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PVDDisplay Case

Large 40411 Land Rover Defender

Give your LEGO® Land Rover Defender the display it deserves. This premium acrylic display case is designed to protect your model from dust, scratches, and accidental damage while turning it into a clean, showroom-style centerpiece. The Land Rover Defender is a rugged, adventure-inspired build, and this display case highlights that character with a clear, modern presentation. Whether placed on a shelf, desk, office cabinet, or collector’s display wall, the case keeps the model visible from every angle while adding a more polished, finished look. Made with high-quality transparent acrylic panels and a sturdy display base, this case is ideal for collectors who want long-term protection without hiding the details of the build. The clear cover helps preserve the model while still allowing the vehicle’s body lines, interior details, wheels, and off-road styling to stand out.

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$199.00

Ships in 2–3 business days · 60×40×30 cm · Cast Acrylic 5mm

✦ Ships free — orders over $100 include shipping

Large 40411 Land Rover Defender
2 backdrops included — try them below

Display Case for LEGO® Land Rover Defender

The backdrop system

One case. 2 worlds.

Each backdrop slides into a hidden channel behind the display floor. Pick one below and watch the case change — exactly the way it does on your shelf.

Large 40411 Land Rover Defender with the Modern Desk backdropLarge 40411 Land Rover Defender with the Living Room backdrop

ScenesModern Desk

Scenes

Tip: use to flip through backdrops.
The swap

Thirty seconds to a new scene.

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Lift

The shell lifts straight up off the base. No clips, no screws, no fingerprints where they matter.

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Slide

Drop any backdrop into the rear channel. It seats itself flat and square — every time.

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Lower

Set the shell back down. New season, new city, new livery. Same collection.

Race day. Tokyo night. Bare studio. Rotate scenes with the seasons — or your mood.

01Empty · Filled

The same case, two lives.

Drag the handle to compare. One side sits empty; the other cradles your set. The display case makes even the empty shelf a statement — once the model lands inside, the scene comes alive.

Empty caseWith set
With Set
Empty
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02Materials

Every claim here has a test behind it.

Report 2024(X)07065, issued against the national standard for cast industrial acrylic sheet by a laboratory accredited under the ILAC mutual recognition arrangement. Twelve properties measured. Where a figure is not in that report, it is not on this page.

Cast, not extruded
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Cast, not extruded

Polymerised between glass rather than pushed through a die, and tested against the cast-sheet standard rather than the general one. Cast panels carry almost no internal stress — no fine white crazing after a year on a warm shelf.

94.6% light through
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94.6% light through

Total luminous transmittance, measured. The standard asks for 91 and most clear acrylic lands near 92 — about four per cent is lost to surface reflection no matter what, so the room to be better than average is narrow. This sits at the top of it.

Thickness follows span
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Thickness follows span

Three millimetres on the small cases, four in the middle, five on the largest. A panel bows more the further it has to reach, so one thickness across a range either wastes material at the bottom or gives at the top.

Stays clear
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Stays clear

Acrylic does not yellow with age — the cheap display boxes that do are polystyrene, which breaks down under light within months. Softening point measured at 109°C, so a sunlit shelf is nowhere near enough to move it.

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Tested, not asserted

Panels go to an independent laboratory accredited under the ILAC mutual recognition arrangement, whose results are accepted across roughly a hundred economies. Tensile strength came back at 73.8 MPa against a 70 requirement, impact at 19 kJ/m² against 17.

Seven properties, seven passes.

Report 2024(X)07065

The bar marks what the standard asks for. Everything to the right of it is what the sheet actually did. Five more properties were recorded without a threshold to meet.

Light transmittance
91 %
94.6%+4%
Tensile strength
70 MPa
73.8MPa+5%
Impact strength
17 kJ/m²
19kJ/m²+12%
Vicat softening point
100 °C
109°C+9%
Tensile modulus
3000 MPa
3140MPa+5%
Elongation at break
3 %
10%3.3×
Shrinkage on heating
2.5 %
2.1%+16%

Tested against GB/T 7134 for cast industrial acrylic sheet, at a laboratory accredited under the ILAC mutual recognition arrangement — its results are accepted across roughly a hundred economies, this one included.

