03/02/2024

Happy Saturday! I was in the process of cleaning up my office and rearranging it to accommodate the new resin printer/cure station. I thought now would be a good time to share what my crafting area looks like.

Here is the main desk. I have four nail polish holders that I use to hold all of my different paints and inks. There are standard model paints, cheap craft paints for terrain, Army Painter Speed Paints (my new favorite), and acrylic inks. I do have a bubble popper that I got for $5 at a craft show but I recently got an Easter Bunny one from Dollar General for $1. Three LED lamps provide enough light for me to see what I am doing.

On my right side is a set of orange drawers that hold all of my wooden bits, plastic bits from Halloween decorations and such, and extra craft paints. On the table are a couple of sets of drawers that hold all of the things I use a lot like exacto knives and blades, super glue, gems, beads, sponges, etc. The blue-green cart holds my tools, large bottles of craft paints, Mod Podge, paper plates, etc.

Past the table is a shelf that holds my Proxxon and airbrush (which I really need to start using more).

To my left is my drawers for glue guns and glue, extra paint brushes, and tea lights.

Right behind my desk is a doorway. To the right are the drawers that hold things I don’t need all of the time or that are large. I have my 2″ and 3″ wooden disks, wooden cubes, Jenga pieces, more beads, wire, and paper cups that I use for washes and epoxy.

To the left of the doorway is my printer table. I have my new Mercury Plus Clean/Cure station (I haven’t used it yet), my Mars 3 Resin Printer (currently printing out the initial test piece), and my old reliable Ender 3 Pro with Raspberry Pi 4b (running OctoPrint) and a webcam.

I also have a shelf that holds all of my Benchys (I run a new one for every new color I try), some of the models that I don’t want to be damaged or that my wife has used in campaigns. I even have one of my internal security cameras pointing at my Ender 3 so I can see the amount of filament I have before I start a remote printing job using the OctoPrint service.

Keep on gaming!