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A photo of my miniature painting table. It's a piece of wood 900mm by 600mm, raised up at the front and back so there's a gap underneath it, and towards the front of it is a rectangular wooden arch that's covered in LED strip lighting so the table itself is really brightly lit. At the back are all the paint pots spread over two levels.

Made a few more modifications to my painting table this morning! I attached an extra piece of wood to the front of the top of the arch and moved the LED strips that had been pointing directly out at me—or were at the very back and not really contributing much—to underneath the new piece so they're pointing straight down towards what I'm painting. The entire arch was also moved forwards so I get more of the light, and it's now significantly more rigid as well.

I hadn't taken any photos of it previously, but after I'd added the second level to store paints on at the end of last year, I also put a set of strip lights underneath that too to light up the bottom level a little more.

Posted on 15 April 2022, 12:57

A photo of a white metal outdoor table with various tools on it (drill, square, screws, pencil, etc.) and my painting table sitting on its side with its bottom exposed. There's a number of shiny new screws visible where I've drilled in from the bottom to reinforce the base to the dividing sections that are on top.

Doing some reinforcing on my painting table this morning. The original solution of Liquid Nails and some small actual nails wasn't holding up in places (I have no idea why I didn't just use screws to begin with, but anyway, it's definitely rock-solid now).

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Posted on 3 January 2022, 11:56

A photo of my DIY painting table that sits on the dining room table. There's a section at the back that all the paints live in, and there's now a second level above it so I can spread the paints out now.

And done! Super-happy with how this came out.

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Posted on 31 December 2021, 17:47

A photo of an white metal outdoor table with several pieces of wood in various states of being cut on it, along with a circular saw and a jigsaw, as well as earmuffs, and a mask,

Continuing with my theme of productive New Years Eve, this time I'm doing some woodworking! Making a second level for my painting table so I've got more room to put my paints, because I'm very much running out of room at this point.

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Posted on 31 December 2021, 13:53

A photo of my DIY miniature painting table setup, it's made of wood and has a rectangular arch over it with a bunch of white LED strip lights attached to the inside of it. There's also two rows of the lights pointing directly forwards at the camera because of the aforementioned running out of room on the underside.

The LED strip lights on my painting table can be cut and connected together with this connector that comes in the package, but the connection is really flaky and my latest additions started cutting out (I'd used the leftover bit from one of the previous packages). 😞 So I decided I'd just go and get another full five metre pack and use it all without chopping it. It's come out pretty nicely and everything's noticeably brighter, though one downside is that I ran out of room along the underside of the arch. Some of it's facing directly forwards which means I'm not quite getting the full benefit of ALL of it pointing down at what I'm painting but ah well. It's fine as long as I don't look directly at it. 😛

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Posted on 7 May 2021, 20:52

I decided I needed EVEN MOAR LIGHT for my painting table, so somewhat-dodgily attached another larger piece of wood to the top of the arch and bought yet another set of LED strip lighting to attach to it.

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Posted on 19 January 2021, 20:25