Slow but steady progress on the Great Relocation Project

        I have been greatly remiss about keeping blog posts up to date, my apologies to anyone who misses my often semi-coherent ramblings. The great distraction of late has been the relocation of my library from the basement to a disused upstairs bedroom and the concurrent movement of the minis collection from the dark and crowded area around my furnace and water-heater into the now (gradually emptying) library space. This has required a LOT of sorting and organizing, both of which I am not particularly talented at. As a result the process has been nearly glacial. Today I reached the halfway point with the library and the quarter-way mark with the minis and thus a celebratory post! 

 

the light-colored shelves hold the Osprey uniform collection 

and special interest books (forts, ships, and aircraft)

I should have thought to stain them (the shelves, not the books)

 to match the others before I loaded books into them

the long-term home for the boardgames is still open to debate 

 

 

the dark shelves hold my history books going from prehistory (far left upper corner) 

and then chronologically clock-wise through history, 

so far I've gotten as far as the Great War 

 

 

meanwhile, in the basement, the minis collection is enjoying their new brightly-lit environs

these to will go in a clockwise chronological order (at least that's the plan)

the use of standardized boxing has helped a lot 

       This project has lead to a fair amount of soul-searching about what I have in the minis collection, as I am reminded that I have serious overlaps in scale and period (at one point I had ACW in 2mm, 5mm, 15mm, 20mm, 28mm and 54mm, simply madness!). I guess that after I get things sorted I will have to host another "Free Stuff for Wargamers" session.