I have never seen blisters displayed, and although I have sold and continue to sell thousands of blisters, I've never thought about displaying them.  I agree that pegs are not the way to go.  

I don't know how many you'd want to display, but if it's not too many, perhaps a shadow box would look great.  They are not overly expensive at Michael's Craft Stores, they'd keep the dust off, and they look professional.  The trick would be how to get the blisters positioned without damaging the blister or cardboard.  One option to consider is to create a custom piece of thin plexiglass, cut exactly to the interior dimensions of the shadow box, where holes the size of the blister bubbles are cut out in the right places.  That way, the blisters would be suspended by the broad base of the plastic blister instead of the small cardboard hole.  You would see through the plexiglass at the backing card.

I will say from experience that the plastic on these blisters often becomes quite brittle over time.  Blisters older than 25 years sometimes do O.K. and sometimes don't.  Therefore, any display solution should ideally minimize or eliminate accidental contact if the blister is older than 25 years in age.

I hope you'll show off your solution whenever/if ever you display them.  

About 4-5 years ago, I bought a small items display case with glass front.
Had about 8 shelves with 2-inch depth.
Basically it was a knickknack display case.
I placed a bunch of my better-painted minis inside for display and hung it in the game room.
IIRC it held about two dozen of them, including some dragons and giants.
These were all metal minis though.

It ended up being emptied though since at that time I had very few minis and needed them for play.

I suspect something like that might work, though it would need to be fairly large to accommodate the larger bases and the cards of the newer plastic minis.

If you are talking about displaying hundreds of minis... Well that would be a whole different deal.
I have a glass case that would do that and mine holds things as big as mini footballs, mini helmets and regular sized footballs.
Also includes several blister packs of NFL figures, about 200 NFL cards in plastic holders, several signed baseballs.
A six pack of Romulan Ale, about a dozen Star Wars Blister Packs of figures, and even some D&D minis near the center, along with bunches of other things.

I hadn't thought of that. I have a friend who is a Hot Wheels collector, though I'm not sure whether he uses those; I'll have to ask him.

One has to imagine that someone has their collection of carded Ral Partha 11-series on display...

One would think, yeah.

serleran wrote:I've always considered the proper display of miniatures to be out and in pose, like on a diorama or something. Beyond that, if they must be kept in their packages, I would probably go with a museum-like approach... encased in glass units, hopefully with all the faces pointing outward so you can actually see the figure. The ones in numerous parts would be weird, but oh well.

Also, unless you're a world-class painter, I would not paint them. Might want to coat them in something to avoid rust or whatever, but a bad paint job is (to me) worse than none.

Just my way of looking at it.

Yep, to each his or her own I suppose.
I have a totally different way of looking at Painting Minis though.
As a proud grandparent...

My grandkids, my wife and myself have occasional Miniature Paint days.
A couple of the grandkids are surprisingly good at it too.
So is my wife.
Mine however, lack something.... Like skill...  

Two of the five grandkids just blob paint on them as if they are really doing something awesome.
We encourage them to do the best they can of course, but even if the minis look horrid once they are done (which they often do) we wont tell them that.
And I aint gonna let a $1 miniature not painted well enough to suite miniature painting experts out there interfere with my grandkids smiles...
EVER...

Eventually, I suppose I will have to figure out how to take the bad paint off and start over on some of the minis.
But to me... even the bad paint jobs bring up a smile when I look at them.

Gnat the Beggar wrote:Mine however, lack something.... Like skill...  

That's exactly my dilemma, too. If I had an iota of skill, I'd consider painting them. I'm an impatient painter, which means I tend to rush things, and I'm inexperienced with choosing colors and such. I understand much of what should be done in theory (priming, dry brushing techniques, etc.), but it just ain't in my blood.

I've done a few in the past, and still have them, but they're strictly amateurish. Maybe we should start a "post pictures of your horribly painted minis" thread .

Two of the five grandkids just blob paint on them as if they are really doing something awesome.
We encourage them to do the best they can of course, but even if the minis look horrid once they are done (which they often do) we wont tell them that.
And I aint gonna let a $1 miniature not painted well enough to suite miniature painting experts out there interfere with my grandkids smiles...
EVER...

Good for you.

serleran wrote:Also, unless you're a world-class painter, I would not paint them. Might want to coat them in something to avoid rust or whatever, but a bad paint job is (to me) worse than none.

I'd consider taking them out of the packages and displaying them like that, but unless I have duplicates of something, I tend to think of myself as a caretaker/curator rather than the owner. From that perspective, and since I can't paint worth crap and the loose miniatures would likely eventually get mis-identified and mixed up, keeping them in the packages preserves them. Plus the packaging is cool, too.

Look at all the glorious room you could have by storing that Dragon #1 sideways

Mars wrote:Look at all the glorious room you could have by storing that Dragon #1 sideways

...and sending that White Dwarf to me...

Sorry in advance because this is a bit off-topic, but I've been painting up a mini for a fellow acaeum member, and I wanted to share a peek:



Thanks for indulging my amateur effort