As threatened, my new skiffs are now in place in the same cabinet as my Khetanna. For those who don't know, the display cabinet the Khetanna is in was never built with that in mind. It was actually built before Hasbro announced the barge in fact, but as luck would have it, I realised I could shoehorn one in there if I compressed the figures above it. Having ordered a Khetanna therefore, I thought it would be nice to add a skiff or two to the display, and so I was planning to do just that with the POTF2 version, but then Hasbro went and announced a new larger scale skiff! The cabinet is big, but never having been built with the barge in mind, let alone a barge and two larger skiffs, I realised the only way I could fit everything in is if I suspended the skiffs in front of the barge. As nice as it would have been to have had one skiff to the side of the barge, it simply wasn't possible in that cabinet, so I opted instead for a semi-recreation of the journey to the Sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi, rather than the Sarlacc pit scene itself.
I must say that hanging the two skiffs with fishing line was an absolute bastard to do! Again, had I been planning it from the start I could have designed ways to make it easier into the cabinet, but instead I had to make do with what I had, which meant threading the line through the shelf brackets above, but without removing and replacing the figures from that shelf (it takes ages to do that!). And getting the sodding things level was a complete nightmare!
Anyway, I've finally done it and I'm pretty pleased with the result. The fishing line is obviously visible, but not as much as you might think (the photo flash makes it look worse). I may redo it eventually as the rear skiff uses more fishing line than it needs to, but it will do for now:
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