[ALL] How is your workstation?

[jchaos79]

Hi to all,

So that's the question, how is your workstation (paint/modelling station)?

First to question, so first to answer:

I use a lunch tray to keep all the painting stuff, and use it also to paint. It is quick to put away to the top of a closet while not painting, and quick to bring to the main table to work.
Also use a white lamp, and lots of ashtrays, smoke and music while painting.

Here are some shots (sorry for the mess, but is actually what it is for real  )





How about you?

[Dwarf Supreme]

My workstation is a card table. It and its contents can be stowed away easily if I'm expecting company. All of my jars of paint are stored on a double-decker lazy susan. Brushes, files, X-acto knife, pencils, etc are stored in a plastic cup.   

[Stomm]

Well here is my place of non-work, or to be more precise my 'child free zone'. I can also dig out some literal 'in construction' photos, as the large picture window is the result of extending a dormer window to more that three times its original size. And of course I did all the floors myself, like a giant jigsaw puzzle that you have to cut new pieces to fit, and of course then sand, figure out how to put the skirting boards back on and then varnish, sand by hand and then re-varnish. I wish that I'd completely relaid the floor though, there are some bloody huge gaps under my desk that are just asking for me to drop a newly finished charcter model down, in fact I thought I'd done so when I finished that legion unit just prior to gluing the last figures into place...

Anyway, here you are:






And yes, those are real pumkins. I grew them myself and have yet to decide what to do with them, I even managed to grow a couple of small melons, which is quite good for outside in the UK. I'm going to try some watermelons next year...

[azrael71]

Is someone hoping to cash in Space Hulk at a later stage?

[Stomm]

Might be, I'm picking up another copy next Monday. I just wish that I'd had enough money to buy ten when it was still in the shops...

I'm surprised that no-one has commented on the bottle of Tesco Value Vodka. Its to kill of the red spot fungus on my leeks, that or to clean with or start BBQ's...

[azrael71]

I'm surprised that no-one has commented on the bottle of Tesco Value Vodka.

Thought it was to numb the pain of the utter chaos that is your painting room 

[Stomm]

I'm surprised that no-one has commented on the bottle of Tesco Value Vodka.

Thought it was to numb the pain of the utter chaos that is your painting room 

This is it relatively clear and tidy, as I expelled the boxes, filing cabinets and so on to the spare bedroom. Of course I had to take the bed in the spare room apart and put it up against the wall in order to do so...

Basically I need to get another shelf unit from Ikea (the ubiqutious Billy...) for my room to go in the corner where those wall shelves are currently resting on their side. Then they will go above the fouton and I'll be able to empty the contents of my remaining boxes full of odds and sods, and at least three boxes full of books from my parent's house (they moved last year, and downsized, IoW said 'here's some boxes full of your old stuff) and from my time at uni into said shelves, and of course stack things more effeciently. I mean using a whole shelf for a Darth Vader voice changing mask isn't really a good idea now is it?


Anyway that's the plan, probably going to be done in the New Year when the kids are in nursery a for three full days and I can go to Ikea on a weekday. As to all the GW bags scattered everywhere, well I concluded that storing blister packs in a load of plastic bags wasn't such a good idea, so I've been trying to pack them away in spare GW MO boxes, etc... I still have to find room for something like 20-30 Epic 40K blisters, almost all IG or Navy (thunderbolts, Marauders, etc...). There's also literally bags full of loose metal and plastic, mainly my lead-based Empire army that was never painted, with loads of headless horses and twisted metal knights, wizards and the like. I really should at least try to get these properly assembled and stored in some figure cases, as jumbled up in bags is ruining the models...