Christmas time is quickly approaching ..

 Christmas is almost here and the end of my other tasks as well ..  This past month has been filled with Holiday events and sickness .. lots of sickness sadly but when all that wasn't happening I've also been working on the toy boxes for my kids and my niece. They are almost done. My Son's box is mostly done .. just have to mount the hinges. And the other two are now ready to mount the backs. I was hoping to stain them but with sickness eating up two weeks there's no way that will happen now. After Christmas I'll stain them up..

 The two were were gluing last night so today they will be ready to wrap up. I have over 20 clamps and I've used every single one on these haha... it's crazy. I still needed about 10 more ..

Thankfully I should be on schedule for completion! .. After Christmas is over I'll need a whole day to get my painting room back in order. That room has been jammed with decorations, presents and toy boxes.. I couldn't have painted even if I had the time.. So soon I should be back in the normal mix. 8)

Frozen Wars

 Tomorrow is my Daughters birthday and we are having her party at the house. It will be a Frozen Princess party.. I know you are excited but also jealous. haha.. I thought it would be cool to make the kids all some sort of ornament. Besides my Son there will be a few boys that will be coming along with there Sisters so I wanted to hook them up. I made all the boys a Star Wars Ornament with their names on it. But for my boy I made the Rebel and Imperial symbols.. I think they came out pretty cool..  I showed them first so people weren't like Frozen Ornaments ?! wtf.. haha

 But..  for the girls I made them all an Ornament with Elsa on it. I think they came out looking pretty cool. Jocelyn will also get an Anna .. it's her birthday and hey she's my kid 8) .. Every little girl seems to love Frozen and with it being a Frozen Princess Party I thought it made sense..

 I also made some snowflakes which I cut out of blue trans plexi and tonight I'll be handing them from the ceiling so when she comes down in the morning they'll all be hanging up.

This weekend I'm going to cut some more stuff for Christmas but I'm also going to cut the storage compartment that will go under the paint rack. Hopefully I'll have some pictures ready to show next week.

Tier it Up...

 I hope everyone has had a good start to the Holiday season and haven't already started getting stressed out. I've been busy as of late on non hobby related stuff, honestly I haven't even been on in Internetz much. But this weekend I had to cut some stuff for my Daughter's birthday party and I had extra time on the laser so I cut the tiered rack I was working on. I wanted the tiered rack for models and paints so I was trying to combine them together.Originally I wanted it to be in the larger rack as well but there was no decent way to combine them together.

I combined almost three whole shelves to one with the rack. I'm pretty happy with the way it looks and once it's painted it should really look good. I'll be making at least two more to hold additional models.

 I cut the first paint rack with larger holes to see how it worked and for me they are a little too big. But this would hold 60 paints, this will fit GW and P3 paints plus some others. I'll be making smaller holed shelves for Vallejo and Golden which will then hold more paints. I haven't made up those shelves yet to know how many but I'm thinking at least 5 more per level.

 On the small back shelf I added holes for your brushes, files or tools of the correct size.

 Here is a few of the as I put it together pictures. It didn't take too long and when dry is crazy sturdy (due to awesome designing! well probably more for the crazy power of the Gorilla Glue). I figured out a few things I'm going to add to make it even more sturdy but because. It's just a few things and thankfully the first cut was completely successful.

 Tiers for the solid model steps ..

 In process of building..

 Empty paint racks..

 Here is a better shot of the paint brush or tool holder section..

I had to get more MDF and then I had to cut it down to size to use it in the laser cutter. That was over an hour of total awesome fun. No one else was available to help me cut it on the table saw so I had to be careful not to cut off a finger .. so .. fun. You know.. for kids..