TonyW Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) I'm a fan of the old cardboard Dealer Displays hobby stores used to have in their windows. Being in the UK means they are a bit hard to find though. My solution was to build my own. Here's a few of them... ... the models are all restored originals. The displays were done in Photoshop and printed and mounted at home. I used catalog and boxtop images to build what I thought the displays might have looked like. When I built these there was very little info out there. Finding Dean Milano's Museum site was a huge help and the Monogram books now in print made life a whole lot easier as well. The Little T model was built by a very talented modeler, Harley Richards, and once combined with this display base made its first appearance on Daves Show Rod site many years ago. Where have all the years gone? Here's the page it appeared on... http://www.showrods.com/gallery_pages/little_t1.html Digging these displays out of storage has been a very enjoyable trip down Memory Lane. Edited March 16, 2017 by TonyW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Great idea Tony! Ive always liked the dealer displays and the thought of scratch building them is brilliant. It makes for a wonderul collection. Thanks for sharing your work.Cheers Misha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBorg Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Cohen Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Those are great! Just yesterday a friend and I were talking about making some. I have known Harley for a while, very good builder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Macleod Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 That is an excellent idea and would be a great use of less-than-perfect original boxes. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRod Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Wow, very cool!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mredjr Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Great idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Againmikewins Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 These are very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disabled modeler Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Tony.... Those are awesome..! I am a fan of the old box arts/boxes...there great just to look at on a bad day and smile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintagercr Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Excellent idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfan Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Really good idea and good execution as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Pugh Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 That's way too cool!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisR Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 NEAT!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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