In 1997 I got my first steady job and moved out of the house. It was a small rental house. The biggest room was the living room wich was about 9m2 (96.8 ft2). I had the luxery that i had a second bedroom… well there was a sliding door deviding the living room from the second bedroom. But this door made it possible to get a dedicated room for my computer and painting stuff.
And there it is, my workshop 2.0. On the right you can still see my home made paint rack with the GW Hex pots. This is also a digital picture taken from a real photograph, that why there is that reflection in the left upper corner.
On the desk: (besides the obvious things like cuting mat, hobby knife, glue, etc.) a nice drawer organizer for all the extra arms and weapons you got with all the GW kits. I still have that organizer, with mostly still the same contence (skeleton arms and weapons, goblin/orc weapons and heads, spave marines/wolves weapons, etc.) A small plastic cup to hold brushes. I even had 2 lamps; one with a magnefying part1). The stack of black things in the far corner of the table are probably stacks of Necromunda Bulkheads. Plastic parts that you could use to form the Necromunda buildings with the cartboard components of the base set. Necromunda is a scirmish game from GW with small warbands in the 40K universe.
On the shelves you can see all kinds of stuff, like basing materials (in the white tubs), spray cans (rattle cans) with paints (mainly primer), a cup with spare brushes (I like to have a good inventory of spare hobby stuff around), and boxes with mini’s. And just to inform you: on the left side, next to my painting table (not visible on the photo) where 2 drawer units (stacked on top of each other) with a few more boxes of mini’s. By the time I moved out of this house into my workshop 3.0, I found out that I had at least 5 boxes of Night Goblins in those drawers instead of the 1 or 2 I thought I had….
On the right side, top shelf, you can still see some small flasks with terpentine (white spirit) and thinner. I still had a few pots of Revell paint. Only I did not use them for my mini’s. I had a nice collection of Nerf guns in those days (yes I was just 42 years young at that moment…) and wanted to paint them all in a copper color.. It was my steampunk period… what ended a year later as I was no longer able to enjoy my apocalipical LARP anymore due to things at work…
So it was 2012 when I moved from the city (ahum) to the countryside into my “little” house that I live in right now. Working on a bigger workshop… Workshop 3.0
1) In those days I had regulary a bad back. And i used the magnifying lamp to keep me sit straight up. I did put it close to my face so I could not bend over the table and hurt my back. This also made me hold the models up in the air, while I rested my elbow on the table. Something I have not seen much painters do. Most painters rest their wrists on the table and paint with the mini almost on the table. Painting handles where something I did not know about in those days, so I always held the mini by the base.