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I might as well. My fiancee made this for me since she got bored one day.

I try to keep it clean. It's going to need a vacuum soon, since it's got basing sand all over it.

The rest of the room isn't actually a gaming room, I just get that little corner.

AustonT wrote:

marv335 wrote:Seriously, the mess some of you guys live/work in would drive me insane.
I'll have to take some pictures later.

I keep my guns organized and my wargaming as a slovenly mess to distract potential house breakers. Well, that and the booby traps.

Booby traps are illegal. If burglars hurts themselves on them they can sue.

Dead people don't litigate.
Make sure they devices are deadly and efficient.

Bat Manuel wrote:

AustonT wrote:

marv335 wrote:Seriously, the mess some of you guys live/work in would drive me insane.
I'll have to take some pictures later.

I keep my guns organized and my wargaming as a slovenly mess to distract potential house breakers. Well, that and the booby traps.

Booby traps are illegal. If burglars hurts themselves on them they can sue.

Burglars can sue you if they fall through your skylight. There's one rule for shooting people and booby traps: there can be only one witness. So burglars stop breathing.

Here is my cramped little workspace.

-Loki- wrote:I might as well. My fiancee made this for me since she got bored one day.

I try to keep it clean. It's going to need a vacuum soon, since it's got basing sand all over it.

The rest of the room isn't actually a gaming room, I just get that little corner.

Its so clean!
I like it! I could not stand working in some of these cluttered areas (not to bash on you that do; as they say "whatever floats your boat" )

forruner_mercy wrote:
Its so clean!
I like it! I could not stand working in some of these cluttered areas (not to bash on you that do; as they say "whatever floats your boat" )

Even if I clean, after one day of working it is a cluttered mess again. I think my desk is a mirror of my thought process, which jumps all over the place while I work.

d-usa wrote:

forruner_mercy wrote:
Its so clean!
I like it! I could not stand working in some of these cluttered areas (not to bash on you that do; as they say "whatever floats your boat" )

Even if I clean, after one day of working it is a cluttered mess again. I think my desk is a mirror of my thought process, which jumps all over the place while I work.

Yeah I hear that, I have a terrible tendency to move from project to project as new ideas spring to mind. This tends to lead to half built squads sitting for days, half painted everything sitting for weeks... and of course large portions of the contents in my bitz box migrating from one spot to another on my desk at all times.

d-usa wrote:

forruner_mercy wrote:
Its so clean!
I like it! I could not stand working in some of these cluttered areas (not to bash on you that do; as they say "whatever floats your boat" )

Even if I clean, after one day of working it is a cluttered mess again. I think my desk is a mirror of my thought process, which jumps all over the place while I work.

The worst mines gotten is having basing sand all over it which I need to vacuum, and the odd extra model on it that's not being worked on (like the vampire count, corpse cart and Salamander in that picture). All bits are kept in tackle boxes and models, wether finished or not, either in my case or on a shelf (since I'm waiting for more foam trays).

here's my room (thumbnails)



and hobby table

AustonT wrote:

Bat Manuel wrote:

AustonT wrote:

marv335 wrote:Seriously, the mess some of you guys live/work in would drive me insane.
I'll have to take some pictures later.

I keep my guns organized and my wargaming as a slovenly mess to distract potential house breakers. Well, that and the booby traps.

Booby traps are illegal. If burglars hurts themselves on them they can sue.

Burglars can sue you if they fall through your skylight. There's one rule for shooting people and booby traps: there can be only one witness. So burglars stop breathing.

Kill the mutant...er...burglar, give 'em concrete shoes, and take 'em for a swim. It's not like they went and told the cops "Hey, I'm gonna go rob this guy's house, so if I don't come back within, say, two hours, he might have killed me. Okay?" And when the body hits the shore, there's nothing (presuming that you didn't leave any hair/tissue/other DNA) linking the person's death to you. Hell, even if you're careless and leave something with the body, there's no case without probable cause. Again, it's not like he was advertising it...

I've done a lot of thinking on this matter.

My post isn't here? o.o

Wow...three things jump out at me after looking at this thread:
1) We are such nerds. GJ everyone on your action figure/scifi book collections

2)I am not the messiest hobbyist out there! Yay!

