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Post by ira on Nov 30, 2014 17:32:22 GMT -5
Steve and Ira (and some of the other guys) got me thinking ... "Wouldn't it be cool if someone, somewhere, made decorative wallpaper that looked like all kinds of cool boxed kits, stacked up in huge piles?" I don't mean computer-style wallpaper, intended for a person's screen. (Although any of these shots we're seeing could almost work for that purpose! A bit of re-sizing, to fit a person's screen size in pixels, and...!) When I say wallpaper, I mean the old-style stuff that used to be how people decorated the bare walls of a room, decades ago. The big pre-printed sheets with patterns or images on them, which you glue to the walls of a room; instead of just painting a room's walls like most people do, these days. I can't see anyone doing it as a commercial enterprise ... but in "what if" mode, just to "dream" about how cool it might be...? My work area's walls are all heavily textured, so even if something like that wallpaper did exist, I couldn't use it in my shop areas ... but hey, that doesn't keep me from doing a bit of brain-storming, to riff off of the main idea. I suppose one "actually do-able" alternative would be to take print-outs of someone's scanned-in box art, and to glue or tape those print-outs onto something like a sheet of heavy card stock or foam-core, to make big wall-art posters that a person could hang up. If you had several of them, all at a standard size, you could have some small-headed nails or something, to hang them up on. Swap them out whenever you pleased. Sorta like changing out a calendar, once in a while. Anyway ... just rambling, due to "overload" from seeing all the cool pics other people are posting! Keep those cool pics coming, guys!  |
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Post by Fletch on Nov 30, 2014 22:22:34 GMT -5
Hey Ward - you would think somebody would have done that already. My old business cards were kinda like that.
Also here is another tiny portion of my closet wall with the ray guns and robots and car books.Attachment DeletedAttachment Deleted |
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Post by Fletch on Dec 2, 2014 11:54:15 GMT -5
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Post by wardster on Dec 4, 2014 20:39:38 GMT -5
"Please, fellow board members, may we have more work space pix?!? Pretty please?"  |
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Post by Fletch on Dec 14, 2014 12:35:19 GMT -5
Any more members want to share? Go ahead and take a snapshot - it won't hurt!
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Post by wardster on Dec 15, 2014 20:47:26 GMT -5
I'll go, again. I've been adding some mini-posters -- and some "full sized" ones, too -- to my shop's formerly bare-and-boring walls. I didn't realize how boring the walls actually were, until I had (A.) de-cluttered the room itself, and (B.) saw the cool photos you guys had uploaded. So, after seeing how much cool stuff many of you guys had surrounded yourselves with, I decided to do something in the same spirit.  Here's a closer view, on my main working area. This one being more or less an "as you sit there" view.  Some of the "mini-posters" are actually things I cut out of the cool book, "How to Draw Crazy Cars and Mad Monsters Like a Pro". I removed the binding first. I used an old, mostly-worn-out belt sander's heavy-grit sanding belt on it, to gently take it down to just past the edge of the binding's glue. (Gumming up the "almost dead anyway" belt, in the process.) I'm told that in larger cities, a person can just take a book into some place like Kinko's Copy shop, and they can cut a book's binding off. To me it was well worth cutting up that one copy of the book, to be able to use it as a stack of really nifty miniature posters, instead. (And yes, I already ordered another copy of the book, to use "just as a book".) Other things seen here are postcards; computer print-outs of things scanned from books or downloaded from the I'net, etc. One of my favorite new additions is a doubled-in-size-now, three-panel comic strip showing Calvin (from "Calvin and Hobbes") in his recurring role as "Spaceman Spiff". His flying saucer is on fire and heading for a crash landing -- (as it often is, with Mr. Spiff) -- and the upsized comic strip fit just fine in the available space. And the imagery definitely fits the overall mood, too. I still have to do something to the left side of that work space; but the middle and right side, I'm pretty happy with for now. I've given my tall, thin industrial rack a "chop top" of sorts, since the first pics ... but I'll save any pics of that, for later on. |
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Post by wardster on Dec 17, 2014 0:18:59 GMT -5
Still no pics from other board members? Well, I guess we'll have to work on that.  (Please!?!) Meanwhile, here's another update pic: showing some recent upgrade work being done in my shop areas.  Mainly, this is just showing the newly decorated wall spaces, on the left side of my main work area ... but I figured I'd also take a few moments to mention some changes I made to the tall industrial rack system I had, as seen in earlier pics. I'm breaking in a much larger monitor, set up on the new "top" surface of the newly-cut-down or "chop top" industrial rack. I had made some measurements and such, some time back, so that I could (a) fit a larger monitor in there; and (b) could either face the monitor straight forward, for use with the occasional video game or whatever; or (c) can now turn the much-larger monitor sideways, to face the main workbench. Before, I had to turn the whole rack around. Being able to just rotate the monitor is sssooooooo much faster and easier than before! I'm showing the new set-up being broken in, with the latest cool DVD set made by "Spritz by Fritz". If you haven't already picked up any of Fritz's DVD sets, I think they're all well worth having. He works hard to give you motivation / encouragement to actually go try doing the stuff he is showing on his how-to's on; and he has boatloads of money- and time-saving tips and tricks and other helpful info, packed into all four of the prior DVD sets. This one's already proving to be that same way. Three discs in this set! Great stuff so far! I'm havin' a blast breaking in the "new" room ... and being able to watch a brand-new DVD set, on the new monitor, is sweet! Lotta guys here already know all about it, but if you don't: here's his web site, where you can pick up any of his DVD sets: www.spritzbyfritz.com/ |
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Post by modelcarjedi on Dec 31, 2014 12:59:32 GMT -5
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Post by TooOld on Dec 31, 2014 21:22:59 GMT -5
Now that one looks just about perfect for me !  |
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Post by jimbertges on Jan 1, 2015 14:48:30 GMT -5
Now THAT'S a workbench! Just awesome.
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Post by Fletch on Jan 1, 2015 16:17:57 GMT -5
Yea modelcarjedi - that is one long workbench! Thanks for putting up the pix!
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Post by knarf on Jan 1, 2015 21:26:50 GMT -5
ok, i'll chime in here. but i'll do ya one better with a vid but i'm told it should be watched without volume because my light and breathing are kinda loud   |
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Post by modelcarjedi on Jan 1, 2015 21:30:46 GMT -5
ok, i'll chime in here. but i'll do ya one better with a vid but i'm told it should be watched without volume because my light and breathing are kinda loud 24 feet long! I had it covered in 1/32 scale slot car track at one time. The original bench was 8' long then things went haywire |
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Post by wardster on Jan 2, 2015 4:08:53 GMT -5
"Haywire" is awesome! We love haywire! Thanks for posting those pics! |
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Post by barten on Jan 18, 2015 8:29:38 GMT -5
So this was my old work space. . . working on my grandfathers old table. With horse wall paper in a basement room. It was a real nice space where i could close the door to my mess. . .I mean creativity. I'm a messy person. . . I wish I could be like Bobby, and be so clean and organized. . . but wow just not designed that way.   We found mold in the basement. . . and gutted it . .   treated it. . . started rebuilding it into one big room instead of three small rooms. . . . And I lost my build space. . . . .shoot. . . . So this is what I'm working on for my new build space. . . . converting the shed. This is where it sits.     It is getting so close. . .. I will keep all my treasured stuff stuff in the house. But this is going to be my new build area. I just have to get two display case in there then cut to fit into place ( I can't move them they are heavy), some trim around the windows and door. some sort of floor treatment, motion lights on the outside and a new deadbolt on the door. I can then start moving in. . . I can't wait. |
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