InArt - The Batman 1/6th Figure

[Hoody999]

Looks great. Moducase shelves?

Nope, just black melamine coated boards cut at the hardware store to my desired length, screwed together and with black backing sheets nailed on IKEA style to add rigidity. LED lighting in aluminium profiles with opaque diffusers.

As inexpensive as it can get.

 

[GaryPool]

I recommend to have one figure in your main room that you're always in for a more curated and museum style look, have the rest of the collection in a different room so they don't have to clutter your vision of greatness.

Then move the rest of the furniture from the curated room into the storage room, then proceed to spend all of your time in the storage room. Your curated main display room will be incredible without the clutter.



... I have just described a literal museum.

 

[choombaz]

I’m looking at moving away from Detolfs for similar reasons above but cannot afford Moducase. I can’t find it atm but I watched a great video the other which showed a fantastic display similarish to Moducase but much more affordable. If I find it I will load it up here.

Edit: found it.

 

[lordnastrond]

Okay now you've all got me paranoid wondering whether my collection looks decent or not
So I may as well ask what you think.

My collection slowly started to take over the living room, so I've now had my collection banished to a single (not that large) room (for the moment.... we will return to reclaim what is ours).
Given the relative lack of space I do what I can and hope it looks good - people always seem impressed when they take the tour.... but I myself wish I had a little more room to spread out and I need to finally figure out a lighting situation (any recommendations?)
I always try to put characters together that make sense or have some sort of common theme, franchise etc.
I have recently lost a couple of cabinets through a series of events I'd rather not get into and started to space my figures among my bookcases (where the themes/books make sense)
So what's your verdict?
Apologies for the pictures inbound both the amount and quality - my camera leaves a lot to be desired and I lack the natural photography skills to compensate.

This is the comic book half of the room - the bookcase and the cabinet next to it are dedicated to Batman, the central cabinet is Marvel characters, the cabinet on the left is an assortment of comic book characters. On top of these detolfs I have my Spiderman villains collection (I now need a Spiderman to go with them)

BookCase shelves: Eaglemoss Batman animated series and Arkham series figurines - I enjoy having something to represent these versions of the characters.
Bookcase top: Prime 1/Blitzway Phoenix Joker deluxe

Cabinet on the right:
Bottom shelf: My Toys Era Humorist and Bullet Head Mentally Ill diorama shelf.
Third shelf: Sideshow Classic Harley, HT Arkham Joker and Mondo Harley Quinn 'Waiting for Mistah J' statue.

Second shelf: My Burtonverse Characters - 1/4 NECA Catwoman and Mayoral Penguin, to accomodate for their height I have the figures on the top shelf standing on an acrylic half-shelf: allowing the Penguin and Catwoman to stand above where the shelf should be.
Top Shelf: HT 1989 Joker, Mime Joker and HT Returns Keaton

Middle Cabinet:
Bottom shelf: My Xmen Shelf - Toys Era 'The Tank' holding a HT Deadpool (who seems to be very happy with being carried like a princess) + Figuremasters Xavier and Magneto - to accomodate Juggernauts enormous height I have placed the shelf above on adjustable detolf pegs/clamps to make the bottom shelf a custom height.
Middle Shelf: HT Thanos, Nebula, Gamora and Yondu - once again to compensate for Thanos' height I used adjustable detolf shelf pegs/clamps.

Top shelf: HT Winter Soldier, Endgame Captain America, Avengers Iron-Man, Infinity War Thor, Dr Strange (solo movie) - having made adjustments for the bottom 2 shelves due to the height of their figures I had now lost a shelf in this cabinet and had a strange amount of space on this shelf using the adjustable pegs. So I used this plus another acrylic half shelf to display more figures and allowing me to pose my Iron Man in mid-flight the difference in height and by putting the 2 figures in the back in the spaces between the 3 at the front I feel (and hope) it shows them all off equally with none of them looking lost or overcrowded. Admittedly my photo here is pretty poor at conveying this as I seem to have held the phone at a lower angle.

