Tips & Tricks

On the Plastic Posse Facebook group, someone asked about hobby room/bench lighting. Thought I'd share my reply here. I'm a big big believer that light plays a significant impact on our comfort in most any space. And the warm, softer light the more the comfort. But squaring that against the reality that we need a lot of light in our hobby spaces is sometimes hard. So what I do is three things: 1. Room lights - I have several very bright LED panels (via Home Depot) and set them to the warmer setting before installing. At full blast, these three panels in my relatively small room are great. They fill light in every corner and if I'm leaning over my bench, i'm not creating a massive shadow. Bonus: I have a dimmer on those ceiling mounted lights so that I can adjust to the task. If I'm just cleaning the space, [...]

Simple tool hack that I'm starting to try: turn a large screw top pill bottle into a figure painting holder AND storage container. I drilled a small hole in the lid and stick the pin from the figure's foot through the hole. A glob of super glue locked it in place. I'm going to continue trying other things (hot glue for one) since the super glue required accelerator to stick... and even then it's really not sticking to the lid as much as creating a mechanical "lock" effect between the dried glue glob on one side of the lid and the figure's foot on the other side. If you travel and paint figures, this is a nice way to protect them!