Here are some pictures of my original kit:
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| Left to Right: Decal box, building tool box, painting tool box. |
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| Sure, that may look like a lot of paints, but trust me, it isn't. |
-Construction Tool Box: 1 pair of tweezers; 1 modelling knife; 2 tubes of glue (one full, one almost empty); 1 sheet of fine sandpaper
-Painting Tool Box: About 20 small bottles of paint; probably 10 paintbrushes of various sizes; 1 medium bottle of brush cleaner; 1 paper towel to dry brushes on; 2 stir sticks (made from clippings of a sprue)
-Decal Collection Box: All the decals I had, in no particular order
-Parts Collection Box: All the extra pieces I had, in no particular order, still on full sprues
To make it worse, most of the boxes were flimsy.
Now, I have:
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| My Tool Kit, closed |
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| Tool Tray |
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| Paints area |
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| Only the top 2 levels of bins are for modeling; the rest are Lego. |
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| My collection of paper stuff (Decals, box fronts, instructions, and apparently the puzzle section of a newspaper. |
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| My decals |
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| My spare parts, neatly organized |
-Tool box lid: 2 glues, 1 pair of scissors, 1 multi-tool, 3 modeling knives, 2 tweezers
-Tool box Tray: 8 paints (my most commonly used ones), 1 tape + dispenser, 4-5 brushes, 3-4 stir sticks, 1 grip-pad (for opening paints easily), 2 paint-mixing holders, 1 pair of tweezers, 1 sheet of fine sandpaper
-Tool box main: 33 paints, ~35 brushes, 2 paint thinners, 1 rag
-Bin 1: Yet to be painted models
-Bin 2: Yet to be completely built models (This is usually empty, and double-serves as an overflow-catcher for the "Yet to be painted models" bin. This should tell you a bit about which part I enjoy more.)
-Bin 3: Spare parts, neatly organized by origin & scale.
-Bin 4: Diorama construction tools (Snow powder, fake grass/vegetation, Street lamps & signs, fuel drum w/ hose, etc.)
-Bin 5: Unassigned models (i.e. my 1/48 Sherman, which I could never quite fit in anywhere)
-Bin 6: My ''Test Subjects'', my two 1/76 tanks which died while I was testing my first spraypaint job from WAY too close.
-Folder A (Left): Small scale instructions (1/72, 1/76)
-Folder A (Right): Large scale instructions (1/35, 1/48)
-Folder B (Left): Replacement letters, company warranties, etc.
-Folder B (Right): Japanese/Chinese instructions (All), just in case!
-Plastic tub: Fronts of boxes, the flap of a box which contains the description, any back-of-box instructions, "other things sold by this company", etc.
-Decal Holder: Originally for Pokemon, now holds decals sorted by purpose; which is, admittedly, almost always by kit, but sometimes not (i.e. German Helmet decals, German Vehicle Decals)
A lot more than the first kit, you'll notice.
