Starting this summer Clear View Designs will be providing Abordage Models with our line of custom ship model display cases. "We are very pleased to be supplying our display cases to their United States customers. With a great devotion to both the sea and sailing, Abordage has been proudly producing beautifully hand crafted models since the company’ inception in 1989. The company workshop is located on the Island of Hispaniola where Columbus landed during his first voyage. Today the company employs highly skilled craftsmen who work only with the finest materials. Hundreds of hours go into making each model, from the original lofting of plans to the finishing touches. Hull construction is either hand laid-up resin or plank on bulkhead with a selection of precious wood. Deck details are reproduced with custom-made brass and chromed brass castings. Hand sanded hulls are finished with marine varnishes and polyurethane paint.
Clear View Designs sent a sample case for their inspection and appoval, which they loved! As they are updating their web site they will be adding photos of our case with one of their models inside. A sure match made for each other. We look forward to working with them and their customers in the near future.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
www.mydisplaycase.com
If your here looking around for info on a custom built glass and brass display case for your model you have come to the right place! Please check out our full web site at http://www.mydisplaycase.com/
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Motion Models Display Cases
NOTICE!
Model Aircrafts, Collector Airplane Display Models, Battle Ship Model Navy Ships
We here at Clear View Designs and http://www.mydisplaycase.com/ want to inform our customers that we are no longer supplying ship model display cases or doing business with Motion Models http://www.motionmodels.com/
After over a year of wonderful business relationship with them they have decided to go in a different direction with there display cases. If you visit there web site Ship Model Display Cases. Model airplanes ships aircraft aviation. Die cast aircraft models. there are 3 photos of mine on there that show our display cases. As you will notice they are the same photos on my site because I own those photos not Motion Models. Just so there is no confusion on the type of case you will get from Joel Rosen of Motion Models you should call him to ask. Because he does not have photos up there of the new type of kit case he is selling. He is still using my photos which I have asked him to take down. So if you have ordered a case from him in the past before January of 2007 and you want it to match your last case of oak or mahogany like you see in those photos you will have to order them from us now. This way the will match the ones you already have.
Our prices will be half of what Motion Models was charging there customers because you will be buying them directly from us the manufacturer and I am the owner and designer of that style display case. If you have any questions please feel free to give me a call and I will do my best to help you out.
We have been in business for over 23 years and our ship model display cases are not kits, so there is nothing else to buy or assembled Just install your model and your done!
If you would like a quote on your display case please visit us at : http://www.mydisplaycase.com/ and go to quote request page at the top.
Thank you for your time
Jim Roggero
President
Clear View Designs
http://www.mydisplaycase.com/
Model Aircrafts, Collector Airplane Display Models, Battle Ship Model Navy Ships
We here at Clear View Designs and http://www.mydisplaycase.com/ want to inform our customers that we are no longer supplying ship model display cases or doing business with Motion Models http://www.motionmodels.com/
After over a year of wonderful business relationship with them they have decided to go in a different direction with there display cases. If you visit there web site Ship Model Display Cases. Model airplanes ships aircraft aviation. Die cast aircraft models. there are 3 photos of mine on there that show our display cases. As you will notice they are the same photos on my site because I own those photos not Motion Models. Just so there is no confusion on the type of case you will get from Joel Rosen of Motion Models you should call him to ask. Because he does not have photos up there of the new type of kit case he is selling. He is still using my photos which I have asked him to take down. So if you have ordered a case from him in the past before January of 2007 and you want it to match your last case of oak or mahogany like you see in those photos you will have to order them from us now. This way the will match the ones you already have.
Our prices will be half of what Motion Models was charging there customers because you will be buying them directly from us the manufacturer and I am the owner and designer of that style display case. If you have any questions please feel free to give me a call and I will do my best to help you out.
We have been in business for over 23 years and our ship model display cases are not kits, so there is nothing else to buy or assembled Just install your model and your done!
If you would like a quote on your display case please visit us at : http://www.mydisplaycase.com/ and go to quote request page at the top.
Thank you for your time
Jim Roggero
President
Clear View Designs
http://www.mydisplaycase.com/
Monday, August 25, 2008
Ashley Has Won Wanumetonomy's Junior Golf Club Championship
Ashley has one her first Junior Club Championship at Wanumetonomy Golf and country club where she has been a member now for 6 years. Ashley did a great job playing in the wind today.
