them?
U glue 3-4 pieces of arcylic panels together to make a box and place them on the selves? Where do u get these arcylic panels?

Yes, glued the arcylic panels together using adhesive. The arcylic panels were actually leftover from my brother's architecture projects. These panels are harder to find i.e. they are not available at normal stationery shops. You have to go to those shops specializing in arts materials especially those that sells materials for architecture models.
Currently working on converting one of my wall mounted cabinet to display aircraft models. Still long way to go

Hi songcm,

Thank you for your valuable inputs. Will also look see look see @ local furniture shops... but most likely will get the Detolf lo, affordable ma

Why la pack your models into boxes, so sad...

Harrier jets -green camo-, some Tornado jets, a lot of propeller aircrafts...

Actually, hornetEJ gave us a very good idea. Buy Detolf, later add arcylic panels into the Detolf. Then from "original" Detolf 4 shelves, into "sendiri bikin Detolf" 8 shelves...

yeah...saw 2 new Tornadoes.....u getting them?
Luckily no further discount on Aviano as I just ordered them last weekend.

Need to pack them up becoz I am leaving the country soon....dunno if I am going to ship them as well.....might have a lelong later.....