Storing and Displaying Military Collections:

Do kids have "army men" these days? I remember spending hours setting up my army men on one end of a dirt pile while the neighbor kid set his up on the other side of the pile.  Then it gets foggy, but it seems it involved shooting rubber bands at the other kid's army men.  I also remember making lots of various models of ships, planes, tanks, and what not.  Gets fuzzy again, but I seem to remember squirting modeling glue all over the models we were tired of and lighting them.  They burn into very satisfying little smoky puddles of molten plastic.  

Perhaps before we ponder displaying toys and such, a moment of serious reflection is appropriate.  Has someone in your family made the ultimate sacrifice?  Consider my Memorial Flag Display Case:

Army-men -whether cheap plastic from our childhoods, or hand painted antique Victorian tin-soldiers, deserve an appropriate home.  How about a Small Multi-Depth Drawer Case to hold the men and their equipment.

    For the larger or complex item, consider an architectural display case.  And it you collect related items, don't be bashful about taking a page from the women's side of things. Make a shadow box with a display case and -for example- your collection of  101st Airborne insignia etc.

Finally, for your best stuff, consider putting it in a display case -and if it is specially valuable or dangerous (!)--  I make a display case that locks too.

Interesting Links for Military Collectors:

Let me begin with Museum Spot, Whatever you collect, these is probably a museum dedicated to it.  And here is where to find Military Museums.

I don't want to know how he got it all, but Collect Russia has amazing stuff.

Or how about Scottish Military Historical Society?

Finally, for one scary  --but meticulously scholarly--  web site, check out an article on Military Medical Antiques at Medical Antiques.

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