A Tour of My Game Room
Greetings!
I have been doing some sculpting this week and a little painting. I also have been working on my D&D campaign as the party is about to catch up with my prep. I'm a prep heavy DM for better or worse.
I decided to do something I have been thinking about for a while and do an update to my gaming space tour that I did on my old thread back in 2004-05.
Our gaming space is decently large, approximately twenty feet by twenty-two feet and is surrounded by windows. The windows are a blessing and a curse. We have lots of natural light, but it limits the amount of storage cabinets and shelves I can put up.
First up is a pair of cabinets with glass doors that I bought at IKEA a couple of years ago. On top of the cabinets is a few different ship models I have made over the years.
In the first cabinet I mostly have terrain I have made using Hirst Arts molds and a few DF pieces.
The second cabinet holds a bunch of DF pieces.
The next display cabinet I bought from IKEA too. It houses some Miniature Building Authority pieces and a few larger Hirst Arts projects.
Next, is my main miniatures cabinet. It houses almost entirely fantasy figures. I have moved my historicals and limited 40K stuff to other storage to make room. As you can see it is pretty well stuffed and I need to add another space!
Another IKEA display cabinet follows. This one is home to some larger miniatures on the top and mostly DF city pieces. I leave the DF built so I can yank it out quickly on game day. I have lots more stored if I need to create something more specific or elaborate.
The following is the favorite thing I have purchased from IKEA. It is a cheap set of large drawers on wheels. It holds a lot of old school DF pieces and I can just wheel the whole thing next to me during a game. The only bad thing is I overloaded a couple of the drawers and broke one last year. So I pulled a bunch out and now it works fine.
The first drawer has floor pieces and an assortment of doors. The other drawers have wall pieces, corridors, and other mundane pieces I need for dungeon building.
Not a fancy piece of furniture, but you can see it holds tons!
Under my gaming table I have a three drawer unit that holds a bunch of DF Dwarvenite pieces.
The first drawer houses my sewer pieces.
The second drawer houses cavern pieces and a box of the new style cavern lakes.
The third drawer holds more cavern pieces and specialty pieces.
This is my leaning tower of cheap drawers as my wife calls it. It is about 8-feet tall and contains everything from unpainted minis, model trees, different felt covers and mats for the gaming table, dice, tokens, measuring tapes, etc.
Next is a place where I spend a lot of time in the off-season (I'm an American Football HS Coach). The painting and modeling desk in all of its ill-kept glory!
Finally, the place where all the
MAGIC happens - the gaming table.
I have one of those nicer game tables that the top comes off and we use it for a kitchen table, but it is tough to beat a good old 4' x 8' covered plywood sheet for us! The kitchen table usually is our spot to play board and card games. It's nice because we can leave games up in there and not worry about our dogs or the cat messing with them.
Now then, where in the heck am I going to put the huge amount of Dwarven Forge I have coming in from the latest Kickstarter in May?