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**sparkywtf**

Odengrim Mekstuf wrote:
Nice thread. I have an end of my IKEA Gallant desk that is my paint/build station that I use exclusively for miniatures. As far as organizing, I have lots of little storage drawers as you can see. There are some underneath too...

It's nice to have an area where you don't have to constantly break down and set up every time.

Mine is similar to this set up. Painting/building on the left, computer on the middle/right, and life crap over the whole thing. With school starting my desk is less functional for modeling. I am probably going to switch it out too.

I keep all my bits in a closet though. Only painting stuff is in a 3 drawer thing, but the small version only like 8 inches wide and tall. Works perfect for storing GW (and only GW) paint. Also keep models in the top drawer that I don't want to lose.

**Ninjakinshu**

Fredjess2404 wrote:
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This is wonderfully neat and clean

**Floyd73**

Heres my modest creation station. I have to pack it away every night as I own a cat

**the_Armyman**

Fredjess2404 wrote:
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Do you ACTUALLY use this area to paint? Not a drop or spill on the mat and all the pots look unused. No half-finished minis or open boxes. I call shenanigans...

**OgreChubbs**

I call ocd lol. I take some pics of mine but it will be hard. All paints are in 3 tackle boxes and all model pieces are in random boxes here and there hell all my minis per army are pilled in on each other in a box lol.

**SirSertile**

I paint on this table. It's not exclusively for 40k, but I do other stuff on it like build/paint gundams.

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I just put my paints in a egg container, since I have very few at the moment. I also have my homemade waterpot. I'm just getting started, so that explains why there is so much scratch-built stuff.

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the_Armyman wrote:
Fredjess2404 wrote:
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Do you ACTUALLY use this area to paint? Not a drop or spill on the mat and all the pots look unused. No half-finished minis or open boxes. I call shenanigans...

There is a fairly large pile of bitz on the table though. Maybe he just cleaned and scrubbed his table just for the pic. If he did, then he gets some serious props for being able to clean his hobby table. I definitely have a problem with cleaning my table.

**the shrouded lord**

Actuely, I'm gOing to gotheough and clean my whole hobby desk later tonight. And LABEL EVERYTHING.

**Godeth**

Some good little spaces here, I have to use the dining room table. The wife isn't awlays best pleased with it.

**granander**

Very nice thread!

This is my space, the perspective is warped though since there is a wall keeping me from taking any good photos.

**carlos13th**

Here is mine, no dedicated space ATM so a portable dinner tray. Complete with cat

**dj-of-e**

Since I live in an apartment, I needed something portable I could go from desk to desk and not get it dirty or messy by paint.

And since I like to work on a clean pallete, my patented design via form and cardboard painting station desk make it easy to just cover it with more construction paper and re-tape it.

**avatarofawesome**

carlos13th wrote:
Here is mine, no dedicated space ATM so a portable dinner tray. Complete with cat

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**carlos13th**

Not even my cat. It's the girlfriends Luckily they have made no attempt to attack my miniatures. Also the only ones I have out are metal i like their chances for an armour save.

**psnmario**

ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Shortly after I installed a new floor and rearranged slightly in early March:

Close up of my painting area (older photo from January):

My desk is a two piece L-shaped desk that I picked up from IKEA (I believe it is from the Linnmon collection) with a drawer unit that I use to store various odds and ends. The top drawer is extra painting supplies (cork stoppers, oil paints, extra pallets, etc.), the second drawer is basing material, and the larger drawers hold other random modeling supplies (plasticard, bags decal sheets, partially assembled models, extra sprue frames, etc.). To the right of my desk is a large bookcase that I bought from Target that currently houses my completed models and WIP models in the top two shelves and my bits organizer, large boxes, and extra LPs on the bottom shelf (the LPs will have a new home once I get a suitable storage system in place). I will probably get a new chair too but I'm not in too big of a hurry for the time being.

This looks awesome dude very clean and orginized.

**honeybadger33**

I went from the top picture to the bottom picture in about 1 month of being in this wonderful hobby. Still never played a game but enjoy learning and assembling the models. Learn every day

**carlos13th**

I upgraded a little.

**darefsky (Flight Medic Paints)**

I am truly lucky that I have a huge amount of room in the basement (with a nice window and lots of light).

Wide shot of everything.

Airbrush Station.

Model Assembly Area.

Painting Table.

**Stormwall**

An older image as I now have better organization, especially since I have a walmart cutting pad that covers 80% of the table at least now.

It's lovely. Room for painting and room for cutting. Then again, it's a dinning room table...

**americanzero**

Have since added another 500w of lighting.