Display Case - Help Needed!

[Winova]

The vessel at the wharf I would say is a Barquentine , the other might be
a topsail tern schooner.
I will check further,
Cheers Winova

 

[Winova]

The vessel at sea may be a square topsail tern schooner for
a better nomenclature as to its identity.
Cheers Winova

 

[TJCampbell]

I've run into the same problem. I build large models of great lakes ships - think about a 730ft real world length ship at 1/200 or 1/92 scale.... we are talking around 46" long model. I looked high and low for an acrylic case to protect/display my models in..... There is not a lot out there on the retail market, so I feel your frustration!

I ended up finding a local industrial supply business that sells sheets (4 ft x 8ft) and had them cut it into 12" long x 48" wide sections, and then I did the final trimming, etc. on my own, including the adhesive, and made the wood base as well. Cuts great with a table saw or even made blocks and used a circular saw. Also, the first time I built a case, I got lucky that this place had remnants for like $10.00 ea and had enough I just had to do a little trimming and glue them together, and I had a respectable case to use at home.

It's not perfect by any means ( as in not something I'd put in a museum ), but works fine for displaying at home and protecting my builds.

That being said, I am going to check into the 2 mentions above by Rick and and the one in Brampton, as I am in Windsor, Ontario

Figured I'd post a pic of what my home made display case looks like - this was built using remnant clear shatter proof acrylic (Lexan maybe?) from a local industrial supply store as noted in the quote above. This is quite thick, and I have got thinner sheets from the same supplier and just cut it on my table saw or blocked it and used a circular saw, using painters tape t protect and mark the area where my cut is.

 

[BugDoc]

Atrached is an image of the 5-sused acrylic case I had made fir my Flying Fish (see page 1 of this chain). I built the base from laminated pine and commercial 1/4 round molding.