When You Have A Room Full of Models & Drink Too Much!

As many of you know I have a decent sized collection of 400 scale models, which are stored in my 3 car garage or hangar as I like to call it. It's a great entertaining space complete with pool table and table football, which means it also gets used for drinking and eating. I had managed to acquire a few airplane related beermats but in the end it just proved easier to make my own.

For those unaware of my collection space checkout this quite recent video - it's a little out of date but gives you an idea:

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I'd been looking for a while for some airplane themed beermats to use around the place and I did chance across a few small ones related to Qantas and BOAC:

I had also acquired a stack of beermats from TradeMe - mainly circular Heineken, square Lion Red and oval Stella Artois ones. So after some fruitless searching for av themed mats I just decided to make my own. It's pretty simple really:

Step 1: Grab some images off the web, resize them in MS Word and print
Step 2: Cut them out and stick them onto the existing beermat base
​Step 3: Laminate the whole mat

I'm pretty happy with the results. First there are these 6 using the Heineken mats as the base:

They work well on the two circular bar leaners around the pool table:

Then I made 12 more using the Lion Red mats as the base:

These ones work well around the main displays, although I may have gone slightly overboard!

​Anyway enough of that. Time for a drink...