I've been slowing collecting Hot Wheels Matchbox cars, mainly because I've always wanted to collect them, but also for my nephew to play with when he comes over. However I never had a decent place to display them, which is what you would do with something you collect, and the place that they were being 'displayed' was quickly running out of room! So I came up with this little display solution.
Here is what it looked like before
As you can see, it's not the best solution, and adding more cars is about to become very problematic.
My idea was to add 'shelves' to the edges of this shelf, which will allow the cars to sit, so all cars can be seen at all times, and easily accessed.. Then, to add a nice finishing touch, I would add some LED's, which would light up the display, and make selecting a car to play with (at least for my nephew) a little easier.
This is the concept that I came up with
At the time of making the concept, I thought I was going to hold the shelves up using right angled pieces, that you can see on the left of the second shelf from the bottom. However, as you'll see from the images below, I changed my mind on that.
Here are the progress photos of the build
Using the new mitre block to cut the pieces of timber for the back joints
Didn't plan well enough, only purchased enough timber for 3 shelves..
Decided to use 12mm x 12mm pine timber like pylons to hold up the 4 corners, glued to the edges of the cabinet.
The shelving was a perfectly tight fit, so no glue was to hold that in place, they're held in place by being sandwiched between the pylon-like pieces.
Now filled with all the cars!
This is how I'll add new cars that my nephew will race to open when he gets here.
And finally, with the LED spotlight! (plus the extra cars that I forgot I had)
All in all, I'm very happy with how this turned out. I should have actually planed it out better so I bought enough timber to do all the shelves, but luckily I have bought just enough to handle the cars that I currently have, so I can easily add extra shelves when needed.
Here is what it looked like before
My idea was to add 'shelves' to the edges of this shelf, which will allow the cars to sit, so all cars can be seen at all times, and easily accessed.. Then, to add a nice finishing touch, I would add some LED's, which would light up the display, and make selecting a car to play with (at least for my nephew) a little easier.
This is the concept that I came up with
Here are the progress photos of the build
Using the new mitre block to cut the pieces of timber for the back joints
Didn't plan well enough, only purchased enough timber for 3 shelves..
Used staples to join the 3 pieces of a shelf together
Decided to use 12mm x 12mm pine timber like pylons to hold up the 4 corners, glued to the edges of the cabinet.
The shelving was a perfectly tight fit, so no glue was to hold that in place, they're held in place by being sandwiched between the pylon-like pieces.
Now filled with all the cars!
This is how I'll add new cars that my nephew will race to open when he gets here.
And finally, with the LED spotlight! (plus the extra cars that I forgot I had)
All in all, I'm very happy with how this turned out. I should have actually planed it out better so I bought enough timber to do all the shelves, but luckily I have bought just enough to handle the cars that I currently have, so I can easily add extra shelves when needed.
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