She shot a 63 for nine holes. She had a few ruff holes as she puts it but getting better every time she plays. Sugar Would be so proud!
This just after her third place finish in the RI RIWGA Championship this year at Buttom Hole golf course. Were she beat out two older players
to take third place by hereself. Way to go ASH!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
My Girls A Star Update
Ashleys Jones sode bottles with her photo on them has turned up in Seattle WA. Found by her best friend Hazel at a Startbucks! Nice Job Hazel for keeping an eye out for the bottles.
We will take a look at our Starbuck as well.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
My Girls A Star
My Daugther Ashley made it on the label of Jones Soda and
Here is her story.
At age 11, Ashley Roggero runs her own business and has a pretty good idea what she’ll do when she grows up. She’ll become a professional golfer, doctor or veterinarian. At home she keeps an eye on turtle Tina (or Tina Turtle, if you like) and cat Tyler, who suffers from diabetes.
“I’d like to be a vet because I don’t like it when animals get sick,” said the Portsmouth Middle School sixth-grader.While her golf career so far has been local, her face is being seen nationally. Ashley’s picture graces the label of Jones green apple flavored soda.
“I’d like to be a vet because I don’t like it when animals get sick,” said the Portsmouth Middle School sixth-grader.While her golf career so far has been local, her face is being seen nationally. Ashley’s picture graces the label of Jones green apple flavored soda.
Her Dad, Jim, took a picture of her relaxing on one of the family’s living room love seats after a long day at the beach in 2006. Her parents submitted it as part of an online contest, with Ashley’s photo among 800,000 vying for the label front.“We had a lot of friends and family voting,” her mom, Jane, said. “I didn’t know what her chances were but I thought it would be fun. Then one day we got a letter saying she’d been chosen. They don’t tell you a whole lot else. But it’s great.”The bottles should be hitting local stores such as Shaw’s and Stop & Shop any day now. Jones soda is manufactured in Seattle, and Seattle-based Starbucks also carries the product.
The Roggeros have yet to see bottles in stores featuring Ashley’s face, but there are plenty of people looking.“We have people looking up and down the East Coast,” Jane Roggero said. “We have family in Florida and friends in different places on the lookout.”Ashley said the pending fame, however short-lived, will have little effect. “My friends think it’s kind of cool,” she said. “They want to be on the bottle, too.”There is nothing one-dimensional about Ashley. One day this week she and her mother spent time walking the sand at Island Park, looking for sea glass. She makes the glass into necklaces, earrings and bracelets, for her company, My Beach Glass Kits. She sets up shop at fairs and events, and she includes instructions for making your own glass jewelry.“I love to feel all the different shapes and sizes of the glass,” she said.In the meantime, she loves math and science in school and plays mallets in the school jazz band. She looks forward to polishing her golf game in the warmer months.
Summer mornings are spent playing golf, usually at the Wanumetonomy Golf and Country Club, as a member of the Rhode Island Women’s Golf Association, and at clinics. The rest of the day is spent at the beach. Two summers ago, Ashley attended the U.S. Women’s Open, meeting pros such as Michelle Wie and Annika Sorenstam. She also draws inspiration from Portsmouth High School graduate Katherine Murphy, who now plays golf at Penn State University.“She’s nice and encourages us,” Ashley said. “She’s very helpful.”Ashley lives with her parents and 5-year-old brother James in a house that her father grew up in overlooking the Beach. “I go a lot,” she said. “In the summer, I like to stay there until it gets dark.” Or as her mother puts it, “She’s there until her head hits the pillow.” She still finds time to watch TV shows such as “American Idol” (she’s a Carly Smithson fan) and follows the Red Sox. Her next goal is to win the Rhode Island Women’s Golf Association’s Junior Championship and play in the national tournament. “I really want to get better this year,” she said. Meanwhile, the Jones soda bottle should be appearing locally soon. Ashley had entered the contest so long ago that she’d pretty much forgotten about it when she learned she had been chosen. “I think everyone should get to be on a soda bottle,” she said.
