How do you display your figures?

[Paulbot]

That's cool. I've wondered for a while what a collection sorted by colour would look like, and I like it. It works well.

[Yongeltron]

That's cool. I've wondered for a while what a collection sorted by colour would look like, and I like it. It works well.

Thanks mate! I've always wondered if anyone else does it! haha

I've not encountered any case of a collector organising by colour. It seems like the natural inclination of the TF fan is begin to organise by faction until you have too many and then you start grouping them by line or character or whatever. It seems like the aesthetic value of the collection overall is always well behind classification considerations (which obviously makes perfect sense as a collector).

[GoktimusPrime]

Ever considered arranging the colours in the order of the visible light spectrum? </cheek>

[Yongeltron]

That's definitely something for you to try Gok. I don't think I really have enough to cover the full spectrum. I'm sure you could do it though! All it would take is maybe a month of full-time rearranging.

[Jinto]

My way is: Whichever figures I'm interested in looking at & playing with right now are on my desk and nearby shelves. Everything else is in a couple of plastic tubs.

[prjkt]

I've reorganised my collection a little, now it's as follows:
Top shelf is my neo-G1(ish) collection - mostly Classics-verse mix of Hasbro & Takara - whichever deco I think is superior, with a few others mixed in, a couple of movie, TAV, and the occasional 3P that I feel fits in - i.e. Movie Lockdown as IDW Lockdown, TAV Roadblock as his mould fits in.

Below I've got a cube for Classics-verse "extras" - characters that are duplicated/replaced by those on the top shelf - i.e. Henkei Skyfire (replaced by Gen. Jetfire) and Gen. Kup (replaced by Hasbro Asia Excl. Kup)

Next cube along I've set aside for "other" continuities - This is where I'm going to stash my neo-Armada (Armada Megs/Starscream) and the neo-G2 collection I'm trying to build - trying to collect as many classics-verse G2 characters as possible

Third is my Prime/Movie-verse characters - put these together as they take up about the right amount of space to fill the cube.

Final cube is my WFC/FOC collection - mostly Takara versions, as my Hasbro versions have been put away to make room for the neo-G2 group.

Next to this shelving unit, I've got a table for my "Big Guys" - Metroplex, Green Giant, the three CW combiners so far, Hexatron and CW Prime/Cyclonus as I've got no where else for them atm.

[requiemau88]

By lines, or things that kinda belong together. With the exception of CHUG, that's broken up into 1984-85 for Autobots, then 86 plus new IDW and other Autobots, then Decepticons, then seekers on separate shelf, so 4 shelves total. After that I have Combiners from all series on an Auto shelf then Dec shelf. The rest is by toyline.

Newer stuff replaces older stuff, so once I have the denesity a line gets its own shelf, it there are lots of characters then they get split into Auto/Dec, so at the moment I've got an Autobot AoE Shelf and Galv/Lockdown are in storage. They might come off soon for Robots in Disguise stuff ... Need a more display shelves ... I've now got two massive tubs full of transformers and I'll need to get a third soon ...