The problem with the big planes is finding a display with enough depth so I set 28" or 70 cm as my depth. The area I had to use measured 85" or about 2.2 meters along tha wall. Vertically I ran floor to ceiling leaving room at the top for can lights. Since I am not a wood worker the doors for the front are being fabricated by a wood shop. The top will be closed with a crown moulding and and smaller scribe moulding will be used where the sides join the wall. This is a built in unit and cannot be removed it doesn't matter to me since we have already named our house "The Final Resting Place."
If you can make straight cuts with a table saw and cutoff saw you can build something like this. The ends, top and bottom are 3/4" oak plywood. The back is oak beadboard. The front is trimmed out with 1X 4 oak. The shelf brackets are routered into the ends with heavy duty metal clips holding the 3/8" glass shelving. The unit is stained with Minwax One step stain which is easy to use and leaves a nice satin polyurethene finish. So far I only have about $800 in materials and glass--the glass being the expensive stuff. The thin frame oak doors will run me about $300 plus glass for finishing the front.
Here it is:
I just hastily filled up the shelves with various sized planes to see how I might want to organize and use this new display. The Raise Up EAL 727 is the largest model I have as far as wingspan and length so everything else will fit nicely when I finally decide which models will finally inhabit the display.
Cheers,
Ladd
