New dedicated hobby room!

[keyda81]

So for quite some time my modeling bench has been in the bedroom. It was alright when it was just my bench and the paint booth. Sometime near the end of 2024 we moved another desk up there to house my printer, laptop and Cricut. Little tight, but manageable. The fiance got me a 3D printer for xmas, and I could still fit everything, but the bedroom was feeling rather cramped, and it was annoying me. My daughter had also been bugging me to move her room downstairs to the addition on the back of the house. It was pretty much my late husbands living room, and the dogs beds, toys, etc. reside back there. I wasn't entirely sold on the idea at first, but the thought of getting all my modeling, and aircraft stuff into one room was rather appealing. I had the bulk of my built models, and my collection of Whiskey 7 stuff in my living room downstairs.
We started the process last week of moving stuff out of the backroom, then my daughters stuff from her room into the backroom. Then my stuff from our bedroom into the new hobby room. I got a new desk to house the Cricut, laptop, printer, and 3D printer stuff. I picked at it during the week moving the major stuff around, and spent the majority of today moving my big stand/shelf, china cabinet, and all my built models upstairs. Aside from my lighted 1/48 Herc, it's just so big I have no where to hang it. Anyway, on to the pics.

The Before. This was in our bedroom, like I said, cramped.



Paint booth, bench, and desk in the new room.





China cabinet and my stand. The stand was built by my Dad, a very long time ago for his 55 gallon fish tank. He added the top part at some point, and I modified it a bit to house my Mini Whiskey 7's in a mostly dust free environment.







Some close up shots of stuff. China cabinet house an F-16 Thunderbird, AV-8B Harrier, F-86 Sabre Dog, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-4 Phantom, Skyraider, and F-101 Voodoo.



Above the stand, Mini D-Day Whiskey 7 with a current 37th Airlift Squadron C-130J-30 Hercules. A flag that was aboard Whiskey 7 when she flew over DC and the mall in 2020, Deer Run Winery's runway red wine, featuring Whiskey 7, some pictures from Whiskey 7's 80 birthday, and one of her sliding cockpit windows that I turned into a picture collage.



1/48 B-26 "Flak Bait", P-61 Black Widow "Jukin Judy", B-25 "Jaunty Jo", Mini D-Day Whiskey 7, and Mini Whiskey 7, along with some Whiskey 7 beer cans, a hat that was aboard when she flew to Normandy in 2014, and a few patches, and challenge coins. Under that is my 1/48 E-3 Shadow, and E-2 Hawkeye, under that 1/72 F-111, and AC-130A Hercules.



Mini Movie Memphis Belle, with the picture of the real one we got when we visited the museum in 2024 before I started cancer treatment.



The trio of Jolly Rogers.



1/48 TBM, F4U Corsair, F4F-4 Wildcat, P-40, P-51, and a Lego airplane.



I'm beat now. Hopefully I'll be able to utilize the new room sometime this week. It's been a few weeks since I've been able to work on the A-26, and now you know why, lol.

[Stikpusher]

That is quite the room! Beautiful display set up!

[LyleW]

Wow, that looks super!

[Stuart]

Can't see the photos alas, but it sounds like a great set up.

[BlackSheep214]

Fantastic aircraft displays cases.

[keavdog]

The progression of your modeling skills has been a marvel to watch and now you have a proper room to continue to build great stuff. It is a milestone in our modeling careers when we finally have a dedicated space.

[cbaltrin]

Great looking model room. Congratulations!

[Medicman71]

Wow! That's an awesome room!

[speedgraflex]

Bravo!

[Duke Maddog]

Magnificent new room! Man,, I envy you all that space and amazing displays! Way to go and congrats on getting your own space!