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The left hand shelf is strictly 1/48 scale aircraft, and it's all World War Two. Except for the MiG-15 that snuck in. Waddaya want, perfection? The top shelf is Russian and Japanese aircraft. The seconf shelf is US and allies. The 3rd shelf is all Spitfires. From there down it's all German. Shelves 5 and 6 are the Messerschmitt collection. There are about 35 more 109 variants in the basement waiting to get built. More on that later. These hutch units came with three shelves each. The glass store in town was kind enough to cut me a mess of 1/4" glass shelves to size for about $16 each. I used D-shaped drawer pulls as shelf supports. The O-Gauge train on the top shelf of this and the next unit was hand-built by my great-grandfather for the room-sized layout he and my uncle built between 1939 and 1959. |
| The left hand shelf is all 1/72 scale... except for the big freaking 1/48 stuff at the bottom. Well, I had nowhere else to put them! The top row an F-16XL, a regular F-16, an F-20, a Boeing JSF (loser!) and a YF-22. Row 2 is a few allied WWII types including a pair of Bearctas in Blue Angels colors. From there down it's Nazis; mostly the never-built paper-project jets I'm so nutsy about. The four 1/48ths on the bottom are also German experimentals. The middle two even flew, though not in the operational colors I've painted them in. Note the Dickle "Saurian Brandy" bottle on the top shelf. It's an original, but unfortunately the leather straps rotted in storage when I moved. |  |
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Moving on to my computer room, you can see I like to surround myslef with the fantasy
element while I'm working. I'm referring, of course, to the "girls with guns" calendar
off to the right. My kitbashed starships are all on shelves right in front of me
above the PC. The top shelf has the only from-the-box plastic kits.
That's the Epson 1520 that I print my datasheets on on the left. Astro Boy says hi. |
| Behind me, an ecclectic assortment of sci fi ships and figures looms. Okay, it's a big mess. The 2nd-hand dark mahogany shelf unit to the left houses a couple of resin phasers, as well as models and ... um ... a hand grenade. The black shadowbox on top holds a bunch of tiny GameScience classic Trek gaming pieces, some modified into new designs (I can't help myself) and with homemade decals. That's the 12" Mr. spock action figure from ST:TMP on the top shelf by the Yamato/Argo, and the new James Bond doll on the dresser. And yes, that's the legendary Alps 5000 printer behind the Opus the Penguin phone. Also note the original 35-year-old Mr. Machine toy! Behind Bond is another of Great-Grandpa's O-Gauge locomotives, a rather huge 2-6-6-2 articulated. |  |
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On the other end of the room is my drawing board (which, sadly, doesn't get used much any more), and - yes - more shelves! Some more aircraft on the far wall, and the recently-mounted set of shelves over the board will be for the "canon" 1/1400 scale Star Trek ships. Starcraft's resin Reliant, 1701 and 1701-A are already in place, as well as the "All Good Things" 1701-D conversion. I gotta get building! Astro Boy says hi. |
| A few years ago we broke down and bought an honest-to-god wall unit/entertainment center for the first time our 20 years of marriage and four places of residence. My wife was kind enough to allow me to transfer some of my spaceships and figure models (those that are based on movies and tv shows) on the new shelves. The airplane model shelves in the photos above are on the rear wall surrounding the window. Yes, that's the Monty Python Holy Graille doll set on the corner unit! The opposite corner unit is devoted to action figures, as are some of the middle shelf units. |  |
Photo taken May 27, 1999.
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