How do you keep your finished lego in good nick?

[bluebeardswife7]

Ds saved up his Xmas money and bought the Daily Bugle. It is our most expensive lego by a long chalk. He finally finished it today and it looks amazing. But sooo vulnerable. I want to keep it safe (and hopefully keep some value) But I can already see the cats eyeing it up. I have seen a case available for £117, but too much!! Also, won't come for 3 weeks so 3 weeks of stress.

Kragle

I'm not sure it's a real thing. Also would kill resale value.

Is it a real thing??

I read on here —- Cling film. This is more for storage, but we cling filmed dcs unwanted models and put them in a box up the loft. Seems to have worked.

I would love to cling film it. But ds wants to display it in all its glory.

Ikea sell some clear plastic boxes which are ideal I think!

@Saisong nooooooooooo.
Never say that. Never. The Lego God's will get you.
@bluebeardswife7 keep out of sunlight - especially if the set has stickers. I dust with a little make up brush. But to be honest I don't display for long. I rotate my displays regularly (plus I like to rebuild and design my own stuff).
I know a lot of people have the IKEA display shelves with glass though.

I only want to spend minimum money. I feel like we bought a small expensive puppy without thinking about the forward costs

We have a glass cabinet from ikea as well.

Before we had it I used to gently shower the model and leave on a towel to dry every year when it got really dusty. 😂

I use these www.idisplayit.com

Maybe ask this guy, he's got £4k worth set up!

www.itv.com/news/border/2023-01-06/man-builds-lake-district-model-using-thousands-of-lego-pieces

We usually display for a month or so then dismantle and build something else.

You can also get air dusters (often advertised as keyboard cleaners) which are great for dusting lego sets.

Well my hubby made the vw van, was very proud of it. Oh we're going to put it in a case on display. Yes you guessed it, it's in the bedroom falling apart slowly because I'm a heavy handed duster😁, pieces fall off and a open the vans door and shove them in 😁

My husband has an obscene collection of star wars Lego, he has a soft paintbrush and dusts it once a month.

Have you seen the daily bugle? It's like an ood carrying its front brain in its hand. I am thinking of rehoming rhe cats to keep it safe. It is stupidly tall with loads of dangly bits.

Luckily I don't need to think about dusting it.

Yet. My first focus is keeping it safe from real life.

Have you considered participating in Taco Tuesday?

Clear acrylic display boxes
Here's an official Lego one but you can get just totally clear ones for about a tenner online.

www.johnlewis.com/lego-storage-play-display-case-blue/p5100159

😆

Lego stresses me out - I never know what to do with it!

Not a great picture but we put them on shelves around the games room. Keeps them built up and the kids love it. The larger ones are on stands and we have a few on the walls on special brackets and some in display cases.

we are hard core lego builders though 😆

It's lego, it's largely invincible.

If one of the cats do get it, then it falls off the shelf, bricks fly everywhere. You spend 18 days looking for them and refuse to hoover that room until you find EVERY. LAST. BRICK. And then you get to build it again, because Lego is awesome

The bricks are largely indestructible though (far more indestructible than feet, as many people have found out)

On the rare occasion that a piece does break, or get lost, you can get replacement pieces from

www.lego.com/en-gb/service/replacementparts/

Way cheaper than spending £117 on a case.

Besides, cats are fickle beings, they'll be onto the next new thing by next week.

And Kragle is actually just

Kra* Gle
Krazy Glue

The Lego movie's version of super glue, with a damaged packet with half the letters missing

Bloody mumsnet formatting turns * into bold

You get the gist