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Bookshelves (35654) 1:35 MiniArt via Creative Models Ltd Bookshelves seem to be de rigueur placed behind pundits being interviewed from home since the Covid lock-downs, but they’ve been around much longer, and before we gained access to the sum product of mankind’s intelligence (and stupidity, sadly), they were our primary knowledge base. If you’re a builder of dioramas or vignettes, you might occasionally have need to depict a room with such things as book shelves, something that is becoming less common in your average modern household. The Kit This boxed set from MiniArt contains bookshelves and their contents that are commonly known as books, and it arrives in an end-opening figure box that has a painting of the contents on the front, brief instructions on the rear and a painting guide if you need some inspiration for colour choice. Inside the box are fifteen sprues in grey styrene, twelve to make up the shelves and their support ladders, and three larger sprues that contain rows of books on end, aligned with their spines facing out, or in rough piles that are angled as if leaning over. Each shelf unit is made from two ladders and up to five shelves per unit, creating six in total, which can be populated with thirty-six straight blocks of books, and nine at an angle. Bear in mind however that the books have hollow backs, and the underneath is also absent to avoid sink marks from marring the detail that is engraved into the visible surfaces. The box art shows the shelves standing in an open room, but the illusion would be broken if they were seen from behind, so bear that in mind when choosing the set for your project. Markings There are no decals, and you can paint the shelves and books in any colour you should wish, adding some gilded detail on the spine by picking out the raised areas in gold. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of
