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These you have seen before but only in a quick snapshot when I was getting them set up and clearing a few bits out in the shed.
The paint racks are a bespoke design, created to fit snugly inside a 40cm wide Ikea Billy bookcase. Coronasan designed these for me and they were cut by Jim at Products For Wargamers.
As my paint collection contains everything from modern dropper bottles, right through to both old and new citadel pots, I wanted a flat shelf like unit that was not going to restrict the placement of pots in anyway.
Now on each of my shelves I can get 60+ pots to a rack and still see what colour I want, and actually read the name on the pot in many cases, at a glance.
As I am not a very tall gentleman (no rude comments please) I am making use of the higher shelf to store spray cans and, as a happy little accident, the glass shelves allow me to see what I actually have up there if I store them upside down… Nice!
I have also just decanted all my artists inks into small dropper bottles that are easier to store but don’t have room for these on the shelves so will need yet another box to store these little used items in. I find these inks are great for painting MDF buildings but haven’t got any more of these in the painting queue at the moment.
Steinberg Shed Space 
Now we see the real reason for getting a new shed – a bigger, very well organised paint storage area! 🙂 Very neat! I think you have more paint pots/jars/bottles than I have painted figures!
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Paint storage is only half of it. Now, if I could only find a neat little place to keep all my dead, dying and retired brushes…
Before you say it… Maybe that should be the bin!
Are you reluctant to throw them out too (just in case they may come in handy sometime) or is it just me?
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I don’t have a ton of them, but I do find it tough to move an over-used WinsorNewton into the Drybrush bin. I tend to just keep working with them for a long time. Cheap synthetic brushes are harder to work with once they go bad, so I have no qualms about ditching them into the dry brush bin or outright tossing them if they are crap.
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I’m usually very reluctant to throw out paint brushes, so it’s not just you! 🙂
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You have a very nice hobby area.
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Thanks Ann its nice to have a bit if space just solely for my own use. I probably don’t fully appreciate just how lucky I am to have this space, but isn’t it a sad fact that we tend not to notice these things and take them for granted. I can see from your posts that you are appreciating your wild spaces more these days. Makes me want to try to get out more in my local area (sadly the cold, damp and lockdown are restricting these things at the moment). One day, soon…
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Yes, I know what you mean. Both my husband and I are fortunate enough to have hobby rooms/offices as well and I think sometimes I take it all for granted.
Well, to be honest I’ve always appreciated the wild spaces, I just hadn’t been writing about it on my blog. I started writing about it more since my painting when into a bit of a drought and with the pandemic a lot of the other things I would like to write about, such as gaming, I can’t because I’m not really doing any.
It is somewhat cold and damp here as well, though compared to the New England winters I grew up with, Santa Cruz, California is pretty much summer year round, lol. Fortunately too, going out into nature is one thing we can still do, even with the lockdown rules.
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Very smart- I’m rather jealous in fact.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Its my own, small, bit of quiet in an otherwise busy word…
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He is a very tidy chappy,some might say a but anal🤩
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Amazing setup there! I carved out a space for painting/hobbying in our new house, and it’s been really nice. It’s nowhere near as nice (or neat) looking as yours, but it beats not having a dedicated space! 🙂
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Trust me, it’s only tidy once a month or so. Usually only when I run out of space and have to have a go at clearing most of the desk off again.
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