The Modelling Table

In response to a request from Peter Douglas, here is my modelling/painting area in all it's glory!

Occupying the window end of my 'toy room', the Formica-topped table began life in my parents' kitchen in the '60s, and has been my modelling table for 30 years!  It's matching chairs perished in the 1970s.  At 2x3 feet, it is also the ideal size for pasting wallpaper - a role it has performed in at least four houses (most recently last week!).  No doubt it will collapse in a heap at some point, but I see no point in seeking a replacement until that happens.  The chair was liberated during an office clearance, as indeed were the bin and metal drawers (albeit different offices).  The Anglepoise lamp is at least 30 years old and uses a 'daylight' bulb.

The metal drawers to the left of the table contain various bits including balsa wood, some works in progress and (in the top two) tools. 

In the corner of the room lurks this 30cm wide cabinet (from Ikea) in which I store flock, decals, glue and my reserve stock of paintbrushes.

Perched atop the cabinet is this drawer unit which escaped from my father's office in the early 70s.  Following a long career of toy car storage it now accommodates paint.  The separate tray on the top (from JR's attic) is filled with Vallejo paints.  Does anyone know what 'Dewhurst's Sylko' was?

Increasingly sidelined by the Vallejo upstarts, the Humbrol acrylics (actually all my paints are acrylics).

Most of my books are in other rooms, but I keep a few to hand depending on what I'm painting.

A toy room essential - sound!  Some of these components are probably antiques by now.  The Cambridge Audio DAB tuner is a mere stripling of only ten summers while the CD player dates from 1993.  The amp and cassette deck (my apologies to younger readers who may be baffled by such things) date from 1983...