I have a bunch of fun projects I want to do, but I told myself I had to get this one done first. I have a box of carefully wrapped die-cast cars and trucks stored in the closet, and they should be on display. I had no suitable space for diecast-car shelves in the trainroom so I recessed these new shelves in the walls of the stairs leading up to it. I think they look good there.
I started the project early yesterday and just completed it now. Saturday morning, after the paint dries two days, I will put those cars on these new shelves. There is a lot of stair space for more shelves over time, too, as inevitably, I add more diecast cars, trucks, and tractors. The only thing I will do different next time is to paint the wood before I start building the shelves.
The only potential trouble I see is if someone coming up or down the steps snags their brushed up clothing onto a car detail sitting in your shelf and yanks it off the shelf and down the steps the model goes.
Do you have a plastic hinged cover to prevent such a disaster?
