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I currently do not have an adequate painting area, and my only space shares my computer and graphic's tablet (which is even more important than the computer, really).

So, when I want to paint, I need to put up the Tablet, close the computer, cover the keyboard, and move the monitors it of the way to move the lights into place.

I am getting new lights (a strip LED light, a magnifying lamp, and two clamp mounted crane lights to mount to the shelves above my computer).

So. . . . I have the lighting problems basically solved (or will do as soon as eBay delivers).

The problem is the miniatures.

I am pretty much limited to just one thing at a time, which is not terrible.

But there are times (like right now) where I am stuck on being able to work on what I have been working on, due to having to wait to go get my epoxy resins (Milliput, green/blue/red-stuff, and some other stuff that is sort of like a cross between Milliput and green stuff, only it is grey - it's in a big tub), so that I can do a conversion for a Great-Goblin Sub-General (Thunderbolt Mountain only does one leader figure. I need two or three).

And, during this gap (I am getting to the point/question), I would REALLY like to be able to work on my Rohirrim, Easterlings, or Gondorians.

But that would require packing up all of my Goblins, unpacking the Rohirrim (Easterlings or Gondorians), and moving them to the desk.

Here is the question:

Is there any way to speed the packing/unpacking process, or of storing the minis such that they are more readily moved to the painting table?

MB


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Or, to work on some of my WWII miniatures, or the 6mm Epic Tau stuff I have piled up (I have probably a Battalion worth of Tau Infantry - if the platoons are small).

But working on any of it requires solving the above problem.

so ur looking for a mobile painting space?
there is the one from GW...
or you can check art supply stores, or tool shops
some times you would come across some form of box that might work, currently when i want to paint somewhere other than my little table, i pack all paint that im going to use + molding supplies into a small tool box
i had a small cutting mat that was the perfect size fit in the toolbox pull out the tray with my brushes and models im working on, paints + "stuff" on the bottom of the box

The problem is less a need for a "mobile painting space" than it is for a place to put a mobile painting space.

That would not really help, as I would still have only one place to put it:

Where I am currently working.

What I am looking for is a way to make it easier to change subject matter when I am painting:

Going from working on Orcs, to WWII Americans, to 6mm Sci-Fi, to 28mm Humans for LotR, and then back to Orcs.

It is so very tedious to have to pack everything up (miniatures, not paints) before unpacking something else to paint.

MB

I tend to keep batches with the models attached to cocktaiil sticks shoved into styrofoam, that might do what you're after.

I bought some little storage drawer units that do the job - I put models and paints to go with them in there and slide them away when I need to change projects.