Happy New Year to my blog followers!
For some time I've been thinking that the work space on my "Loser Shed" workbench was too small. It was fine for painting figures, but too small when constructing kits or terrain pieces.
The right hand half is where I paint figures and the left hand half is set up for airbrushing.
As you might notice, the bench is below a window, so has great natural lighting, so I wanted to keep it where it was if I could. I then had a brainwave! If I could widen the existing window sill, I could raise a lot of what's currently on the bench to a position above it. This would give me much more usable space.
I worked out that I could create a simple free standing shelf, the same height as the sill, from a single 2.4metre decking board (£8 from Wickes).
I could now lift up my painting storage and had room for an A2 cutting board to replace my old A3 one.
A quick trip to our local Dunelm store and I had some cheap storage boxes to better organise my paints, tools and modelling materials.
My compressor is now mounted more securely and I have room to mount my angle poise lamp over the airbrushing area. I've also repurposed my old spice rack to store my growing collection of airbrush formulated paints.
I've also started to buy myself some better quality modeling tools. One of which is a new set of side cutters. I've only ever used cheap (£5-10) clippers before, so I decided I needed a set of true precision cutters. The Amazon blurb for these sounded like they were what I was after....
- Precise cutting: Cutting parts with the single-edge nipper is as easy as cutting through butter, and it results in a smoother flat surface on the cut parts which minimizes whitening marks.
- Ultra-thin single-edge: The model nipper with a single-sided open edge thin blade design, high-quality chrome vanadium steel production, which allows for precise cutting and accuracy like never before.
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