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If you happened to have read this thread, then you'll know where I currently stand. My wife does not have any problem with me painting while she's getting ready for bed in the evenings, so I have anywhere from a half hour to an hour. But, I need to make sure everything can stay out and easy to get to. In other words, something I can unpack, set up, and be ready with in a matter of a couple of minutes and clean up in a couple of minutes as well. I've seen the Citadel Project Box. Yes, it's nice, but I'm not sure it'd really do the trick for me as it doesn't have any room for the miniatures I'm currently working on. Does anyone else have any other ideas?

My current setup is a few storage containers/tackle boxes. One holds my paints, one holds the rest of my crafting supplies tools (brushes, painting handles, clippers, scraper, hobby knife, blades, etc.), and lastly one that contains all the models. Having to go through all three, pull out the models, mount them on the handles, pull out the paints I need, get my palette paper ready, pull out the brushes I need for this project (or this part of the project)... it all takes a lot of time. I want to essentially be able to leave everything out the way it is (except for my Series 7 brushes which I will happily clean and put in a safe place before putting everything up). Taking all of that out and putting it all up takes a large amount of time. And, I can't just leave them laying out.

Any suggestions? I don't have any fancy tools (no laser cutters, mounted saws, etc.) with which to make the incredibly cool boxes you see on YouTube (like the one shown below). So, anything DIY would have to be fairly simple.




Thanks in advance

SG

Well while not as glamorus as a hand built wooden box station
have you considered snapware containers?



one for tools
one or two for paints
one for models and bits

you can get multiple and snap em all together.

though if it takes you 3 tackle boxes for your equipment perhaps another option might be to downsize your stuff into one tackle box

I built a tray sort of like a tv dinner tray for my quick access needs a few years ago. It was big enough to hold 30 or so bottles of paint and whatever project I was working on at the time. In design, it looks a lot like this:


https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Build-Your-Own_Painting_Station

I cleared a section of shelf in a storage closet and it was ready to pull out and go at a moment's notice.

TTCombat do a pretty cheap painting station
https://ttcombat.com/collections/paint-racks-stations/products/paint-station-mix-palette-gw-citadel-tamiya-size

You will probably find that your local MDF laser cutting company do something similar.