From MilesR - Secret Underground Depot....... (no points...)

One downside of the Challenge is miniature storage.  While the Challenge reduces the size of my lead mountain it does create figure display and storage issues.  This situation is further compounded by my wife's decree that I can not purchase any additional figure display cases or materials to build one - apparently a man cave can have too many (crazy isn't it?).  Sensing there was no ability to appeal my lovely, yet fierce, wife's decree (i got the look..),  I set about devising a clever way around her proscription with only the materials at hand - some 1x2 lumber, some quarter round moulding and a few miniature transport trays.  You can see the conceptual work in my hobby notebook scribblings - take care - gazing to hard at the crazed runes in my notebook has driven hardiest of us to the brink of madness.

 Rather than just build a simple storage unit, I elected to build a secret underground base in the style of a soviet bloc apartment building from the 1960's - you know square, ugly and with shoddy workmanship.  Like a leviathan rising from the deep, my creation began to take form....

 All nice and level....

Higher and higher go the rails

Wala' here is the completed skeleton of the beast.  I am sure that all of you are gazing in wonder at my creation and your faces have taken on the same visage that they bore the first time you gazed upon a dinosaur skeleton as a child.

Fully deployed under my gaming table - more figure storage without breaking my wife's edict that I can not purchase anything new.

So how does this qualify for points in this years Challenge?

Well, ummm, ahhh, you see.....

It's a secret multi story underground base that can pop up during game and shoot stuff up and junk like that.  Of course, I still need to cut an access panel in the table top, install some long drawer slides and a motorized pulley system plus add the guns but I'm almost there.

The unit is held in place by 2 wood screws and can slide out to be used for transporting large forces to convention games.  Each shelf will hold about 120 28mm scale infantry figures so I can hide - oops - I mean store a approx 2,000 infantry figures.  It was a simple project that took about 3 hours to complete.  The only power tool used was a hand drill (for pilot holes) - everything else was simple hand tools.

From Curt:
Well folks, we have to look on the bright side, last year it was a chair ...  

Okay Miles, once you've cut out the table-top access panel, installed a motorized pulley system and added some turrets then you can come back for some points.  

Otherwise... I must say I live in awe of people who can do good woodworking. This is a lovely piece of organizational funiture Miles and you did it in a few hours?! Incredible. I probably would have lit our house on fire in the attempt... 

If I can ask, what are the drawers made of and what dimensions? 

I'll have to bring to you Canada as a migrant worker so you can make a hobby table for me. I'll pay you in wine, steak and some snow - deal?