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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8875147" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>I'm old school - I've never actually tried "slapchop" before. On the other hand, I mainly paint for display instead of gaming.</p><p></p><p>Since I haven't been painting in quite some time, due to lack of inspiration for most of the year and currently due to it being too cold in the house to paint, this is my particular mini-related project at the mo...</p><p></p><p> As the saying goes, there's no such thing as too many miniatures, just not enough storage, lol.</p><p></p><p>This is the original shadowbox that's been hanging on my bedroom wall for decades.... (Hell, this <em>picture</em> of it is twenty years old, lol.) Obviously, it's a generic shadowbox, clearly not originally meant to display minis.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]270995[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>It's about 20-in. tall, 18-in. wide, and has basically nine shelves on it. And it's currently <em>packed to the gills</em> with figures - I have essentially the entire run of the old Ral Partha AD&D 11-xxx Adventurers series on it as well as the Grenadier box sets 6003 Elves of the Sylvan Brotherhood, 2018 Female Adventurers (2 complete sets, although they're lined up behind the other) and half of 5002 Monsters, plus about two dozen other random figures. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p><p></p><p>So, I'm making a new one. It's going to be 28-in. tall, 22-in. wide, in a cherry finish, and have eleven functional shelves on it with 2 inches of space in between them. Rather than split the shelves into individual boxes I'm just going to have two evenly spaced interior vertical dividers/supports, so the shelves will be divided into thirds which will let me position the figures any way I want them.</p><p></p><p>Currently, I've got the wood cut for the shelves, and am in the process of cutting the back piece out of plywood.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]270996[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>It's going to take a while to finish, since I'm doing it <em><strong>entirely with hand tools</strong></em>, and rather than cutting the two interior supports into little pieces, I'm going to notch both them and the horizontal shelves so that they're interlaced. I'm also currently job-hunting at the moment, so I don't have a lot of free time during the hours when it's warm enough in my basement to work on it (I'm currently without heat in the house). But I'm planning to try to post WIP updates as I complete steps or at least once a week in order to try to keep motivated on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8875147, member: 6750306"] I'm old school - I've never actually tried "slapchop" before. On the other hand, I mainly paint for display instead of gaming. Since I haven't been painting in quite some time, due to lack of inspiration for most of the year and currently due to it being too cold in the house to paint, this is my particular mini-related project at the mo... As the saying goes, there's no such thing as too many miniatures, just not enough storage, lol. This is the original shadowbox that's been hanging on my bedroom wall for decades.... (Hell, this [I]picture[/I] of it is twenty years old, lol.) Obviously, it's a generic shadowbox, clearly not originally meant to display minis. [ATTACH type="full" width="178px"]270995[/ATTACH] It's about 20-in. tall, 18-in. wide, and has basically nine shelves on it. And it's currently [I]packed to the gills[/I] with figures - I have essentially the entire run of the old Ral Partha AD&D 11-xxx Adventurers series on it as well as the Grenadier box sets 6003 Elves of the Sylvan Brotherhood, 2018 Female Adventurers (2 complete sets, although they're lined up behind the other) and half of 5002 Monsters, plus about two dozen other random figures. :rolleyes: So, I'm making a new one. It's going to be 28-in. tall, 22-in. wide, in a cherry finish, and have eleven functional shelves on it with 2 inches of space in between them. Rather than split the shelves into individual boxes I'm just going to have two evenly spaced interior vertical dividers/supports, so the shelves will be divided into thirds which will let me position the figures any way I want them. Currently, I've got the wood cut for the shelves, and am in the process of cutting the back piece out of plywood. [ATTACH type="full" width="350px"]270996[/ATTACH] It's going to take a while to finish, since I'm doing it [I][B]entirely with hand tools[/B][/I], and rather than cutting the two interior supports into little pieces, I'm going to notch both them and the horizontal shelves so that they're interlaced. I'm also currently job-hunting at the moment, so I don't have a lot of free time during the hours when it's warm enough in my basement to work on it (I'm currently without heat in the house). But I'm planning to try to post WIP updates as I complete steps or at least once a week in order to try to keep motivated on it. [/QUOTE]
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