Rotating Pirate Lego Display: In Progress Report

[The Reader]

I love your display and how you build your MOCs to give your pirate sets some background. Your style is perfectly classic. Lagoon Lock-up side by side to Eldorado Fortress looks great as does your town of Eldorado! (I wish I had a similar possibility to display some sets.)

Just out of curiosity: How do you fight dust?

[SBCMayor]

14 hours ago, The Reader said:

I love your display and how you build your MOCs to give your pirate sets some background. Your style is perfectly classic. Lagoon Lock-up side by side to Eldorado Fortress looks great as does your town of Eldorado! (I wish I had a similar possibility to display some sets.)

Just out of curiosity: How do you fight dust?

Thank you! That classic look is what I am really going for. I do have a few newer minifigures as residents of the town, but that's ok. I feel really fortunate to have a space in my home for this kind of thing. When I bought this house last summer, as I was moving in I had this thought and a couple months later embarked on my adventure collecting these vintage sets! It really has been a lot of fun. 

You are right, Lagoon Lockup and Eldorado look great side by side. I love the way they look when combined into a single fort. Add in a Sabre Island or two and you've got a real stronghold. I think this is one of the biggest advantages to the first wave over the second wave imperial sets. They really did have more potential to complement each other whereas it's harder to add to the ITP with any of the smaller imperial sets like Cannon Cove. It's obviously doable, but I don't like the look as much as with the bluecoat sets. Thankfully the color scheme is close enough in both waves that you can just swap out the flags on Lagoon Lockup and Sabre Island and you've got a pretty nice redcoat stronghold too! 

As for dust, it is a never ending battle! Vacuum the room regularly, and for the display itself, since I'm going for classic look, all the surfaces have studs. So I've used stuff like this compressed air duster. I think most people use these for computer keyboards/laptops, etc. It's good for Legos, but the trick is to blow the dust to the edge of the display, not just unsettle it and then let it settle back into place. That's tricky because the dust doesn't always cooperate, but overall this helps me keep the display relatively clean.