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Please post a photo of a paint shelf that youve made!

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  • Member since
    February 2007
Posted by mitsdude on Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:45 PM

Sorry no photo but I have a "stair step" rack just like Noah T except mine is four steps and four feet long. No investment, just built out of scrap lumber. I store my MM, Tamiya, Vallejo, etc. type paints on it.

For craft paints I use a rotating metal wire rack that holds 80 bottles on each of two sides. The manager at my local Michaels sold it to me for $5. They were moving to a new location and he was practically giving stuff away the last two days so he wouldn't have to inventory and move it to the new location,

I think it survived being bought because it was "out of box" in the flower department and looked like part of the stores fixtures. They had a sign that said none of that stuff was for sale. I recognized it because I'd been eyeing it but did want to spend $45.

 

 

  • Member since
    July 2010
  • From: Surrey B.C. Canada
Posted by Subhuman1 on Friday, October 18, 2013 2:53 AM

This is an earlier shot of a cabinet I started working on to hold paints, tools, airbrushes etc. These shots are kind of at a funny angle, as the cabinet is on it's side right now while I work on the insides of it.

This first shot is from a few weeks ago, and shows the cabinet, with drawers roughed in, and the first two thirds of the paint shelves partially installed......

A better shot of the paint shelves...

The drawers...

Jump ahead to this past weekend, the drawer fronts just starting to go on


An updated shot of the paint shelves on the inside right of the cabinet, fronts added, and extra aluminum angle added to stiffen them up...



As well, got a start on the door for this beast...

And a shot trying to look through one of the portholes on the door...

I am trying to make use of all the scraps in the garage from other projects and keep the costs down to an absolute minimum, so you will notice things like the drawer faces have patterns in the wood grain that don't line up perfectly, because they where cut from separate pieces that sort of resembled being related to each other. 

Still have the drawer fronts to finish off, and one more piece of facing o the paint shelves at the bottom of the top half of this unit, hardware to add on, lighting. Door has to be finished off with a rack to hold my air brushes on the inside, beside the porthole windows. and the bottom half of the door will be used to home my straight edges and rulers and such,that are to long to fit in the drawers.

The second shot gives you a good idea how the shelves are laid out, inside the cabinet  they are about 50 linear inches long, with the one on the bottom of the upper cabinet being about 45". Each with a double height. So in the 31/4" depth of each shelf there is about 1&5/8th of an inch to each shelf, enough for a small round Tamiya bottle, Testor MM bottle, Vallejo Humbrol tin etc. And for the smaller Testors bottles a second rise can be added to any length of shelf and you can fit two rows of them. 

And if anyone is curious, that deal with all the square holes in the shots with the paint shelves, that is for holding brushes, to be divided into four separate sections, oils, acrylics, enamels and water (my catch all or misc.) I already had little brass plates engraved for marking each area. Big Smile









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