I need to buy some more shelving and think I want to take a little departure from yet another Detolf.

do any of you display any of your toys on open shelving/wall shelving? I know I've seen a pic here and there, but it seems like most people keep it all behind glass.

those of you with some toys out, how often do you have to dust them?

a lot

Yeah, I keep some toys on some open air book shelves and they are always dusty, and I like to think that I'm pretty clean. When I get some more shelving, I will probably be going the IKEA route but not the Detolf...they have alot of options where you can add various kinds of doors to the shelves.

all my stuffs are out in the open. some are on shelves, some on top of door frames, some in my plants, even a couple homeboys next to my coffee grinder to say hello in the morning. they dont ever seem to get dusty, i guess from getting played with and moved around all the time. or maybe my girly girl dusts them when im not home.

While I have one Detolf, almost all of my stuff is in the open on floating shelves or in an Ikea Expedit (open front and back). I dust a couple times a month (not a stickler for that kind of thing). This works fine for bigger figures, but it can be a pain in the a-hole with minis.

A link to some pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/elword/255241039/in/set-72157594221970926/ (as I've promised myself that I wouldn't bombard people with my collection photos)

I think the Detolfs are great because they give great visability to all your shit. The one thing I don't like about them is that everything has to be seperated into little cubes, I would rather have one case with long shelves.

I've got several glass open shelves now. I like 'em cause I can see everything horizontal at eye level or higher as opposed to vertical in a detolf.

dust is an issue, but I don't dust regularly.

Most my stuff is free range and in a room with an air filter. I hardly have to dust stuff in this room. Stuff elsewhere I have to dust.

i don't keep anything behind glass.

they are all on open shelves.

i use air dusters between more aggressive dusting sessions, keeps it under control.

thanks for the suggestions

I do like my detolfs, but I want to spice things up a bit.

and also I have some larger figures to display (larger than fight figs), and 2-3 of them take up a whole detolf shelf aka a total waste of space.

All glass! Way to dusty in AZ!

All glass! Way too lazy to dust in the Grim North!

IKEA has a really cool set of shelves I have all over my office and a couple in the living room. They are basically a bracket you screw into the wall and slip a wooden shelf over. I remeber thre being two or three different sizes and a bunch of different finishes.They do get dusty but like Jackie - I just power dust them off. I have my fight figures, Sideshow Universals and my - ummmmm..... circus punks on them.

I love looking at your monline photo gallery El!

You have some great display ideas and your pictures are awesome!

I like putting selected stuff out for the week. Then I wipe them and then put them back into the cabinet... rotating with new ones for some fresh HK air (cough) and keep doing this weekly. This way I am hoping the colors won't degrade that bad and stops from getting mold in this humid air if I leave them stagnant for too long.

Aw, thanks man!

I mostly use the Ikea floating shelves, but I just got some Detolfs for some of the smaller and more difficult to dust items.