{"id":1647,"date":"2025-03-09T14:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tablearmy.com\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:11:37","slug":"the-workshop-is-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tablearmy.com\/en\/2025\/03\/09\/the-workshop-is-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Workshop Is Moving!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had built up quite a bit of momentum assembling the NASAMS<\/a>, but you may have noticed that I haven\u2019t made much progress lately. Why? Well… the workshop is moving \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

From this point onward, unless stated otherwise or obvious from the context, all abbreviations in the original Bulgarian post are written in Cyrillic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, my life at home revolves around the kitchen. It\u2019s where I cook, eat, work, build models, watch films and TV series, and generally do all the things people do at home (I\u2019m even writing this post in the kitchen right now \ud83d\ude09). Apart from sleeping\u2014I sleep in the bedroom, although Nadya sometimes finds me asleep on the kitchen chair after I\u2019ve been watching a series \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can probably imagine, this isn\u2019t the most convenient arrangement. To use the kitchen for my hobbies, I have to work around the family. Before I can bring out a model to work on, everyone has to have finished breakfast, lunch, or dinner\u2014which, in a family with three children, doesn\u2019t always happen at the same time. And if I want to film a particular step, I have to set up two camera tripods (actually, three now) and two lighting stands. All that equipment takes up space, and once it\u2019s set up, getting around the kitchen table becomes quite a challenge. And, of course, one of the children will inevitably develop an unquenchable thirst and need to come in for a glass of water… That\u2019s also why I haven\u2019t uploaded a video to my channel<\/a> in over a year…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I\u2019d had enough, so I took the plunge: I\u2019m moving the workshop somewhere else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the beginning of the month, a friend and I rented a space of around 80 m\u00b2, where I can move all my hobby-related things and enjoy my hobbies undisturbed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea is to have two desks: one workstation for assembling models and another for painting them, with the lighting and cameras more or less permanently set up. Basically, my dream man cave \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, real life differs slightly<\/em>\u2014just ever so slightly<\/em>\u2014from our dreams \ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, there was a small delay while the owner renovated the space, but nothing too serious. Then we got the keys, and it was time to furnish the place. And that\u2019s where the headaches began…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I picked out some desks from IKEA (160 \u00d7 80 cm, so I\u2019d have plenty of workbench space to spread out), checked that they were available at their Sofia store, and arranged for my brother to help me collect them yesterday in his Forester. And… it turned out that the desks I\u2019d chosen were a new IKEA product, and \u201cavailable\u201d actually meant \u201cordered, awaiting delivery\u201d… No such luck! I was pretty<\/em> annoyed, but ordered them online anyway…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we literally filled the Forester with a few models (about ten), the compressor, various tools, and the lighting equipment. Fortunately, the cameras, tripods, lenses, and audio equipment are already in the office next door to ours. So the move has officially begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s a little Catch-22<\/em>: to have the desks and chair delivered, I need to be at the address that day. But to be there, I need to work \u201cfrom home\u201d that day\u2014which means I need a desk and chair there… So I\u2019ll have to rope my brother in again to collect the desks from IKEA\u2019s Sofia store. I\u2019ve ordered the chair for delivery to my home instead (I\u2019ll work from home that day\u2014at least I have a kitchen table and chair), and I\u2019ll take it to the studio unassembled…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And literally as I\u2019m writing this, IKEA has emailed me to say that my desk order is ready for collection \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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