Custom Display Case VS. The Display Case Kit
As owner of mydisplaycase.com for 23 years we have seen it all. So I thought I would write a guide to help out some of you that have had questions on how to buy a real museum quality ship model display case. You should always ask these questions when looking to buy a ship model or train model or any model display case to help you understand the quality and construction of the display case.
Always a good idea to start with your model. Depending on what type of case you are looking for, a kit case or a case that comes completely assembled. We will start with info on a kit case.
Display Case Kits
A display case kit is a display case that most likely does NOT come with any real glass or plexi. Most of them have to be assembled by you the buyer. If your looking into buying a kit you must be sure it is going to fit your model. Most kits come in some standard sizes. As we all know there is no standard size in the modeling world. A lot of model makers will build from scratch and that can change the dimension of a model even if a flag was added to the top that would cause the height to change ect..
First measure the longest points of your model. Make sure you include the base if it is already sitting on one.
Measure the length , width and height. The add about 2 inches all the way around your model. That would give you the finish size of your case. You want your display case to fit your model perfectly. You don't want a case that is going to be make your model look lost or cramped inside the case. Most kits companies will not or can not build custom sizes in all directions. So make sure you ask first. Some kits will only except a certain size of glass or plexi thickness. So make sure you find out what thickness the case will hold. Some kits can only hold 1/8 plexi glass which on a large case say 45L x 35H x 15W when looking at the side of the case (45L x 35H) you would mostly see a deflection in the plexi because of the size of that piece. The biggest part of buying a kit case is you should get the sizes you need to buy for all the plexi pieces and price them out. They can really add up on some large case sizes. Home Depot has both plexi and lexan sheets in large sizes. a 36X72 sheet is 40.00ea you would need two of these to cut your own sheets out of then you would need a sheet that is 48 x 24 to cut the top out of.
45L x 35H x 2 pieces - 15W x 35H x 2 pieces 45L x 15W x 1 piece Which would bring your cost for the 3 sheets needed to get all these cuts out of them to 120.00 Plus tax. Then you have to cut them yourself. You can also call a glass shop to cut your plexi to the sizes you need. But it will cost a lot more. The same size piece as i just mentioned would cost you $298.00 In 1/4 " plus tax and $186.00 plus tax In 1/8" plexi. So if you buy a kit for say around 200.00 make sure you add in your $200.00 plus+ for the plexi now you have a kit case for over $400.00
Some kit cases will come unfinished. Which means you may have to buy stain ,ploy and sand paper for the do it yourself jobs as well.
Custom Glass and Brass Display Cases Shipped Complete and Fully Assembled
When ordering a custom display case as with the kit make sure you measure your model or item to be cased closely. Add the 2 inches around the item and that would be your finish case size. Custom display case companies like Clear View Designs /mydisplaycase build each case to fit your model perfectly, and do not charge extra for the custom size cases. You can have a choice of oak or mahogany wood bases. It is important that your base is at least 3/4 thick to support the model which on some models can be heavy. So this will help with mounting your model. A full assembled display case comes as it says, fully assembled! With real oak or real mahogany (not just stained a color of wood)1/8 double strength glass top and solid brass 7/32" brass angle on the glass edges. These types of cases are shipped fully assembled and complete. There is nothing else to assemble,buy sand or stain. Just install your model and your done! With a custom glass top case, getting into the model is as easy as lifting of the top. No screws to remove like on some kits case. The glass sits down into a glass channel to hide the edge of the glass from view.
With a glass and brass top case there is more to see of the model than with a kit case trimmed in bulky wood uprights and rails. With a brass trim case the brass is only 7/32 wide so it does not take away from the viewing of the model and it gives it a nice museum quality look as well. I always said there is nothing museum quality about a case that you have to buy parts for or assemble. So make sure you get the type of case your looking for.
A custom case may cost you a little more depending on the size of the case. Sometimes it can be less or the same price as a kit case , but then you have to buy all that stuff for your kit case.But for what your getting in the end with a complete case I think it's worth having a custom ship model display case built to fit your model .
If your a handy modeler or want to assemble your own display case and feel like buying and cutting your own glass or plexi for the kit than a kit case is for you.
If you prefer a more high end look to go with your expensive model a nice complement for it would be a custom glass and brass display case. This type of case would fit your model to your exact measurments and have that custom museum look about it.
