Today I managed to finish (maybe not, not 100% sure yet) the paint racks I began building some time ago.
In the end, I followed my friend's advice (thank you Tomas!) and mixed the paint rack with the devices I was gonna build to hold my brushes and modelling files.
The idea for the brushes and files holders was more or less the same that you can see here, only appart, and with a base.
Part of the design I made for these racks, was the gradient in the paint pot holders, to easier the search of the colours (easier to see the colour names). The other thing I had in mind, was to make the racks able to hide some things, to have some space to keep some tools beneath. Lastly, the other thing I thought was that the rack shouldn't have walls in the sides, to facilite their transport (you can grab the entire rack introducing your hands in the sides of the rack!).
I said I'm not really sure if I've finished my racks or not. That's because I was going to build the same device from the first rack (for the brushes and files) on the second one, but then I realized that 43 spots was enough for both all my brushes and modelling files, and also for some new brushes in the near future. So, I have the last rank of the second rack, ready to get more pot holders. Eight more holders, making a total of 128 paint pots spots (being 16 octets wide sounds better, doesn't it? xD). I don't really know if I should put the additional 8 holders or not. Maybe I can figure out something better in the future. Or read about a better idea to use that space. What do you think, more holders, nothing, something else?
As you can see over there, those are empty paint pots. Yep, I finally bought 120 Plysu paint pots, to transfer all my paint to these marvelous pots. I've explained why these pots are absolutely superior to the GW ones, and better than the empty dropper bottles, a while ago. I managed to buy them in the british store that wouldn't send me the pots to my country, thanks to my Austausch-Schwester Susanne, who bought them in Germany, received them and sent them to me. I was able to make this move also with the help of my friend Claudio, who borrowed me his paypal account in order to pay Susi for the pots and the shipping costs!
Short story, I was finishing working on the racks today, when the mail truck arrived with the package. Another amazing delivery from the Deutsche Post. It took them less than 9 days to deliver my package to me.
Yep, LOTS of empty paint pots and their tops! =3
Finally, another WIP. This would hopefully be my desktop. I sanded the deck today and I plan to vitrify it tomorrow. And that's one of my dogs, a wire-hair-terrier called Hermo, just passing over my work. xD
I still have to get rid of these wood parts nailed underneath the deck.
The legs are already finished, and have 2 coats of polyurethane. I'll finish vitrifying them tomorrow.
Hopefully, I'll be showing the finished desktop soon.
That's for now, please don't forget to tell me what you think about the second paint rack!
See ya!
