VLOG: Deeeeep Clean!
December 5, 2018 by lancorz
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Is @warzan a memember of the Spanish Inquisition?
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One problem I see with you guys chucking stuff out is that with Warren’s new dumpster diving condition, he’ll walk past the skip/bins where you’ve discarded all the crap and immediately go diving and pull it all out again and bring it back in going “John, John, look what I’ve found! Don’t you think this’d be perfect to make…”
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Depending on what things you’re chucking, maybe instead of chucking it you could post asking if anyone here wants it and send it on to the highest bidder?
I feel your pain, I am experiencing this already with my hobby lodge (of course on a tiny scale compared to yourselves). I try to have cleanup/sort every month rather than let it build up because then it just becomes this impossible task (how do you eat an elephant, not in one go but in chunks). My only recommendation is to be ruthless and truly ask if you ever going to use/play/paint with something if not in the next 6 months then probably move it on. Considered opening a BoW Ebay shop for some of this stuff? could help fund… Read more »
great idea this bow ebay thing….
Yes double yes!
So you’re going to toss stuff out and while you’re at it I’m assuming Lloyd is going to be stuffing it back in?
Why not get a dumpster/bin with a locking top and give John the only key?
I know exactly what you mean – when I look around in my “Mans-Cave” (my daughter’s former room – she’s 25 and has an apartment now) – I remember your idea of a hobby bunker – reading the paper There’s an industrial hall where renting is cheap, it’s all about space – no space means no ideas – less creativity … that’s not what I want
Currently trying to clear out our spare room to put a bed in there ready for xmas guests…
Problem is my man-cave has over-spilled and taken up over half that room too…
It’s been a hard couple of days so far and still more to go 🙁
I’m looking forward to the Vlod where Lloyd and Warren excitedly talk about all cool crap they found in the dumpster behind River House Studios.
Good luck on the cleaning!
You have bins and labels so organizing isn’t the issue. It sounds like you just need to give John more projects or hire another John.
I am going through the same thing with my house it is painful and slow process…
You’ve gotta to be ruthless, dump all the crap Lloydy has saved if he hasn’t used any of it in the last 12 months because in all likelihood he’ll NEVER use it. If he moans, just ask him ‘do you have a project in mind for it’ if he can’t answer straight away, any slight pause, then in the skip it goes. Remember be ruthless or it’ll stay there gathering dust for another 12 months.
If he does have projects in mind, then.he needs to get his rear end in gear and make them, film them and get them uploaded. Remember time to be ruthless, the same goes to anyone else hoarding junk.
One thing that helps me is to restrict myself to one or two projects at a time and resist the urge to grab something that would be good for some new nebulous project. Only when that project is complete and on the shelf, will I allow myself to go looking for the next new shiny.
Napalm… and Shop Vacs.
Set it all on fire and then vacuum out the ashes.
It’s the only way to be sure.
good luck guys you’ll need it.
could the light diffuser be a shield for a small spire in epic/titans ?
I’m almost certain you guys have a soldering iron! Pretty sure I saw it on one of the Hobby Night Live’s
I think for most of us a Deep Clean once every few years is a must, followed by a yearly spring clean just to keep on top of things. With @lordofuzkulak on passing stuff on and for a small fee, which in turn can be put back into OnTableTop. You could even do the same with any mini`s that may be surplus, who would not want to own a tank painted by the very talented Sir John Lyons.
@lloyd LLLLLLIIIIIOYYYDDDD !!!!! they’re dumpimg ur stuff. SAVE THE BEAN TINS!!!
Ah well, for the Greater Good!
Very defeatist talk
They haven’t look above the ceiling tiles yet.
I wonder what’s next … how to cure yourself of the shiny syndrom ? 😉
I kind of need to do a similar ‘deep clean’ because *eh* storage space is getting sparse around here too.
Easiest method would be :
– rent a skip
– dump everything in said skip
– profit …
Instead of sorting everything into tiny stacks you may be more effective if you use 3 stacks :
– thrash : the stuff you really don’t want
– keep : the stuff you have an immediate need for within that room
– move : the stuff that is best stored somewhere else
In reality it’ll look as follows; -trash: all the leftover snack containers and actually garbage from the room -keep: what things can be made into the cool terrain that might be exactly what we need (especially after seeing the Space Hulk bit on how cookie containers became the press molds for terrain which might mean raiding the trash pile) -move: things that can’t immediately be kept in the room any longer and can be slid into other plastic containers, jammed inside secondary bins, shoved into odd corners of shelf units standing in other rooms that will be forgotten about until… Read more »
that’s a problem for future beasties 😉
I have a suggestion! Instead of dumping stuff – have an epic giveaway to the community! I’m sure there’s someone that wants your crap! 😀
Why is it that I’m reminded of the character Douglas Reynholm in the series The IT Crowd each and every time Warren hams up his speaking? I think John might have grounds for a harassment suit if he’s the only one in the office getting these “special team building motivational sessions”. Beware of electric pants!
I’m on the same page @warzan, as soon as I seen the lamp shade I thought… Imperial Cathedral roof! Just add some flying butt’s [buttresses] and you’re good to go!
If you put that dome on top of a tower you must video Warrens initial reactions to it as its going to look very phallic.
Ive discovered keeping bean tins and toilet roll tubes to be a total waste. I saved 5 drinks cans for some terrain and they sat for months, during which i drank and binned 100 other cans. No point saving stuff you know youll have easy access to when you get to the project.