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<>Displaying your collection always depends on the amount of room you have available. If you are lucky enough to have an entire room at your disposal then you do not have a problem. However, for the majority of collectors, space is limited because once upon a time your collecting habits would not have began quite so seriously. Therefore, your few miniatures would not have taken up more than a couple of shelves in a cabinet. However, as your collecting gets more serious and your collection increases you will no doubt need to expand your display area.

A standard glass front wall cabinet will probably hold about 100 minis on each shelf; the average unit will have three shelves so you have an area to display approximately 300 bottles. To create this display area you would need to add steps to the shelving.

These three tiers will actually give you four layers of display and are easily put together. The bottom shelf would be approx. 2"(51mm) x 6" (152mm), the second 2" (51mm) x 4" (102mm) and the top one 2" (51mm) x 2" (51mm). When stood on top of each other this will create a pretty study set of steps. This can be made from lightweight wood or other such substance as long as the surface top of each piece is smooth, cutting the lengths to suit your requirements.

Displaying minis this way enables you to see the labels on the bottles at the very back without having to reach for them. This would be the most widely used method of display.

If you do not actually have any display cabinets but have some wall space available then it is still possible to erect some single shelves. Although the rows would be singular, this can still be quite impressive.

Using 1 1/2" (38mm) width but only 1" (25mm) depth, the lengths would be cut to your requirements.

Because of the weight of the bottles in this instance wood would have to be used.

Drilling through the depth of wood and adjoining to a suitably prepared wall this display is widely used for display areas of one wall only, therefore maximising the space available.

The ‘Pièce de résistance’ if space allows is a room/garage conversion. Shelving can be placed accordingly to suit your collecting needs, for example, this is ideal if your collecting habits extend to ‘gowiths’. All ceilings and walls can be utilised.