DIY Lego Minifigure Display Case

DIY Lego Minifigure Display Case

Making custom display case for a friend that collects minifigures.br br A perfect excuse to use the wood shaper I restored last week!br br Stuff I used:br Mahogany wood for the frame 60x10mm in section and 1.5m long to make one case. br 2mm thick plexiglass for the frontbr 3mm thick white opaque plexiglass for the back br br The other one you see at the end that I made off camera has a pine (fir) frame and I added a strip of white led just behind the back white plexiglass to make it light up. Doesn't show well in camera but looks nice in real (to me at least!).br br List of operation:br 0:06 Marking cut with marking knifebr 0:16 Cutting on band sawbr 0:40 sanding 45° on the belt sander br 1:23 Cutting groove for the 2mm front clear plexiglassbr 1:43 Cutting slot for the back piecebr 2:37 Hand sanding up to 320 gritbr 3:12 Boiled linseed oil as finishbr 3:40 Scoring the plexiglass to size with utility bladebr 4:03 "Cutting" by bending on the line with a couple of straight pieces of wood (works great)br 4:31 Glueing with pvabr 5:10 Very useful band clamp for square stuffbr 5:25 Cleaning up edges by rasping and sanding with wax (wax and sawdust fill small gaps once cured)br 6:24 Dividing back plexiglass (odd number to fit the minifigure set)br 7:03 Marking drill location with soldering ironbr 7:18 Drilling holes larger than screwbr 7:48 Marking hole center and drilling with bit smaller than screwbr 8:20 Painting bricks with gray primerbr 8:40 Assembling back plexiglass and bricks with screwbr 9:30 Tiny screw to hold back plexiglass in placebr br br Thanks a lot for watching, I hope you liked the video!br Suggestions and comments are welcome.


User: Crazy Vİdeos

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Uploaded: 2019-01-18

Duration: 11:04

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