Make room for baby!

The last couple of months have been pretty hectic. I'm working a lot and busy trying to get the condo in order before the baby comes in June. This has involved some couch swapping between the condo and the studio and now my space in the studio has gotten smaller. To be fair I am using way more space than my wife right now but I'm trying to get things in order. I have also replaced the old formica counter tops in the kitchen with new ones (a simple-ish job that became a nightmare of small troubles), I removed the old queen bed and desk from the nursery, then bought, carried (solo) and assembled the furniture, I arranged the living room to house the computer with a new (smaller) desk, and I still have to finish a BUNCH of other little projects, like building some shelves for the nursery and getting and installing a new cabinet in the kitchen. All the while trying to get some hobby time in. Wish me luck.

Don't get me wrong, I'm super excited to be a father and will gladly suspend my hobby time in favor of time with my child. But I am hoping to be able to balance it out so that I get "some" hobby time.

The ERTL Machine Shed conversion Part 1

Recently, I posted about the ERTL Farm Country Machine Shed set. (http://confessionsofaminiaturemodeler.blogspot.com/2014/04/ertl-farm-country.html)
I'm really happy with the way it looks with all the 25-28mm/O Scale/1:48th mish mash of stuff I have going on so far. Once I finish I'll take some better pics for scale purposes.
So far, I've glued the roof pieces together and sprayed them with a gun metal-ish silver spray paint.
I had forgotten my camera for this step so there are no step by step shots. (I can't afford to waste any time in the studio by going back home to grab the camera). Here's the roof.
I plan to spray it with a dark(ish) green.

And the inside of the roof.

I scraped off the numbers and mold marks so that the interior would be smooth. Then I cut some strips of plastic and glued them on to give it some character.

Next I cleaned up the wall sections and glued them together.
Inside walls (you can see the circular mold marks)

 Outside walls

Then I took some of these drink stirrers (Not sure where I got these, which is a bummer because I can see lots of uses for them now) and cut them down to make support beams for the walls.

Pic of the stirrer support beams,

Then I used some plastic to cover up the joints.

I'll spray the interior with the gun-metal silver and the outside with white.
Here's a shot of it (mostly) together.

I still have to figure out the outer doors and the large sliding doors but it's coming along nicely so far.

Boats

I found the same Dollar General boats at Toys R Us. 

The Toys R Us price?

$5.99

AND...

It has a slightly better paint job to it and looks a bit nicer to me.
Even though it's pretty much the same boat.