My son got a ton of Lego minifigs for Christmas from relatives, so I designed and built this little shelf to hold (many of) them that he can put on display in his room.
The pieces fit together with little tabs on the ends sticking into holes cut on the other surface. It’s all cut out of PG maple plywood.
The trickiest part was the trial-and-error to make the holes and tabs the right size for a tight, but not impossible, fit. The laser seems to take away 0.15mm on either side of the cut line. (Does that match others’ experiences?)
At any rate, I got something that tapped together with a small mallet and is holding up without any glue. It helps that the minifigs don’t weigh very much!
I’m proud of this being my first custom design of a “useful” object (in the past I’ve just embellished boxes.py designs). I did it entirely in Inkscape, and would be happy to share the file if anyone is interested. I’m definitely getting a lot more comfortable with vector path operations.
I’ve been meaning to find time to make minifig/art toy stands to maximize the space in my display cabinet. I had been thinking cubes, but I like your open air design a lot… it uses way less material! Thanks for posting the design, I’ll probably start there and modify a bit (gonna need to be clear acrylic to let as much light as possible through to the lower shelves).
That sounds great! I hope you post pics when it’s done.
Besides any design changes, I’d assume you’d need to tweak the holes both
for differences in material height and what I’d assume is a reduced about
of compressibility of plastic over wood.
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Thanks for sharing.