New model room

[Tim Marlow]

With each 'cube' easily accommodating a hundred albums that's 2400 albums!! WoW!!



Nice to see Kallax being suited for purpose


Miko (mine is a more modest couple of hundred albums)

They hold about 75 each when full, so only about 1500 . Mind you, I have around 400 CDs as well. Most of them were bought second hand during the nineties for 25 to 50p each when everyone was ditching them wholesale.

[stillp]

when everyone was ditching them wholesale.

They still are Tim! 5 for £1 in most of the charity shops round here. I bought a load, just before I changed my car for one without a CD player...
Pete

[Miko]

Ikea modular units are certainly perfect for us modellers.

They still are Tim! 5 for £1 in most of the charity shops round here. I bought a load, just before I changed my car for one without a CD player...
Pete

You have a car with a built in record player??? Wow!!

The advancement of digital disc media technology came and went in such a short space of time, who would have thought vinyl records would out live CD DVD and Bluray?

Miko (driven by nostalgia)

[Tim Marlow]

You have a car with a built in record player??? Wow!!

The advancement of digital disc media technology came and went in such a short space of time, who would have thought vinyl records would out live CD DVD and Bluray?

Miko (driven by nostalgia)

40 odd years isn’t that short Miko.

[stillp]

Don't start me on vinyl, I still haven't finished converting a few hundred albums to MP3.
Wait ten years or so and the equivalent of today's hipsters will be saying that you just can't beat the sound of a vintage CD...
Pete

[Tim Marlow]

They still are Tim! 5 for £1 in most of the charity shops round here. I bought a load, just before I changed my car for one without a CD player...
Pete

I was talking about records rather than CDs, but I know what you mean Pete. Charity shops around here won’t take CDs or DVDs any more.

[Tim Marlow]

Don't start me on vinyl, I still haven't finished converting a few hundred albums to MP3.
Wait ten years or so and the equivalent of today's hipsters will be saying that you just can't beat the sound of a vintage CD...
Pete

That will take a big leap mate, CDs were flawed right from the off. They simply don’t have enough bandwidth to resolve the treble end properly, so sound harsh and grainy on good equipment. Treble on vinyl is far superior. Bass is great though, much more controlled on CD than vinyl. SACD was the best over all, but never really took off as streaming (transistor radio quality MP3) came in soon after.

[stillp]

I tried to get rid of a pile of VHS tapes last year. Not even the local recycling centre would take them, they had to go in the mixed waste skip.

At least I've managed to get virtually all of my Mum's 8mm cine films digitised - great fun watching films shot in the late 50s and 60s.
Pete

[Guest]

You have a car with a built in record player??? Wow!!

You say that as if it’s a newfangled contraption.

[Scratchbuilder]

England scored 7 goals so you'd think she'd have stayed awake (she is the football fan, not me) but I'm sure she has a form of narcolepsy :smiling5:

Come the evening she can fall asleep mid conversation. I'm sure I'm not that boring... :tears-of-joy:

I have one like that, on goes the animal program and I'm sitting there wondering why the Swan is snoring....

[Tim Marlow]

You say that as if it’s a newfangled contraption.

Laurel and Hardy have one in the 1932 short “Towed in a hole” Jakko. It plays 78s :tongue-out3:

[Andy T]

The extra bookcase & shelves finally came into stock and arrived yesterday. After some juggling around the room is finally done.

For now anyway. I'm sure this will only be Mk1, and it'll likely evolve over time, but I'm happy just to crack on and throw some models together

Overall view:



Photography area, where everything can be packed away and become another build area or somewhere for my son to work if he ever gets time off revising for his A levels.
There's also room for a 3d printer etc if I ever make the leap:



Main build area with my most used tools in the drawer by my side or just a short reach across the desk:




Painting / decal / weathering area:



And the airbrush bit:



Yes I'm aware it's an indulgance, and you don't need a swanky room to have fun building models, but it's my little sanctuary away from the pressures of everyday life and I hope to have many happy hours in here :smiling3:

[BattleshipBob]

Who cares as long as YOU are happy! Looks very well planned and executed Andy. Proper job!

We will be moving after the probate is done, so I will be having my own room where I can do the lot!!

[Guest]

That definitely is an upgrade from a shed in which the water for cleaning your brushes occasionally freezes

[adt70hk]

So very, very jealous!! Hope you enjoy it!!

Andrew