Paint rack and glue holder

[Aaronw]

Looking at the stash and where do you work threads there were several comments about paint storage, particularly the nice commercial paint racks a few have managed to find.

I thought I'd post a couple of do it your self methods, most modelers should be able to make. I understand model builders are good at assembling things.

Glue holder

I don't know how many bottle of glue I spilled before I made this.

This works for most brands of liquid glue, I know it definately works for the Plastruct brand glues.

It is a PVC pipe cap (1 1/4" if I remember right) epoxied to a plastic electrical box cover. The whole thing cost about $5 to make and I haven't spilled a bottle of glue since (even with the help of my cat).

Paint rack

Another fairly easy to make project. I went to the local lumber yard and bought a few sizes of wood molding, some glue and a small pack of finishing brads. I have a fair wood shop set up in my garage which made it easier but the only neccessary tools are a small hand saw and tack hammer (or preferably a brad driver). Anyone who got a C or better in high school wood shop should be able to build something like this. This is a great project if you are in Highschool woodshop, who needs a spice rack.

I made the bottom shelf double wide for stability, the back half makes a nice storage shelf for those items you don't need to get at very often, I mainly store extra glue on it (I hate to run out of glue in the middle of a project so I keep quite a few extra bottles), but it also works well for tall paint bottles common for some brands of airbrush only paints.

For both of these projects it is best to bring a few bottles of the glue and paint you use with you to make sure you get parts that will fit. On the paint rack I layed out bottles of Tamiya and Model master to chose a shelf length thaty fit my space and used most of the shelf for paints. In my case the shelf will hold 10 bottles of Tamiya or 12 bottles of Model Master paint.

Edited September 1, 2008 by Aaronw

[MikeMc]

Looking at the stash and where do you work threads there were several comments about paint storage, particularly the nice commercial paint racks a few have managed to find.

I thought I'd post a couple of do it your self methods, most modelers should be able to make. I understand model builders are good at assembling things.

Glue holder

I don't know how many bottle of glue I spilled before I made this.

This works for most brands of liquid glue, I know it definately works for the Plastruct brand glues.

It is a PVC pipe cap (1 1/4" if I remember right) epoxied to a plastic electrical box cover. The whole thing cost about $5 to make and I haven't spilled a bottle of glue since (even with the help of my cat).

Great idea......if you use Tamiya spray paints.....use the cap to hold your Tenax..et al...doesn't cost anything!!!! FREEBIE