Cabinet on the left: dedicated to sort of spill-over from the other 2 cabinets.
Bottom shelf: HT Zod and Art Figure's 'Master of Ocean'
Third shelf: HT Loki and Hela, Soosootoys Classic Trickster

Second Shelf: My Nolanverse villains - HT DX11 Joker 2.0, HT Two-Face, a 1/6 Cillian Murphy Scarecrow HT knockoff I got from ebay
Top shelf: My Justice League/Trinity shelf - HT BVS Batman and Superman, HT JL Wonder-Woman, Eaglemoss justice League figures (I wish I had more room on the comic bookcase for these tbh - does it cheapen the shelf?)

Top of the detolfs: My Spidey Villains - Jazzinc Vulture, Toys Era The Fiend (deluxe) and The Ock, HT Mysterio - hoping to eventually pick up a Spiderman, and that Lizard 3rd party.... not really interested in Elecktro or Venom.


Thoughts so far?

 

[vaanrose]

I’m looking at moving away from Detolfs for similar reasons above but cannot afford Moducase. I can’t find it atm but I watched a great video the other which showed a fantastic display similarish to Moducase but much more affordable. If I find it I will load it up here.

Edit: found it.

This is almost exactly what I built last year. Cheap garage shelving, acrylic sheets, matte shelf liners and some LED light strips. I think I spent about $175 per unit, all put together. Although I went with 3 shelves per unit instead of 4 like this guy did, it accommodates taller figures and gives the regular ones more headroom, which I think it more visually pleasing.

In my opinion, people underestimate the degree to which negative space around a figure affects the aesthetic; it's not just about how much space there is between any two figures, it's also about how much space there is between the figure and sides of the shelf it's sitting on. Detolfs have always felt very claustrophobic to me once you add even a second figure to a shelf, for that reason.

 

[thedarkknight]

Okay now you've all got me paranoid wondering whether my collection looks decent or not
So I may as well ask what you think.

My collection slowly started to take over the living room, so I've now had my collection banished to a single (not that large) room (for the moment.... we will return to reclaim what is ours).
Given the relative lack of space I do what I can and hope it looks good - people always seem impressed when they take the tour.... but I myself wish I had a little more room to spread out and I need to finally figure out a lighting situation (any recommendations?)
I always try to put characters together that make sense or have some sort of common theme, franchise etc.
I have recently lost a couple of cabinets through a series of events I'd rather not get into and started to space my figures among my bookcases (where the themes/books make sense)
So what's your verdict?
Apologies for the pictures inbound both the amount and quality - my camera leaves a lot to be desired and I lack the natural photography skills to compensate.

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This is the comic book half of the room - the bookcase and the cabinet next to it are dedicated to Batman, the central cabinet is Marvel characters, the cabinet on the left is an assortment of comic book characters. On top of these detolfs I have my Spiderman villains collection (I now need a Spiderman to go with them)

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BookCase shelves: Eaglemoss Batman animated series and Arkham series figurines - I enjoy having something to represent these versions of the characters.
Bookcase top: Prime 1/Blitzway Phoenix Joker deluxe

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Cabinet on the right:
Bottom shelf: My Toys Era Humorist and Bullet Head Mentally Ill diorama shelf.
Third shelf: Sideshow Classic Harley, HT Arkham Joker and Mondo Harley Quinn 'Waiting for Mistah J' statue.

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Second shelf: My Burtonverse Characters - 1/4 NECA Catwoman and Mayoral Penguin, to accomodate for their height I have the figures on the top shelf standing on an acrylic half-shelf: allowing the Penguin and Catwoman to stand above where the shelf should be.
Top Shelf: HT 1989 Joker, Mime Joker and HT Returns Keaton

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Middle Cabinet:
Bottom shelf: My Xmen Shelf - Toys Era 'The Tank' holding a HT Deadpool (who seems to be very happy with being carried like a princess) + Figuremasters Xavier and Magneto - to accomodate Juggernauts enormous height I have placed the shelf above on adjustable detolf pegs/clamps to make the bottom shelf a custom height.
Middle Shelf: HT Thanos, Nebula, Gamora and Yondu - once again to compensate for Thanos' height I used adjustable detolf shelf pegs/clamps.