Why the sheet gets thicker as the case grows.

A panel bows under its own weight, and the bow grows far faster than the span does — double the reach and it sags roughly sixteen times as much. One thickness across a whole range either wastes material on the small cases or gives way on the large ones.

Small
30 cm · 3 mm
Medium
50 cm · 4 mm
Large
80 cm · 5 mm

Drawn to explain the reasoning, not to scale. The thicknesses are the ones we build to.

03Specifications

The numbers.

Designed to fit your collection perfectly. Ships flat-packed with all hardware included — assembly in minutes.

“Sheet thickness came back at 4.0mm against a 4.0 ± 0.5 requirement.”
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Brand
PVD®
Outside
60×40×30 cm / 23.6 × 15.7 × 11.8 in
Overall footprint — what it takes up on the shelf
Inside
59 × 39 × 29.5 cm / 23.2 × 15.4 × 11.6 in
Usable space — measure your set against this one
Material
Cast Acrylic 5mm
Weight
3.5 kg
Delivery
Flat-packed · hardware included
LEGO® model shown for reference — sold separately
Before you buy

The things people actually ask.

What if it arrives scratched or broken?

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We replace it, and it costs you nothing. Send a photo within 30 days of delivery and a new case ships — no return shipping, no fee, and you do not need to send the damaged one back. Acrylic travels with protective film on both faces and we open every case here before it goes out, but panels get handled and film gets pulled. When it happens it is our problem to fix, not yours to live with.

What if I just change my mind?

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Thirty days from delivery, and the return is free — tell us and we send a prepaid label, then refund the full price with no restocking fee and no deduction for shipping either way. You do not have to tell us why. Building it does not cost you the return either: these ship flat-packed and are meant to be assembled, so we only ask that the panels come back unmarked and packed well enough to survive the trip.

Will it scratch in normal use?

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Acrylic is softer than glass, so yes, it can — the same trade that makes it clearer and far less likely to shatter. Dust it with a microfibre cloth rather than paper towel, and skip ammonia cleaners: glass cleaner is the usual culprit behind a hazed case.

Will it yellow over the years?

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No. Acrylic is UV-stable by nature — the display boxes that go yellow within months are polystyrene, a cheaper plastic that breaks down under light. Ours is cast acrylic, measured at 94.6% light transmittance and a 109°C softening point, so a sunlit shelf is nowhere near enough to change it.

Is the case UV-protective for the set inside?

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Partly, and we would rather be exact about it: plain acrylic blocks most UVB but only around a third of UVA, so it slows sun-fading rather than stopping it. If a set is going somewhere with hours of direct afternoon sun, no case of any material saves it — move the shelf.

Cast or extruded acrylic?

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Cast. It is polymerised between glass rather than pushed through a die, which costs more per sheet and is why the panels carry almost no internal stress — the fine white crazing that shows up on cheaper cases after a year on a warm shelf. Our sheet is tested against GB/T 7134, the standard written for cast sheet.

Every scene

The whole collection.

Built in limited batches

Your set already earned it.
Give it the podium.

Cut for your set, not adapted to it — and 2 backdrops so the shelf never looks the same twice.

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Large 40411 Land Rover Defender
Free shipping over $100
Lifetime Warranty
PVD×PTO Ski & Snowboard

Skiing is seasonal — but our team isn’t. PVD was created by the same coaches and crew behind PTO Ski & Snowboard to keep our local team together year-round. We’re real people in Oregon who love the outdoors, love skiing, and yes — love toys too. We bring the same care and service to every display case as we do to every ski fitting.

Your PVD store credit is also redeemable at PTO Ski & Snowboard.

5639 SW Arctic Dr, Beaverton, OR 97005

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