"get one of those prefab sheds and have a place just for your models?"
Initially, that seemed like an excellent idea and one I should jump on before she changed her mind. The existing space is roughly 10x14 wall-to-wall, but there are benches and shelves and desks and such on all four walls so the actual usable space for the diorama is much smaller. I can barely move around a 4x5 area.
Well, by the time I priced a shed that would provide significantly more room, added in insulation, electricity, heat and light it came to enough money to realize THAT wasn't going to fly. She'd have let me spend the money, but I'd have to go outdoors to get to it and pay to keep it heated in the Winter.
Therefore, Plan B: Clean out a small pickup load of crap that should have been thrown away years ago, move some stuff around, tear out the old reloading bench that I no longer use and make the best use of the existing space.
Before ^^^
^^^After
The original diorama was built in stages and the "base" was whatever I had laying around at the time. I built a new one-piece table to put everything on and take advantage of the extra space gained to add onto it. The new 5x6 table will be rotated anti-clockwise 90° and placed more-or-less in the center of the room as soon as one or another of my offspring show up to help lift it.
Initially, that seemed like an excellent idea and one I should jump on before she changed her mind. The existing space is roughly 10x14 wall-to-wall, but there are benches and shelves and desks and such on all four walls so the actual usable space for the diorama is much smaller. I can barely move around a 4x5 area.
Well, by the time I priced a shed that would provide significantly more room, added in insulation, electricity, heat and light it came to enough money to realize THAT wasn't going to fly. She'd have let me spend the money, but I'd have to go outdoors to get to it and pay to keep it heated in the Winter.
Therefore, Plan B: Clean out a small pickup load of crap that should have been thrown away years ago, move some stuff around, tear out the old reloading bench that I no longer use and make the best use of the existing space.
Before ^^^
^^^After
The original diorama was built in stages and the "base" was whatever I had laying around at the time. I built a new one-piece table to put everything on and take advantage of the extra space gained to add onto it. The new 5x6 table will be rotated anti-clockwise 90° and placed more-or-less in the center of the room as soon as one or another of my offspring show up to help lift it.
