MightyBeanComics Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Thanks! I'm a Cap freak from way back. My wife bought me a 19 inch Cap statue from Sideshow for my birthday. It gets here Friday. I have no idea where I am going to put it. I was going to put it on a shelf, but it's 30 pounds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyBeanComics Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Thanks everyone! I put a lot of love into this room. I have no idea what I am going to do when the shelves are full I know the day will come and I think talking my wife into a bigger house is probably out of the question for the near future. I guess I should be grateful that I have my own room just for comics!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 This is where I store my goodies away from prying eyes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monstro Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 large collection vintage or modern in all those boxes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevinjt4-migration Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Stupid question since I have lots of it at work... Where'd you buy the shelving units? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Mixture of both in the 66 boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Hmmm. That setup looks awfully familiar - especially the ducting that plunges through the "second from top" shelf... Just where have I seen that before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug33fouf Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 my collection is kept in a closet.(15 boxs)wall to wall .i would like to display in my office room but, im afraid of the sun light and temp.what should i do?thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 hhhmmm....perhaps Hoss' site has my pics on them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 hhhmmm....perhaps Hoss' site has my pics on them.... Nope, found them Here but without the cool Batman figure. What is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Ah yes. Now I remember posting that. The white duct is from our dryer on the other side of the wall. It is cleaned regularly by me so there's no risk of fire due to lint build-up. The gray pipe at the top is the duct for our central vac. Anyway, here's the origin of the Batman pics on our wall. A few years ago, Risso came out with "Batman Black and White" statues. Here's a link to the one I wanted here. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...hlink:middle:us Since my LCS already sold their stock at the time, I was too late in getting one. My fiancee saw the photo of the statue I wanted in the Previews mag so while I was gone away on a business trip to the Carolinas, she hired a professional artist to come into our home and paint this Batman pic on the wall based on the Risso statue. The Bat-Mobile was just a bonus painting based on a photo she found somewhere on the net. It's a great conversation piece. Most people think it's there for my kids until I set them straight that I'm a bigger kid than my kids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Thanks for the link. The statue has amazing detail for something that small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromium Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Ok, so it's not my comics room, but I've shown that one enough already...but it has a comic theme, so bear with me Last year I finished my little home theater and decided to only use three colors in the entire room. White, black and red. The room is pitch black most of the time as I only use it to watch movies on a giant screen and play Xbox. Now the last year it's become more and more the place where I also flop down on the couch (red of course) to read a book and basically hide from the rest of the world. So after a while those all white walls (+ all white ceiling) started to look "too clean" and I wanted to ad something. First idea was to get a movie themed poster, but all the ones I liked were done to death, plus I wanted to stay with the black/white/red pattern. So I chose a Spider-man cover. I had a scan from the original cover art (which I believe a forumite owns), cleaned it up in Photoshop, coloured the title red and then blew up the entire piece using pixel magnification to get a Lichtenstein effect. I then had to print it out on my trusty deskjet printer, 36 pages and three cartridges later I was left with a lot of grainy pages. Spent a few days cutting everything, matchting everything up and then colouring in the mistakes (still not perfect). I then glued everything together and put it up on the wall. It's not perfect, but I'm still amazed what's possible these days with just a basic knowlege of Photoshop and a $50 printer it's pretty big, I'm 6ft 2 and it's taller than me, here's the original comic for reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc120us Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Sweet, Chromium!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monstro Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Ok, so it's not my comics room, but I've shown that one enough already...but it has a comic theme, so bear with me Last year I finished my little home theater and decided to only use three colors in the entire room. White, black and red. The room is pitch black most of the time as I only use it to watch movies on a giant screen and play Xbox. Now the last year it's become more and more the place where I also flop down on the couch (red of course) to read a book and basically hide from the rest of the world. So after a while those all white walls (+ all white ceiling) started to look "too clean" and I wanted to ad something. First idea was to get a movie themed poster, but all the ones I liked were done to death, plus I wanted to stay with the black/white/red pattern. So I chose a Spider-man cover. I had a scan from the original cover art (which I believe a forumite owns), cleaned it up in Photoshop, coloured the title red and then blew up the entire piece using pixel magnification to get a Lichtenstein effect. I then had to print it out on my trusty deskjet printer, 36 pages and three cartridges later I was left with a lot of grainy pages. Spent a few days cutting everything, matchting everything up and then colouring in the mistakes (still not perfect). I then glued everything together and put it up on the wall. It's not perfect, but I'm still amazed what's possible these days with just a basic knowlege of Photoshop and a $50 printer it's pretty big, I'm 6ft 2 and it's taller than me, here's the original comic for reference great job!!!! it looks really good in the photos. how much coloring did you have to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromium Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 great job!!!! it looks really good in the photos. how much coloring did you have to do? No that much...as I used just an everyday printer some of the 36 pages weren't printed perfectly straight, meaning some of the pages didn't line up perfectly. If there were large areas of black that got seperated by the pages I had to colour (blacken) the white areas so it all looked ok. Spent maybe 45 minutes touching up various parts. A little line here, a few dots there... I can imagine if you did a full colour version it would be a lot more work, plus how would you touch up some of the more exotic colours ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 That's Amazing! (Pun intended). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicwiz Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 great job!!!! it looks really good in the photos. how much coloring did you have to do? No that much...as I used just an everyday printer some of the 36 pages weren't printed perfectly straight, meaning some of the pages didn't line up perfectly. If there were large areas of black that got seperated by the pages I had to colour (blacken) the white areas so it all looked ok. Spent maybe 45 minutes touching up various parts. A little line here, a few dots there... I can imagine if you did a full colour version it would be a lot more work, plus how would you touch up some of the more exotic colours ? that is amazing!! the closest i'll get to having my own comic room is a virtual one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringfinger Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 That is a great picture!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComicsAndCode Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Man, you guys are killing me!! Originally, my wife and I planned on liquidating all my collectible assets for a down payment on a home. But after seeing all these inspirational photos of comic (and co.) rooms, I'd rather keep my collection and just continue saving. I don't want plain office walls in the new home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
