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So I couldn't find one of these threads already (without necro'ing one), figured it was time to start a new one.
Post your painting setups - be they hideaway setups like mine, grand production stations, or your favourite shoebox!
I'll start;
First, a bit of background, I have small kids, and they eat things - paints, glues, knives, files, drills, plastic - all of these things cannot be anywhere within range of my kids, or within range of my kids standings on a chair and climbing over to it.
I had noticed on tale of painters that Rev had a similar problem, and his solution was quite tidy
So I set about doing the same thing.
This is the cupboard;
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Excuse the collection of junk on top - it is a collection of scenery from a yard sale, a dice tower in construction, distilled water, Isopropanol and the ashes of my two puppies :(
The chair is for two reasons - first, my posture is terrible, second, that chair tires me out a bit (which is exactly what I wanted in a chair)
Front view
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When getting a cupboard, I wanted one with locks on the doors, and no draws at the bottom - this was a beautiful old cupboard, those doors fold all the way back to the side.
On the right, is the extraction host and it's holder - that holder doubles as a bracket to point the hose out the window. There is a stealth Space Hulk hiding behind it.
Fully open
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Everything ended up fitting really well, compressor slides out a bit on it's platform, keyboard drawer is a great work surface
I added the rail that the paint racks are sitting on - the shelves on the left door are cheapies from IKEA, and that is an ottlite on the right hand door
A quick run-through of what is where - I tried to doublespoiler this, but the forums don't listen to me;
Top shelf
- left is some finished hobbit models in front of some spray cans and storage tins (Dettol/hardware)
- middle is models to get done, some AOBR marines, CSMs and some test terminators
- right is the white box (new paints and empty dropper bottles, flow retarder and stop-dri) - some LOTR stuff I got off ebay, which will be used to test paint stripping, modular boxes of spare parts and such, plasticard, mdf, felt, cardboard
Main area
Top - Flock, tissues / rank and file painting stand (loaded with dwarves) / collection of goblins to be painted / latex gloves, painters tape, small plastic cups, basing materials
Middle - Citadel paints on the left, moved to dropper bottles (with 2x hex screws, flow retarder + stop dri added) / synthetic brushes, micron pens, files, colour shapers, dental tools / Vallejo and mixed paints on the right (oil paints top right)
Bottom - Wet + dry pallets, tool stand with brushes, knives, nail files (water and more cups behind) / extraction fan / water in squeeze bottle, 12v drill for bolters/pinning
Left shelves
Top - Primers / needle juice / thinners / badger minitaire paints / PVA glue / clamps / plastic cups / blutac / masking tape
magnets hanging off shelf screws
Bottom - Hard tools for assembly and conversion / scissors, pliers, side cutters, paperclips, blutack paper, blue stuff mold, ky jelly, green stuff, windex, milliputt, maskol, glue, saw
1200 grit sandpaper stock
Drawer
Magnifying LED lamp, sprue offcuts, two cutting mats, white cardboard (which converts the spray booth to a lightbox), steel ruler
Bottom
Cork basing, green stuff, bin, white spirit, sansodor, mineral turps, spare garbage bags, more cups, ultrasonic, airbrushing drawer (airbrush, stand/cleaning jar, spare parts), compressor
Very bottom
Boxes of things either in progress, or completed - gallon of windex, spare spirits.
Desk area (painting)
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The paint racks at the back are from Back2base-ix, stained brown and mounted on a small shelf I built
The extraction fan fits under that, ejecting air through a hole in the back of the cupboard
The centrepiece there is just an off-cut of MDF with a ton of holes in it - at the bottom is a piece of MDF with PVA glue ridges to stop brushes sliding away
Custom wet pallet on the left - flock box + kitchen sponge + p3 wet pallet paper = perfect
Desk area (airbrushing)
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The cutting mat draw also stores that fold out light - I can go from fully closed to this position in about a minute without rushing - and more importantly, can pack up in a hurry before releasing the children
And that is my setup - if you can think of anything to add or remove, I am always open to suggestions - in a lot of ways this meta-part of the hobby is it's own great deal of fun. Literally the only area of my life that is organised
That is an amazing idea me and the wife are trying for a 2nd baby at the moment and when we do I will lose my painting room. Might have to keep my eye out for a dresser like this so I can keep painting indoors. She keeps saying I will have to move down the bottom of the garden into the shed, but that would mean running power down there. This would be cheaper and easier.
But anyway here is my current setup
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This is mine, an unholy clusterfeth of disorginization and chaos. Just the way we like it.
Its shoved in the back corner of the bedroom, between a bed, a book case, and a rabbit cage.
Shortly after I installed a new floor and rearranged slightly in early March:
Close up of my painting area (older photo from January):
I use my tiny basement as my hobby room/Fortress of Solitude and it has everything I want and need; painting desk, minifridge full of beer, record player with vintage Advent floor speakers, TV with recliner, computer, and my bass guitar.
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.
d-usa wrote: "When the Internet sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending posters that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing strawmen. They're bringing spam. They're trolls. And some, I assume, are good people."
soitra wrote:That is an amazing idea me and the wife are trying for a 2nd baby at the moment and when we do I will lose my painting room.
I got mine for like $75, but that took a whole lot of effort on ebay weeding through it all. IKEA actually make something similar that would do the job, but it is ~$500, and IKEA quality.
Looks like you have custom made a lot of those stands man, looks good.
tomcat31 wrote:Here's mine. Still in the kitchen until my gaming cabin is finished.
What is this gaming cabin going to look like?
ScootyPuffJunior wrote:Close up of my painting area (older photo from January):
That is a nice setup man, do you airbrush on that desk without extraction?
tomcat31 wrote:Here's mine. Still in the kitchen until my gaming cabin is finished.
What is this gaming cabin going to look like?
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It will be a 10" x 12" shed with gaming table and painting station. Large windows at each end and electricity. I have already bought the shed, I just need to build it.
soitra wrote: That is an amazing idea me and the wife are trying for a 2nd baby at the moment and when we do I will lose my painting room. Might have to keep my eye out for a dresser like this so I can keep painting indoors. She keeps saying I will have to move down the bottom of the garden into the shed, but that would mean running power down there. This would be cheaper and easier.
But anyway here is my current setup
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Why is it people can't get a free editing program just to rotate their pics ? They have them for smart phones and PC's.
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tomcat31 wrote:Here's mine. Still in the kitchen until my gaming cabin is finished.
What is this gaming cabin going to look like?
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It will be a 10" x 12" shed with gaming table and painting station. Large windows at each end and electricity. I have already bought the shed, I just need to build it.
I... really want one. Stick a mini fridge and a bed in there and I could spend the rest of my life in it.
ScootyPuffJunior wrote:Close up of my painting area (older photo from January):
That is a nice setup man, do you airbrush on that desk without extraction?
Yep.
I haven't had any air quality issues and I typically only spray water-based acrylics. The only thing "unsafe" I have is Alcald II paints and I use all the proper precautions when dealing with them, which is rare (I bought most of them to paint a 1/72 scale Apollo 11 CSM/LM model that I haven't completed yet).
Sammoth wrote: Why is it people can't get a free editing program just to rotate their pics ? They have them for smart phones and PC's.
Why is it that people have to make unnecessary condescending comments about something that is unimportant to the topic being discussed?
The photo is the proper orientation in his gallery so it most likely has something to do with the way it was linked in the post:
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