Getting Organized

So the last couple days rather than making progress on hobby stuff, I've finally bit the bullet and started getting all my stuff better organized.  Stuff has been spread across my desk, a table, and several other locations for too long and it was getting annoying looking for what I needed or wanted at a given time.  So first up was a trip to Wal-Mart and I got a stack of 10 shoe-box sized plastic totes that was on sale, a small shelf unit, and a pack of labels.  This got me good ways into starting to get everything into a home.  The shelf fits nicely at the end of my desk by the shelves holding my BattleTech Eridani Light Horse and Donegal Guard, so all the supplies are nice and handy when I'm working on something at the desk.

Oh this is looking soooo much better

So there is one box for brushes, hobby knives, etc, one for non-bits conversion and basing supplies, and then two boxes for my BattleTech terrain.  10mm models went into a box and I really need to figure out what I'm doing with that lot of stuff.  Then Aeronef got a box of its own as well.  There are a few more groups of models that need to end up in boxes as well.  These include some fantasy dwarfs for Mordheim, vikings for SAGA, extra BattleTech mechs that aren't being used for a unit, and spacecraft like BTech Aerospace.

yeesh, how does some one who doesn't like painting end up with so many colors?

I also used an empty shoe box for all my paints and washes.  While getting it all together, I tossed out a few empties that somehow never got thrown away and went ahead with disposing off the last of the old Tester paint bottles I had from when I was buying cheap paint rather than better quality ones.  It's nice being able to see exactly what I have in paints and to be honest, I've got a couple colors that I currently have no idea why I got them to start with.

Yeah, these 10mm's really need a purpose or a new home

Also in progress are Source books, army books, and such.  BattleTech is all sorted into one box and I'm starting a box of 40K books now.  That just leaves all the other random books I've picked up at times to use for reference materials or that caught my eyes such as Cyberpunk, Aeronef, Shadowrun, Jovian Chronicles, ... yeah plenty of it.

I'm also working on getting the rest of the leftover 40K bits sorted now and am looking for input on one thing in particular.  Sprues with items still on them to be precise is the issue.  Would I be better off with a couple mid to large size totes to keep the sprues in or get smaller totes and dividers and clean all the bits off and sort them.  I can see advantages to both ways and would like to hear which ways work well for others.

Shall we play a game?

Well, that's all for now, and I hope to hear plenty of input on the bits storage ideas.  Also, having been messing with BattleTech so much lately, I really need to get a game of that in.  Cheef, Screech, Murl, any chance of a game in the near future?