3)Wait, were there three? Oh, right...I'm kinda jealous of the spaces some of you have. Even if I took over my entire basement I would still have less hobby area than some of you...and then I wouldn't have a tv area.

Well, I'll try to get some pics for you guys to peruse later.

Scipio Africanus wrote:

I wish mine were cleaner, I'm not allowed to make it so.

Wait, what?

Break out the broom and dust-pan before you end up on an episode of horders!

My mother does not let me throw anything out

Eggroll wrote:

Going to throw a pic of my workspace here as well to share. This is an older pic I had from a few months back. Since then I've upgraded my airbrush equipment, got rid of the printer on my top shelf and sold the Logitech G27 steering wheels and pedals (seen under the desk) so my workspace is a bit cleaner overall. The Ultramarine honor guards and Warmachine figs seen in the pic are still unpainted though.

Your desk has driving pedals, thats awesome! (LOL)

I won't flood this post with moar pics of my mancave but I have 8 newly updated pics of my miniatures mancave here http://warfrog.blogspot.com/p/man-cave.html on my blog.

Here is a taste, my primary workstation and bitz box.


My Tyranid hoard (unpainted or recently stripped)
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My wife and I have dedicated a larger room in our basement to be our gaming cave, we have a 10ft x 4 conference table surrounded by bookshelves for all of our RPGS and Euro style board games. She is a major geek too.

MaximusPrime wrote:

Eggroll wrote:

Going to throw a pic of my workspace here as well to share. This is an older pic I had from a few months back. Since then I've upgraded my airbrush equipment, got rid of the printer on my top shelf and sold the Logitech G27 steering wheels and pedals (seen under the desk) so my workspace is a bit cleaner overall. The Ultramarine honor guards and Warmachine figs seen in the pic are still unpainted though.

Your desk has driving pedals, thats awesome! (LOL)

Heh yeah I used to game a bit more. Those were the Logitech G27's which were some of the best wheel/pedals around. I got bored of of it after awhile though and ended up selling them.

Thats what I got of my hobby craise really. The boxes hold my 2500 Dwarf army, 3000pt 40k Ork Army, and my FoW army, my ancients army is in the carage as Ive bin using it for quick storage cause of a lot of use lately ;D. Plus all my rules books and wargaming magazine (e.g. Wargames 22 copys of wargames illustrated and 2 'good' copys of white dwarf)

My room :3

My desk is currently being taken up by books, but you can make out my codex with the rule book (black file), learning the rules again in what time I have for myself. Then theres my showcase in between my 2 lovely posters

As i have just moved, i thought i'd share my new hobby room. With a little persuasion that keeping it all in 1 room will keep the rest of the house tidy, the GF agreed, and i'm real happy. Only moved 2 weeks ago, so its still a bit of a mess...









And I need a paint rack =p

I have a dedicated gaming room over the garage. There is an assembly area, painting area, basing area and a well buried gaming table.

Assembly area. On the right side of the photo you can see the edge of a buried green 4' x 8" gaming table...




Painting area. Pink Tyranids in progress




Paints


Army boxes

is it weird that I would feel right at home in that mess?

Aerethan wrote:is it weird that I would feel right at home in that mess?

Wouldn't we all?

Oh I hate would hate myself if my stuff looked like that (not that it is bad, just not my style)

I think I rearrange my collection of stuff more then I do build or paint, and it is neat and organized, I just feel certain things belong in other boxes that day or something.

LOL! Have been doing exactly that for the last couple of days. There are 39 of those large plastic army boxes with the following armies:

40K
Dark Angels
Eldar
Eldar Pirates/Corsairs
Orks
Imperial Guard
Slaanesh Marines
Tyranids

Mostly Unbuilt
Nurgle/Death Guard
Adeptus Mechanicus
Inquisition/Sisters of Battle

Fantasy
Orcs
High Elves
Wood Elves

Other
Vor Growlers
Vor Neo Soviets
Warmachine Cryx
BattleTech
1/72 scale WWII German and US
Dark Age

sparkywtf wrote:

I think I rearrange my collection of stuff more then I do build or paint, and it is neat and organized, I just feel certain things belong in other boxes that day or something.