Hey, that’s my collection!
Awesome! I found your pics a few years ago and saved them as an example of how nice Billy shelves can be. You still using them in the same way?
@panthercult I recently replaced all my old Ikea shelving with the glass door Billys and I love them. I didn't do the double-wide ones because I don't like my shelves sagging over time and I like the more modular nature of the single-wide ones (can rearrange my rooms with more options), but I love the glass door element add in. A note, you can also mostly dust seal them with a little rubber stripping. I have the black Billys and a smidge of rubber stripping has kept them dust free for months now. Super clean look.
A bonus, the glass doors also come with wood inserts that are dual colored on front and back. Since I've got access to an oversized lasercutter at the makerspace I help run, I'm thinking of burning in some designs to those panels and using them on the shelves that I store books and blu-rays in.
Do you happen to have any pictures of your set up?
I love the way the Billys look, but I don't like having to place figures around the gap where the doors meet.
Hey, that’s my collection!
Awesome! I found your pics a few years ago and saved them as an example of how nice Billy shelves can be. You still using them in the same way?
Yeah, they’re still there. I’ll be moving in a month or so, so I’ll have to figure out how best to set them up in the new place. It’s going to be a lot of work, but I made sure all the lights were removable when I wired them in.
@panthercult I recently replaced all my old Ikea shelving with the glass door Billys and I love them. I didn't do the double-wide ones because I don't like my shelves sagging over time and I like the more modular nature of the single-wide ones (can rearrange my rooms with more options), but I love the glass door element add in. A note, you can also mostly dust seal them with a little rubber stripping. I have the black Billys and a smidge of rubber stripping has kept them dust free for months now. Super clean look.
A bonus, the glass doors also come with wood inserts that are dual colored on front and back. Since I've got access to an oversized lasercutter at the makerspace I help run, I'm thinking of burning in some designs to those panels and using them on the shelves that I store books and blu-rays in.
Do you happen to have any pictures of your set up?
I love the way the Billys look, but I don't like having to place figures around the gap where the doors meet.
They don’t make the type of doors I have here anymore. The new style has even thinner borders, and since you can view the shelves from different angles, the gap isn’t really that noticeable. A fully glass display would offer more visibility, but I prefer having the shelves discreet. I find it looks more crowded when you can see the displays above or below at the same time.
They don’t make the type of doors I have here anymore. The new style has even thinner borders, and since you can view the shelves from different angles, the gap isn’t really that noticeable. A fully glass display would offer more visibility, but I prefer having the shelves discreet. I find it looks more crowded when you can see the displays above or below at the same time.
My jewelry display cases have glass shelves and I agree--solid shelves are better for display. Many photos I take have the figures on the shelf below or above creeping into the shot, and it's quite distracting. I would further suggest that black shelves are best for action figure display. Comic book panel borders are usually black, so the shelves parallel comic panel borders quite nicely.
I believe you have the Ikea Morlun glass doors, and the new type is called Hogbo:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hoegbo-glass-door-white-20517243/
@tsi Not offhand but I'll try to snap some and share them later today. I moved recently so I don't have my figure displays all in place, but I can give you an idea.
@tsi I will say, though snug, you *can* fit a haslab sentinel entirely inside the shorter single-wide Billy with the shelves removed. I don't think that's how I'm going to display mine for now... but it is possible.
@tsi I will say, though snug, you *can* fit a haslab sentinel entirely inside the shorter single-wide Billy with the shelves removed. I don't think that's how I'm going to display mine for now... but it is possible.
Is the middle shelf fixed in place in the single-wide Billy? It is with most bookshelves, and I vaguely recall the full-width Billy having a fixed middle shelf with the rest being adjustable (aside from the top of the shelf and the bottom shelf which are fixed for obvious reasons).
Assuming the middle shelf is fixed you should be able to fit at least one shelf above or below a Sentinel. Here's a Reddit post from someone who did exactly that. With the middle shelf being fixed this person put their Sentinels in the top half, and then put one shelf above them. Looks to me as if there would also be room for Galactus with this setup, although it might be a few inches short of that unless you spread out his legs or bend his knees a bit, or assuming the setup below move the top shelf one notch higher which would likely prevent BAF-sized figures from fitting on that shelf.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelLegends/comments/qhcsnl/added_some_shelves_to_the_room_and_devoted_a/
Wish we hadn't gone on this display tangent in this thread. Anyone seen a similar post in any of the forums? I mostly only read the Marvel forum, but room design is a topic of interest to pretty much everyone who collects any type of physical object intended for display.
@enigmaticclarity So I have the short single-wides, they're about 42" tall, 11" deep and 16" wide roughly (external dimensions) and none of their shelves are fixed in place. This is the one I've got for ref: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/billy-bookcase-white-80263832/
I think all the taller Billy's (single and double wides) have a fixed middle shelf just for stability but I retired all my taller bookshelves because I didn't want anything I couldn't easily move by myself on a standard moving dolly.
I would further suggest that black shelves are best for action figure display. Comic book panel borders are usually black, so the shelves parallel comic panel borders quite nicely.
Gotta disagree on this - at least, for non-enclosed shelves. Black shelves show dust SO fast. I've very much come to appreciate light oak shelves, or gray shelves, or white with some gradiant to disguise the dust.
I would further suggest that black shelves are best for action figure display. Comic book panel borders are usually black, so the shelves parallel comic panel borders quite nicely.
Gotta disagree on this - at least, for non-enclosed shelves. Black shelves show dust SO fast. I've very much come to appreciate light oak shelves, or gray shelves, or white with some gradiant to disguise the dust.
Hard disagree for me too. Dust issue aside, the figures pop so much better against the white background. That's especially important if you don't have lights. I feel like dark shelves and no lights is just a depressing look.
Yeah, my basement is all white (well, blue floor) with white shelves so the figures really stand out.
@justice I think it depends greatly on how you intend to display stuff. I'm working on diorama pieces, like oversized book-nook kind of scenes with backgrounds and such. In that scenario I think the black ones I've got will be less intrusive to the scene. If you're going for more figures in space or in the sort of graduation photo setup, the white is probably better.
Lighting is definitely preferred for an all-black setup, but in that context the way you can use light to spotlight figure is potentially more dramatic. All in your preferences I think.
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