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Top shelf: HT Winter Soldier, Endgame Captain America, Avengers Iron-Man, Infinity War Thor, Dr Strange (solo movie) - having made adjustments for the bottom 2 shelves due to the height of their figures I had now lost a shelf in this cabinet and had a strange amount of space on this shelf using the adjustable pegs. So I used this plus another acrylic half shelf to display more figures and allowing me to pose my Iron Man in mid-flight the difference in height and by putting the 2 figures in the back in the spaces between the 3 at the front I feel (and hope) it shows them all off equally with none of them looking lost or overcrowded. Admittedly my photo here is pretty poor at conveying this as I seem to have held the phone at a lower angle.

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Cabinet on the left: dedicated to sort of spill-over from the other 2 cabinets.
Bottom shelf: HT Zod and Art Figure's 'Master of Ocean'
Third shelf: HT Loki and Hela, Soosootoys Classic Trickster

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Second Shelf: My Nolanverse villains - HT DX11 Joker 2.0, HT Two-Face, a 1/6 Cillian Murphy Scarecrow HT knockoff I got from ebay
Top shelf: My Justice League/Trinity shelf - HT BVS Batman and Superman, HT JL Wonder-Woman, Eaglemoss justice League figures (I wish I had more room on the comic bookcase for these tbh - does it cheapen the shelf?)

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Top of the detolfs: My Spidey Villains - Jazzinc Vulture, Toys Era The Fiend (deluxe) and The Ock, HT Mysterio - hoping to eventually pick up a Spiderman, and that Lizard 3rd party.... not really interested in Elecktro or Venom.


Thoughts so far?

I think it looks good, but it doesn't matter what I or anyone else thinks. If you are happy with it, that's what's important.

If you let the people on these forums rip your display apart the way they do the figures, it'll drive you crazy.

 

[choombaz]

Yeah if you are happy about it don’t worry about what any of us say! I’m never happy with mine and constantly fiddling and changing. When I saw that video I was like yes that’s what I want to do. This is the only part of my collection that is remotely presentable and I would show at the moment lol. I had started to put lights in the Detolfs with the Marvel figures but I’ve abandoned that now in favour of hardware shelving. My figures used to be really crammed and I just keep working away with it until I’m happy. But yes agree with the comments about how claustrophobic Detolfs can be, light plays a big role as well though. No lights in these cabinets and you can barely see anything. I think raising shelving can help generally as well, I always feel sorry for the figures at the bottom. My dream would be to have something like that Ken Adam James Bond lair one.

 

[lordnastrond]

This is the fantasty - LOTR, GOT, HP side of the room

I have a lot more statues and texts in this theme so I decided (especially when several cabinets were destroyed) to intersperse my figures among texts and statues somewhat irregularly to achieve a different effect from the cabinet dominated space of the rest of the room.

On top of the bookcase on the left: Weta Barad-Dur, Witch King and a collection of LOTR sword replicas I found at a market YEARS ago.

Bookcase top-shelf: Asmus Thorin, Young Bilbo, Frodo and Gimli

Left Bookcase Middle-Shelf - Threezero Joffrey, season 1 Jaime (with season 7 Jaime head and gold hand), season 7 Tyrion (and map pieces) with Joffrey crossbow, Xensation Tuwin head on season 7 Jaime armoured body

Left bookcase bottom-shelf: HT Newt Scamander and Gellert Grindelwald

Top of right bookcase - large LOTR statues - Weta Sauron and Balrog (Demon of Flame) and Sideshow Premium Format Saruman, Weta 1/4 helmets of Sauron and Witch King

Top shelf: Replica of the shards of Narsil, Weta Minas Tirith keepsake box, Weta Gollum
Second Shelf: Weta Smaug the Terrible, Asmus Gandalf the Grey
Third Shelf: Eaglemoss LOTR mini figureines - Witch King on Fellbeast, Mumakill, Cave troll

Fourth shelf - Asmus Elven Warrior, Galdriel, Legolas, Theoden, Twilight Witch King, Mouth of Sauron
Bottom shelf: Weta 1/4 Theoden Helmet, eaglemoss Argonath and Minas Morgul statue.

 

[choombaz]

This is the fantasty - LOTR, GOT, HP side of the room

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I have a lot more statues and texts in this theme so I decided (especially when several cabinets were destroyed) to intersperse my figures among texts and statues somewhat irregularly to achieve a different effect from the cabinet dominated space of the rest of the room.

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On top of the bookcase on the left: Weta Barad-Dur, Witch King and a collection of LOTR sword replicas I found at a market YEARS ago.

