Improvements to the painting cupboard.

I have a painting cupboard. It started life as a computer cupboard but as I realised that I was more likely to paint if my stuff was out and set up rather than boxed away, I moved the computer out and the painting gear in. When I'm not painting the doors close and the place looks tidy.


But when it opens up it is full of painting goodness. I'm generally pretty happy with it and have been tweaking it over the years.

The paint station in operation.

It gets a bit disorganised.

 One of the problems I've found is that I am starting to have too many paints and they start to take over the desk. I've been branching out a bit into getting some larger craft paints for bases and scenery, and some craft inks for experimenting with. They are all bigger pots than the Vallejo and GW paints that I have generally used, and despite this picture, the carousel is overflowing. So I did a bit of google work and got some inspiration for paint storage on YouTube. Tips: Vallejo Color Paint Rack.



 Turns out that a really good option for holding onto Vallejo paint bottles is a bit of plastic designed to hold 1" conduit. Available at the hardware store for 20c each.




So it is a work in progress. I have some MDF to go down the side of the cupboard and a collection of the clips (I also got a couple of larger clips to hold some inks and derivian paints).

The position for the MDF

Three Rows holds 68 Vallejo bottles and 12 of the larger bottles.

The plan is two rows of clips screwed together across a small piece of right angle aluminium to use to mount to the MDF.

I am using the MDF rather than mounting direct to the cupboard in case I need to one day return it to its original role as a computer cupboard.





Now I am thinking about what to put at the bottom of the MDF. Maybe a tray to hold the GW paints.

And to make matters even more entertaining, the shortest piece of MDF I could get was twice as long as I needed, so I can do something similar on the right hand side of the cupboard as well. If I can think of something worthwhile.

More photos to follow as I finish up.

Popski is back

Well it's been a long time since posting and I've done a bunch of painting, but not much writing about painting.Here are some photos of the things I've painted since the Napoleonics.

Stonehaven Dwarves from their Kickstarter

More Stonehaven Dwarves

and even more More Stonehaven Dwarves

Last one finished. 10 to go.

A couple of Games Workshop minis

Fulamber and Garrick from the Reaper bones line.

Reaper Bones werewolf - more practice for the arrival of the Reaper Kickstarter

More reaper

More Reaper

Space Hulk minis

More Space Hulk minis

and more

Space Hulk Genestealers

more of the brood

 There are others, but I thought I'd set up for a different background for my Dystopian Wars fleets.

One thing that jumped out at me is how much kickstarter has influenced my painting and will continue to for the foreseeable future. Many miniatures both here and on their way.

More to follow.

Popski