How do you display your LEGO?

[DougleGo]

Hi everyone so I'm new to the forums and new to LEGO (as a serious collector) and I'm sorry if this has been covered but I have searched and can't find what I'm looking for. Hopefully this is in the right place!!

So I have a few Star Wars sets and some City sets my boy plays with. Some of these sets include helicopters/space ships etc that should fly. So I was wondering how everyone displays their flying builds? Any pics/descriptions/instructions would be great to see

[AmperZand]

I seem to recall that this topic has been dealt with before, certainly in relation to large flying objects such as SW ships. Even if it hasn't, you may want to specify in the title of the thread that you mean flying objects/creatures. When I saw the thread's title, I thought you meant what kind of display units.

To answer your question though, I mostly collect minifigures and creatures. I display flying creatures in one of three ways:

1. The simplest method I use is simply to put them on the ground, i.e. not airbourne. If that bothers you, you may want to consider putting them on glass shelves. If you put grounded LEGO on opaque shelves and flying ones on glass shelves above them, you can create the illusion of flight. Ikea does shelf units that can take both wood and glass shelves.
   
2. Use transparent LEGO parts to hold your creations aloft (see picture of my hawk-man below)
   
3. Use thread to suspend your LEGO or wire to hold it out. I have a MOC giant bat and the LotR eagle hung using thread and a MOC dragon-man held out using paperclip wire.
   

Hope that helps.

[dr_spock]

Mine are on a shelf. I don't really want to put holes in my ceiling. I had to pay extra for smooth ceilings instead of that stucco stuff when the house was built.

When I used to live in an apartment, I suspended my Star Trek models from the ceiling. Be sure they are high enough that you and/or your tall friends don't knock them down with heads or other body parts.

[Breakdown]

I realize it's not lego, but some of the very same applies, this is my collection

The great part is that there's so much third party art available.

One of my plans with lego is to get some big prints done (I found a place that's local with great quality and just as good pricing), take some pics, maybe even purposely have them out of focus of sets and put them in the background of other sets. Might be easier to show an example rather than talk about it.

Glass cases are great for dust avoidance. I have a lot more smaller art with the individual robots elsewhere in the room. It's all in what you intend on doing.

I'm giving the case for individual sets, etc. Ping pong and other tables for larger layouts, etc. Not all of us have the luxury of a lot of space.

[DougleGo]

One of my plans with lego is to get some big prints done (I found a place that's local with great quality and just as good pricing), take some pics, maybe even purposely have them out of focus of sets and put them in the background of other sets. Might be easier to show an example rather than talk about it.

I know what you mean that's a great idea. To give the display a bit of depth? Very cool idea.

I seem to recall that this topic has been dealt with before, certainly in relation to large flying objects such as SW ships. Even if it hasn't, you may want to specify in the title of the thread that you mean flying objects/creatures. When I saw the thread's title, I thought you meant what kind of display units.

Sorry yeah I should have said in the original post though I am interested in the flying sets I'm also open to seeing any other display cabinets/cases anything you guys have!! It kinda inspire me a little

[Breakdown]

I know what you mean that's a great idea. To give the display a bit of depth? Very cool idea.

Pretty much. More or less stealing from the old pics where they'd have a silhouette in the background on the box or front of the instructions, taking that a step further ahead.

With the Transformers, I love the fan art. The original robots were unable to capture some of the cool poses of the actual cartoon and comics, where the fan art enhances them. Lego . . . not so much. I want lego to look like lego.

If I did a real streetscape, inspired by something real, I'd love to have the real thing in the background. Since I don't and there isn't. I'm thinking creative shots of the lego. The whole deal with fantastic lego creations is the art (lego) imitating life. And then you look to the horizon, life doesn't just end, there's a field, forest, hill or even urban sprawl that continues as far as the eye can see.