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Bookcase top-shelf: Asmus Thorin, Young Bilbo, Frodo and Gimli

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Left Bookcase Middle-Shelf - Threezero Joffrey, season 1 Jaime (with season 7 Jaime head and gold hand), season 7 Tyrion (and map pieces) with Joffrey crossbow, Xensation Tuwin head on season 7 Jaime armoured body

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Left bookcase bottom-shelf: HT Newt Scamander and Gellert Grindelwald

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Top of right bookcase - large LOTR statues - Weta Sauron and Balrog (Demon of Flame) and Sideshow Premium Format Saruman, Weta 1/4 helmets of Sauron and Witch King

Top shelf: Replica of the shards of Narsil, Weta Minas Tirith keepsake box, Weta Gollum
Second Shelf: Weta Smaug the Terrible, Asmus Gandalf the Grey
Third Shelf: Eaglemoss LOTR mini figureines - Witch King on Fellbeast, Mumakill, Cave troll

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Fourth shelf - Asmus Elven Warrior, Galdriel, Legolas, Theoden, Twilight Witch King, Mouth of Sauron
Bottom shelf: Weta 1/4 Theoden Helmet, eaglemoss Argonath and Minas Morgul statue.

Nice. Your collection has a very Minas Tirith/Citadel kind of vibe so it all makes sense.

 

[user 67922]

Detolfs only look cramped if you make them look cramped. If that makes sense? Lordnastrond above has them looking perfect. 2-3 figures max with a stand.

I personally don't display my figures with stands in my Detolfs as I like to use them for mini-dioramas or re-creating scenes. I find the figures stand very well on their own. I also have Moducases, and I have to say I prefer the Detolfs as the figures can look a bit sterile in the big fish tank like Moducases. Detolfs get a bad rap sometimes, I think the 360 degree glass makes the figures look very classy. When they're overcrowded with figures they look terrible.

 

[lordnastrond]

And the section of my room I've affectionately dubbed "the rest" - mostly a mix of properties and themes that don't tie into the other two major sections of the room - I have a cabinet for horror related characters, one for sci-fi-esque characters, a cabinet that divides them that is dedicated to characters that dont fit with the rest any others and a section on top of my last bookcase for more historical/mythological characters.

My TBLeague Egyptian Gods section on top of the corner bookcase - RA (Golden version), Sobek (White version), Anubis (original)

They share a space with my Hot Toys Indiana Jones and I quite like how they look together and I feel like there is somewhat of a connected theme between them - ancient history, mythology. etc.

I Keep my Indy in an old scientific barometer glass box and I blue tacked the map of his journey for the Ark onto the back glass plate, I have also included with both his original accessories like the Idol and plinth, staff of ra etc but also other accessories I've picked up over the years like a 1/6 Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail (which he is holding), the Grail tablet, a 1/6 replica of his fathers grail diary and all its inserts, sankara stones....

On the right is my horror cabinet

On the bottom shelf is my HT Hellboy and Thunder Toys Keanu movie Constantine (deluxe) - I liek them together as comic-based occult detective characters.

Above that is my vampire shelf - which includes a Star Ace Markus statue and Viktor figure from Underworld, Redman Toys Dracula Red, Sideshow Buffy Master, Figuremasters Louis and HT Blade - the Markus and Dracula are on acrylic stands to lift them up. Hoping to catch a Lugosi figure in his coffin and lay him down in front of them all. Also hoping to use fishing wire to hang a David from the Lost Boys figure above them all when I get hold of one - but I need to think about it more.

My Horror Icons shelf - I used the adjustable pegs/clamps for this section in order to give these figures enough froom to display Pennywise on his stand with balloon on an acrylic stand to make sure he is entirely visable - I also gave the vampires far more room below this way.
Blitzway Hannibal, Trick or Treat Studios Michael Myers, Sideshow Freddy, Threezero Hellraiser.

Middle Cabinet Top Shelf: Pirates of the Carribean HT - Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones

Middle Cabinet middle shelf - Breaking Bad - Mars Toys Walter and CGL Toys Jesse - Intend to get the Mars Toys Fring and a Saul, maybe a Mike

Middle cabinet - 3rd shelf - Immortan Joe

Middle Cabinet - bottom shelf - Mondo Rick & Morty deluxe set and Vinyl box set

Right cabinet top shelf - NECA Alien Queen deluxe, HT Alien Ripley and HT Wolf Predator 2.0

Right cabinet second shelf - HT Battle Damaged T2 Terminator

Right cabinet third shelf - HT Mandalorian and Child deluxe set

Right cabinet bottom shelf - Assassins Creed - DAMTOYS Altair and Ezio.

