How To Convert An Ikea Picture Frame Into A Lego Minifig Display

Here's a nifty idea for displaying your Lego minifigs. You can take an ikea Ribba picture frame, and make it into a display.

I can't take credit for the idea. Someone else posted this online, but they seem to have forgotten that Ikea uses metric measurements, and they did all of their measurements in inches. This resulted in bizarre spacings that are not easy to reproduce. Seriously, they had measurements like "3.07 inches". Where does one find an inch ruler in hundredths instead of base 2 fractions?? So this is the same thing, but in easy metric measurements, such as the 5.5cm spacing.

Buy an Ikea Ribba 50x50cm picture frame

Buy a piece of hardboard the same thickness as the glass, and cut it to 50x50cm.

I believe the glass is about 3mm or 1/8" thick.

Measure and mark 3.1cm up from the bottom edge on the left and right sides

3.125cm, if you can be that precise...

Make a straight line from your two marks

I'm using a laser, because lasers are awesome. You could otherwise put a ruler or other straight edge above your marks.

Put a piece of masking tape along the line

Measure and mark 6.25cm up from your masking tape on both sides

Again, 6.28cm if you want to be really precise.

Another straight line to connect the dots

And tape along the line again

Repeat the 6.25cm interval and taping

On the bottom and top tapes, measure and mark 5.7cm from the left side

From that mark, mark every 5.5cm on the top and bottom tapes

Connect your marks on the top and bottom with a straight line, and mark on every piece of tape

Repeat for each column

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