Paint rack \ shelf

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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Hi all I need help I have about 200 jars of paint 98% MM and I need a rack or maybe a step shelf to put all these on I have a home made step rack that will hold about 120 jars but I would like to put the rest on some type of shelf or rack so I don’t have to pick up 80 different jars to fine the ONE I need Here is the kicker I do not have a work bench so most of the time I have to move my stuff to werever I want to work. thanks J

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Look into tackle boxes and shooter’s boxes. Many of these have compartments just the right size.

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Here is what I have, and I like it. You can store plenty on it to! http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=VAT10080

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I had great luck with wooden utensil (knives and forks) racks at Target that I stood on end.

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I just built one of these myself, and wrote a short article on it for an upcoming issue of the magazine. If I get a chance, I’ll post a picture of it later today.

Matt Usher @ FSM

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Thanks Colin I just ordered 2 of them that will help untill I thin down what paint I have. Matt I sill would like to see the rack you made I built a 6 step rack that would hold about 45 jars of paint Just needed more room.

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I made these shelves a while back for cheap and a very quick build. A 2x4 foot piece of Luan plywood… very thin, some 1/4x1-1/2x48 inch poplar strip and a little CA glue. A total of 9 cuts in the wood. The shelves are uncut pieces, the sides are 2 pieces cut to the height needed with 6 spacers for the shelves and the plywood has 1cut length wise. It holds about 110 MM bottles. I am about to make another one, this time vertical.

If you can see beyond the mass of clutter… there is actually a paint rack there.[;)]

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Glad I could help Urich.

WIng_Nut, I wanted to do that, but my desk sits right below a window, and it would have taken way to much desk space to do anywhere else! Looks good though!

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Colin, This can mount on a wall real easy. that whatI plan to do with the next section.

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Here’s the rack I mentioned:

There will be a full how-to article about this one in the March '07 issue. I’m not sure how many bottles it will hold; it’s proportioned based on the (small) amount of wall space I had available over my bench.

Matt @ FSM

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All I see is the dreaded red “X”, Matt.

WIng_nut, I have no wall space either [:D] Its a bunch of stuff piled into one bedroom, and it ain’t pretty. Soon the fiance and I will be getting a house though (next April or May) I told her I want a room, but it had to be in the house. I get lonely, and if the kids want to see what Dad is doing, they can come on in, the only time the door will be shut is when I’m not in there. Hopefully then, I will be able to do soemthing like that!

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Matt, the link she don’t work so good.

By the way, you are hereby commanded to go out and purchase sufficient quantities of paint so that the full how-to article can report on the maximum capacity of the unseen shelf. This can be accompanied by a list of excuses you provide your wife on why you ended up with so many of the same colours. [:D]

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[ditto] That is a great idea Bill. I think we all stand to learn a lot from that!

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HA!

Now it’s fixed. Stupid Internet…

As you may have guessed, yours truly is technically challenged. I have a wind-up watch and my Telecaster plugs into a tube-powered amplifier…

Matt

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I made this one last weekend. It’ll hold 150 bottles of MM not counting what’s underneath.

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Oh like that work area has ever been used [:D]

I didn’t mean yours hksshooter. I meant the one Matt is doing for the article!

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Since you showed me yours…

This is an old picture, I have at least twice as many paint bottles as shown and it’s probably only half filled. A quick count says 76 bottles, not including thinners, primers and putty compounds and some bottles of masking liquids. At 32" wide, 7" tall and 10 1/2" deep, it can hold 25 Tamiya bottles per step times 7 steps so 175 bottles total. It was designed to fit the 10ml bottles and each rise is sufficient to show the next level paint color and number.

Due to an odd reaction with electricity and static I can only wear wind-up watches, and tube amps rule, much warmer sound and better distortion.

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I built this revolving rack a while back. I had the advantage of a deep bench (a drafting table), and the disadvantage of no adjacent wall space.

For a complete how-to article:

http://www.ipms-phx.org/articles09.htm

Regards,
Bruce

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Bruce,

That is a thing of beauty. Beyond my humble wood butchering skills, but still beautiful!

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Bill,

Thanks for those kind words. I’ve no particular wood-butchering skills either, so I try to compensate with good tools. It’s the same with my model building. There were two key items for this project, which took about a day-and-a-half in my garage workshop:

  1. You can never have too many clamps

  2. I designed the whole thing in 3D on AutoCAD, so I had an accurate cut chart (see the link). All it took was a table saw, a power drill, an orbiting sander, a carpenter’s square, a tape measure, and lots of clamps!

I was amazed at how many bottles fit on the top shelf (thinners and solvents, a brush cleaning jar, etc.), and pleased at how well it multiplied the square footage it occupies.

Thanks again,
Bruce