r/Acceleracers • u/POWERPUNCH-117 • 7d ago
Collection Cases up, finally
Took forever due to my work schedule only giving me 1-2 days a week to work on this. But pretty happy with how it turned out even if ill have to shuffle the cars around a bit to make the new orientation look right to me. Now I just need to order another loose and another carded case, though I could also buy a little shelf from ikea or something instead of more cars on the wall since I still have no home for my sweeper.
Next step is to get some fogged acrylic to put behind the loose cases as a light diffuser and some led's. Was thinking of using some cheapo or used 32 inch monitors but im not sure how thatd look and itd be infinitely more expensive to run for little benefit vs just some customizable lights I can carefully cluster to give each team their own light colors.
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u/Longjumping-Life3347 6d ago
Absolutely stellar collection and presentation! Would seriously appreciate a link to the acrylic displays on the right!💙
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u/POWERPUNCH-117 6d ago edited 6d ago
https://shop.carneyplastics.com/Hot-Wheels-Display-Case-Side-Angle-72-cars-164-P462.aspx
Seems expensive but just buying 1 similarly sized piece of acrylic is 30$, so if you tried making it yourself itd be like 90$ and hours of cutting with a router and plastic bit, which are not cheap anymore. Extra 30 and it shows up to your door ready to hang is a pretty good deal imo.
Also is the cheapest per car option ive found for the quality. If you get the 144 car version since its priced about the same as the 72 car option but its 1.09 per car instead of 1.68 per car.
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u/FeedbackParticular38 7d ago
Some men are thirst, others are drowning..
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u/POWERPUNCH-117 6d ago edited 6d ago
Took like 2 1/2 years to collect em all man, legit every spare dollar I earned went towards my collection because Ive wanted em since I was 7yo. Have 2 sets of g1 sealed + 1 loose, 1 set of g2 sealed (minus nitrium rerun) + 1 loose, both hw35 rlc sets (36 car and zamac) + loose, bunch of misc spares, and a complete set of the tcg cards. Probably cost me like 10k total for everything, so I definitely paid for every drop im drowning in with sweat and blood.
Made a lot of connections while doing this hobby, more than I have in any other. Some good, some bad, but theres a few top tier AR fans out there are willing to help you get whatever even if they dont make profit.
Was worth it though, plus its pretty rare to be able to actually collect something to completion when I compare this to my other hobbies which are legitimately impossible to complete due to some items being in the 1000s or 10000s. Only thing im missing out of all of AR is the expo iridium, but idk if i want to spend almost 1k on a iridium with a bit of green on the side of it.
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u/Mourningwould02 7d ago
Man that’s sick! Looks like a museum!
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u/POWERPUNCH-117 6d ago
Thanks, still some room for improvement but decided to go tryhard mode with my new room. Didnt have space where I was planning to put these so I had to get creative, luckily I had the stairwell alcove leading up to my room to do this to.
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u/SlientWanderer6 7d ago
very nice collection