The New Studio

Where do I create all my miniatures and general Warhammer stuff?

Well, I have two rooms, in a renovated 1950’s farm cottage in rural New Zealand, dedicated to my creative pursuits. One is my pro design studio space and the room featured in this post, with paint splattered floor, is my creative space for hobby and art painting in general.

It took me a month to renovate all the rooms I needed initially, just a large lounge to finish off. But finally, I had two rooms filled with handmade items, graphic design decor and usual items of absurdism that surround designers. My favourite being a vintage typography tray, where molded typeface print keys were kept in the printing press days – I have way too many of these.

After a couple of years, I moved all my design gear into one room and dedicated the the above space as my hobby room. So, what are we looking at?

Left to right; Designer faff chair then handmade drawers by a retired woodcrafter I hired to support local business (this has all my models in each drawer) atop which The Axe Bite Mob sit right now as I reorganise the army (organising goblins is such a paradox).

Next to that, shelving kit for my bits boxes (all semi-transparent trays) a few figures out for prepping new regiments, all the black containers with yellow lids are holding stored projects, terrain and game boxes. Atop all this is my accounting archives, a miniature case, a spare commercial art canvas, spare keyboards for staff – alongside a tower of boxes holding IT gear.

Being a MAC studio, I have a plethora of Apple product boxes to be destined to hold vignettes like this one.

And yes, thats big to small in size. (look forward to posting these)

I move the mat around wherever I am working as it proves the ultimate bits catcher if something falls.