So make sure you ask before you buy or bid on a display case of these types.
And as the old saying goes " You get what you pay for!
Always a good idea to start with your model. Depending on what type of case you are looking for, a kit case or a case that comes completely assembled. We will start with info on a kit case.
Display Case Kits
A display case kit is a display case that most likely does NOT come with any real glass or plexi. Most of them have to be assembled by you the buyer. If your looking into buying a kit you must be sure it is going to fit your model. Most kits come in some standard sizes. As we all know there is no standard size in the modeling world. A lot of model makers will build from scratch and that can change the dimension of a model even if a flag was added to the top that would cause the height to change ect..
First measure the longest points of your model. Make sure you include the base if it is already sitting on one.
Measure the length , width and height. The add about 2 inches all the way around your model. That would give you the finish size of your case. You want your display case to fit your model perfectly. You don't want a case that is going to be make your model look lost or cramped inside the case. Most kits companies will not or can not build custom sizes in all directions. So make sure you ask first. Some kits will only except a certain size of glass or plexi thickness. So make sure you find out what thickness the case will hold. Some kits can only hold 1/8 plexi glass which on a large case say 45L x 35H x 15W when looking at the side of the case (45L x 35H) you would mostly see a deflection in the plexi because of the size of that piece. The biggest part of buying a kit case is you should get the sizes you need to buy for all the plexi pieces and price them out. They can really add up on some large case sizes. Home Depot has both plexi and lexan sheets in large sizes. a 36X72 sheet is 40.00ea you would need two of these to cut your own sheets out of then you would need a sheet that is 48 x 24 to cut the top out of.
45L x 35H x 2 pieces - 15W x 35H x 2 pieces 45L x 15W x 1 piece Which would bring your cost for the 3 sheets needed to get all these cuts out of them to 120.00 Plus tax. Then you have to cut them yourself. You can also call a glass shop to cut your plexi to the sizes you need. But it will cost a lot more. The same size piece as i just mentioned would cost you $298.00 In 1/4 " plus tax and $186.00 plus tax In 1/8" plexi. So if you buy a kit for say around 200.00 make sure you add in your $200.00 plus+ for the plexi now you have a kit case for over $400.00
Some kit cases will come unfinished. Which means you may have to buy stain ,ploy and sand paper for the do it yourself jobs as well.
Custom Glass and Brass Display Cases Shipped Complete and Fully Assembled
When ordering a custom display case as with the kit make sure you measure your model or item to be cased closely. Add the 2 inches around the item and that would be your finish case size. Custom display case companies like Clear View Designs /mydisplaycase build each case to fit your model perfectly, and do not charge extra for the custom size cases. You can have a choice of oak or mahogany wood bases. It is important that your base is at least 3/4 thick to support the model which on some models can be heavy. So this will help with mounting your model. A full assembled display case comes as it says, fully assembled! With real oak or real mahogany (not just stained a color of wood)1/8 double strength glass top and solid brass 7/32" brass angle on the glass edges. These types of cases are shipped fully assembled and complete. There is nothing else to assemble,buy sand or stain. Just install your model and your done! With a custom glass top case, getting into the model is as easy as lifting of the top. No screws to remove like on some kits case. The glass sits down into a glass channel to hide the edge of the glass from view.
With a glass and brass top case there is more to see of the model than with a kit case trimmed in bulky wood uprights and rails. With a brass trim case the brass is only 7/32 wide so it does not take away from the viewing of the model and it gives it a nice museum quality look as well. I always said there is nothing museum quality about a case that you have to buy parts for or assemble. So make sure you get the type of case your looking for.
A custom case may cost you a little more depending on the size of the case. Sometimes it can be less or the same price as a kit case , but then you have to buy all that stuff for your kit case.But for what your getting in the end with a complete case I think it's worth having a custom ship model display case built to fit your model .
If your a handy modeler or want to assemble your own display case and feel like buying and cutting your own glass or plexi for the kit than a kit case is for you.
If you prefer a more high end look to go with your expensive model a nice complement for it would be a custom glass and brass display case. This type of case would fit your model to your exact measurments and have that custom museum look about it.
So make sure you ask before you buy or bid on a display case of these types.
And as the old saying goes " You get what you pay for!
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