Displaying the Eldorado Fortress

[SpacePolice89]

I recently bough the Rudstra glass-door cabinet from Ikea to display my Eldorado Fortress. On the other shelves I will do similar backgrounds and display the Imperial Trading Post and the Enchanted Island. Each shelf will be a small diorama with a lot of action going on and I'll add smaller sets and other stuff later to make it look like scenes from the old catalogs. I also plan to do similar cabinets for Space, Castle and Town later. Has anyone else experience from using Ikea glass-door cabinets and can recommend suitable models?

Edited July 11, 2024 by SpacePolice89

[Mister Phes]

14 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:

Has anyone else experience from using Ikea glass-door cabinets and can recommend suitable models?

Not I!  But I am curious to know how effectively such cabinets prevent dust from settling on the LEGO...

 

[Horation]

@Mister Phes, from what I've seen, fully closed shelves work, anything else is basically useless.

[Mazin]

i love the fact that those boats realy look like if they were on the body of water, because of the reflection :) i dont know if Youve done this effect for purpose and if it looks this way all the time, rather than only ot this particular photo, but its realy something :)

[SpacePolice89]

6 hours ago, Mister Phes said:

Not I!  But I am curious to know how effectively such cabinets prevent dust from settling on the LEGO...

 

Time will tell but I hope it'll keep most of the dust away.

27 minutes ago, Mazin said:

i love the fact that those boats realy look like if they were on the body of water, because of the reflection :) i dont know if Youve done this effect for purpose and if it looks this way all the time, rather than only ot this particular photo, but its realy something :)

I didn't plan it at all, I just chose a suitable background and suddenly that effect appeared. It is visible from most angles.

[Mazin]

19 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:

I didn't plan it at all, I just chose a suitable background and suddenly that effect appeared. It is visible from most angles.

Very cool. Even those tree/bush works perfectly in that left corner, as if that boat was coming from there, investigating if it can serve as a cover for pirates, while ironically they approach from the open sea ;)

[SpacePolice89]

I made some changes

and added another display

[DonQuixote]

Looks really good with that background 

[SpacePolice89]

10 hours ago, DonQuixote said:

Looks really good with that background 

Thank you! When I planned this I knew what sort of background I wanted but I had to find it. In the end I found what I wanted on Ebay. It was larger but I have cut it down to fit the back wall of the cabinet.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325939241735

 

 

[DonQuixote]

On 9/12/2024 at 2:10 PM, SpacePolice89 said:

Thank you! When I planned this I knew what sort of background I wanted but I had to find it. In the end I found what I wanted on Ebay. It was larger but I have cut it down to fit the back wall of the cabinet.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325939241735

 

 

I saw somebody doing something similar with Rivendell. That set allready is beautiful but with mountains and a waterfall in the background ... Wow. It makes it even more impressive. 

[SBCMayor]

I love the displays! I see you have a little Smuggler's Shanty worked into the large combined pirate's base! A couple others in there too. I love working these smaller sets into the larger ones, though as a kid I didn't have too many of the larger ones so the smaller ones sort of just sat there on make believe reefs! 

[SpacePolice89]

5 hours ago, SBCMayor said:

I love the displays! I see you have a little Smuggler's Shanty worked into the large combined pirate's base! A couple others in there too. I love working these smaller sets into the larger ones, though as a kid I didn't have too many of the larger ones so the smaller ones sort of just sat there on make believe reefs! 

Thank you! I really like the smaller sets and they fill an important role in the Pirates lineup. 6234 Renegade's Raft was my first Pirates set and got me interested in the theme.

[SBCMayor]

5 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:

Thank you! I really like the smaller sets and they fill an important role in the Pirates lineup. 6234 Renegade's Raft was my first Pirates set and got me interested in the theme.

I do too. Like I said in my other post Burried Treasure was my first set in the series and I have always had a special place in my heart for it.