New Work Space

Here you see my new bench and file cabinet.

The file cabinet if Office Depot brand and, unlike the Staples brand, is painted inside and out, and cost $139. The bench is from Lowes and slots together like a bed frame. The only screws are a few nuts and bolts to hold the peg board in place. It cost $79 at Lowes. I put rubber castor cups under each leg to protect the carpet with cost an addition $1.29 for the set of four at Lowes. Curiously enough, the brand name of the bench is “Waterloo” and the kit comes with a decal—how could I not affix it? The mesh baskets (a set of the three you see) were $10, the loops for hanging pliers were four for $.95 (I bought two packages), and the stool was $10. These were all bought at Wal-Mart. Just in case you haven’t been keeping up, that was a total cost of $348. Of course, almost half of that was the file cabinet. Yikes, those things are expensive! Still, I’m thinking about getting another file cabinet. A short one to put next to the bench on the right side to provide additional file space (I filled the four-drawer in a heartbeat with gaming junk—I need some file space for normal junk) and it would add some additional flat space.

On top of the file cabinet is the complete Reaper Master Paint series, the complete line of Adikolor paints, and a ton of Vallejo Napoleonic, WWII colors and oddments. The tall green bottle is cheap Apple Barrel paint from Wal-Mart; the base coat color for my basing. What you actually see on the table are the Navigator Carthaginians. The riders have had the Xyston leaf tipped spears affixed and holes drilled to accept pinning to the horses. The horses are all drilled to accept pins. I’m still debating whether to affix the shields before priming or not. The elephants are assembled and joints have been epoxy puttied and blended. The howdahs are taped together and the epoxy inside the joints is curing.

All, in all a very productive weekend. I knocked out a major chunk of my Systems Engineering on-line course, bought and assembled the bench, bought and filled the file cabinet. I even did some work on the Carthos!