Irish
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Hey everyone! I’ve had something in the works for a little while now and feel this is the perfect opportunity to write up a little thread on my new cabinet I got for my models and how you guys can find one too! Seems kinda good to be true at times but it really is simple. It really falls down onto your taste with what cabinet style you prefer.
So in this case china cabinets are some of the easiest to find for free and if lucky enough, look really good! Looking on Facebook marketplace, which is your best bet or whatever buy, trade, sell platform you may use. Make sure you only find ones for free, don’t EVER pay a dime for china cabinets, people get rid of them for a reason, however they work great for us model collectors. For example, I found one a week or two ago on Facebook marketplace (which is your best bet for finding free cabinets) and all it took was a truck and an hour drive. So really I should say “free at a cost” however in a lot of scenarios they *should* be closer.
(Cabinet I got when we loaded it off the truck)
Now with the struggles is not everyone may have a truck or large minivan to move such a hefty object. One way around this is depending on the simplicity of the cabinet is you could take it apart and fit it much easier into a car. Now this doesn’t mean this works for everyone and doesn’t mean you still can’t get one online and such. This is more of sharing the one I got and more of an encouragement to others that you can save maybe even a few hundred bucks by taking some time to look onto FB. Reality is these things are really nice if you find a good example or even take some time to fix up one to your liking. Additionally it’s super rewarding in my opinion with finding deals like this. Real quick though here’s a few more photos of my cabinet!
(Would’ve snapped some better pictures but I wasn’t looking too great this late at night
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So with mine I did remove the arch on the top because of space and just wasn’t my thing. Secondly since we had to take the whole thing apart to get downstairs into my room, during that one of the mirrors cracked, thankfully it wasn’t too bad and we could fix it easily (seen in 3rd picture, bottom right). This unit was a two piece set as well so the bottom had storage for all my boxes! Some also may come with display lights which mine did, however i’m a little concerned if it will do anything to models given how powerful they are, especially when I plan to get some Dragons soon.
To wrap up, this is nothing much other than me sharing my new cabinet I got as well with some information on how you could get score a deal like this. I hope I covered everything in this, doesn’t help I impulsively make a post this long at night so feel free to ask any questions and I would be more than happy to help anyone look for one!
So in this case china cabinets are some of the easiest to find for free and if lucky enough, look really good! Looking on Facebook marketplace, which is your best bet or whatever buy, trade, sell platform you may use. Make sure you only find ones for free, don’t EVER pay a dime for china cabinets, people get rid of them for a reason, however they work great for us model collectors. For example, I found one a week or two ago on Facebook marketplace (which is your best bet for finding free cabinets) and all it took was a truck and an hour drive. So really I should say “free at a cost” however in a lot of scenarios they *should* be closer.
(Cabinet I got when we loaded it off the truck)
Now with the struggles is not everyone may have a truck or large minivan to move such a hefty object. One way around this is depending on the simplicity of the cabinet is you could take it apart and fit it much easier into a car. Now this doesn’t mean this works for everyone and doesn’t mean you still can’t get one online and such. This is more of sharing the one I got and more of an encouragement to others that you can save maybe even a few hundred bucks by taking some time to look onto FB. Reality is these things are really nice if you find a good example or even take some time to fix up one to your liking. Additionally it’s super rewarding in my opinion with finding deals like this. Real quick though here’s a few more photos of my cabinet!
(Would’ve snapped some better pictures but I wasn’t looking too great this late at night
)So with mine I did remove the arch on the top because of space and just wasn’t my thing. Secondly since we had to take the whole thing apart to get downstairs into my room, during that one of the mirrors cracked, thankfully it wasn’t too bad and we could fix it easily (seen in 3rd picture, bottom right). This unit was a two piece set as well so the bottom had storage for all my boxes! Some also may come with display lights which mine did, however i’m a little concerned if it will do anything to models given how powerful they are, especially when I plan to get some Dragons soon.
To wrap up, this is nothing much other than me sharing my new cabinet I got as well with some information on how you could get score a deal like this. I hope I covered everything in this, doesn’t help I impulsively make a post this long at night so feel free to ask any questions and I would be more than happy to help anyone look for one!
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