I like my collections and wish I had some more room, a bit of lighting and some nicer shelves for them - but I like to think given my lack of space and funds that I haven't done too bad!

 

[lordnastrond]

Detolfs only look cramped if you make them look cramped. If that makes sense? Lordnastrond above has them looking perfect. 2-3 figures max with a stand.

I personally don't display my figures with stands in my Detolfs as I like to use them for mini-dioramas or re-creating scenes. I find the figures stand very well on their own. I also have Moducases, and I have to say I prefer the Detolfs as the figures can look a bit sterile in the big fish tank like Moducases. Detolfs get a bad rap sometimes, I think the 360 degree glass makes the figures look very classy. When they're overcrowded with figures they look terrible.

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I absolutely LOVE this.
I completely agree as well - detolfs can look really really nice if you utilize them well - for diorama scenes like what you have here they are perfect. These poses and scenes you've recreated are incredible. You must be very happy with them!

 

[jye4ever]

Allow me to explain my level of OCD are you guys ready lol

Collectors have benefited from my OCD.

I treat Marvel Legends the same as I would a Prime 1 or JND.

My biggest pet peeve here it goes.

I watch video after video after video on YouTube of collectors opening their dirty brown shipping box that was in a dirty boat or plane container then dirty warehouse then dirty delivery truck and without washing their hands open the dirty brown shipper and immediately touch their super expensive item!!!

They’ll even have the dirty brown shipper on their parts and posing table!

Grrr

I wear gloves whenever unboxing anyways and I still wash my hands after being done with the dirty shipper and never handle the item with dirty hands EVER!

From the second I first touch the item and for the life of the item my hand is clean at all times when handling them!

I don’t smoke I don’t eat in my collection room I don’t have pets no dirty brown shippers are even allowed in the collection room I’m always baffled watching people handling their expensive items with dirty hands!

Not me.

Hygiene is a very crucial part of my collecting habi…routine!

I work way too hard and these items are all super expensive to not be OCD but I even treat the ML/BS the same way lol

 

[Wor-Gar]

OK, Bubble Boy

 

[The Green Goblin]

gotta have clean hands. I'm not washing my dollies clothes cuz I got cheetos dust on them.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Think how dirty that dollie is from the factory worker who set him into the box.

Monkeypox anyone?

 

[jye4ever]

Think how dirty that dollie is from the factory worker who set him into the box.

Monkeypox anyone?

And I’m ok with that because I will dust the item after I open it lol

But i’m certainly not going to add more dirt to it from what’s already on the item from the factory.

 

[Wor-Gar]

 

[Gipetto0812]

Allow me to explain my level of OCD are you guys ready lol

Collectors have benefited from my OCD.

I treat Marvel Legends the same as I would a Prime 1 or JND.

My biggest pet peeve here it goes.

I watch video after video after video on YouTube of collectors opening their dirty brown shipping box that was in a dirty boat or plane container then dirty warehouse then dirty delivery truck and without washing their hands open the dirty brown shipper and immediately touch their super expensive item!!!

They’ll even have the dirty brown shipper on their parts and posing table!

Grrr

I wear gloves whenever unboxing anyways and I still wash my hands after being done with the dirty shipper and never handle the item with dirty hands EVER!

From the second I first touch the item and for the life of the item my hand is clean at all times when handling them!

I don’t smoke I don’t eat in my collection room I don’t have pets no dirty brown shippers are even allowed in the collection room I’m always baffled watching people handling their expensive items with dirty hands!

Not me.

Hygiene is a very crucial part of my collecting habi…routine!

I work way too hard and these items are all super expensive to not be OCD but I even treat the ML/BS the same way lol

While I don't wear gloves while handling mine, I will wash my hands after opening the brown shipper. Then again after using my hobby knife to cut tape, etc. And I'll wash my hands before grabbing my figures out of the display case.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Do you wash your hands BEFORE going number one? And after?