anyone wanna show off they're workspace/area? Just curious

[abedooley]

I'm sure when we see some pics of someones work on the "Work table" we ALL wonder, "What in the world was that in the background?!". Well, I do all the time. And I'm quite curious (I'm sure I'm not the only one) to see how everyone works and what kinda lil' doodads everyones made up to help in they're own precedures. I believe we all could learn something from one another and possibly pick up some good tips along the way. I'm REALLY interested into what the BIG DOGS work with to help in their skills. This could get very interesting. I'm gonna put up some pics of my work space and I hope everyone else will follow. If theres any lil' special tools you'd like to explain- GO AHEAD. I'm sure theres gonna be alot of questions about everyones lil' tools and whatnots. Thanks for looking and I hope everyone gets a kick out of this post..

ABE DOOLEY

First I'll show where I was working until I got my old desk back that I used to use a long long time ago. Its okay, you can laugh. I was laughing (along with my wife) at myself too.

This is much better. And a whole lot more organized.

Still have alot of stuff that wont fit in my new area. I've been banished to the kitchen so I wont take up anymore room.

Thanks for looking. I hope to see more peoples areas soon.

[CAL]

sometimes I think this is the most interesting thing to see... others work space, and mine is a constant changing mess.

and this is what it looks like at this moment.

Edited June 4, 2008 by CAL

[LVZ2881]

this was mine a few months ago...

the only thing that has changed is the addition of some new paint spillage and the in progress kit on the bench..

[abedooley]

Love the before and after of the spray booth Cal. very good. Thats a big booth too. Love the Military ?dodge? you got there. And the women.

Love the yellow roll cage LVZ2881. I thought I was the only one who took pics of their workspace. I figured everyone would have to take pics of it right then and then post it. Mines not got paint all over it yet because I havent had the time today to sit down and do anything since I put the new vinyl down. Been running from storms here in southeastern Indiana. Living in a trailor during tornado season SUCKS!!!! BTW... I was in my truck and got caught RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SMALL TORNADO today!!! Talk about prayin to god!!! I turned a corner and WHAM!!! couldnt see the car that was ten feet in front of me! I thought the Blazer was gonna flip. I immediately thought back to Twister when the cow went by. HAHA!! I've been shook up all day. Still supposed to have some major storms all night. If I disappear, please, someone finish my '70 Dodge Challenger.

Doin good so far guys. Lets keep this goin!

[CAL]

Love the before and after of the spray booth Cal. very good. Thats a big booth too. Love the Military ?dodge? you got there. And the women.

Love the yellow roll cage LVZ2881. I thought I was the only one who took pics of their workspace. I figured everyone would have to take pics of it right then and then post it. Mines not got paint all over it yet because I havent had the time today to sit down and do anything since I put the new vinyl down. Been running from storms here in southeastern Indiana. Living in a trailor during tornado season SUCKS!!!! BTW... I was in my truck and got caught RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SMALL TORNADO today!!! Talk about prayin to god!!! I turned a corner and WHAM!!! couldnt see the car that was ten feet in front of me! I thought the Blazer was gonna flip. I immediately thought back to Twister when the cow went by. HAHA!! I've been shook up all day. Still supposed to have some major storms all night. If I disappear, please, someone finish my '70 Dodge Challenger.

Doin good so far guys. Lets keep this goin!

Thanks, yeah, it didn't take long to overspray it up. The Military is actually a Mercedes. I have lots of expensive girl kits, some day I will get back on those.... they are a whole different mind-set of skills that I haven't thought about in years. I'll have to relearn doing them.

Yup we see all those big black clouds forming and heading east. I say, yup, that's going to be a tornado in Kansas, but we don't get much here. Except oh yeah, I guess there was the mile wide twister up north 60 miles. It's not like living in the midwest.

[abedooley]

I cant stand tornado season! It never bothered me until we bought this trailor. What model is your spray booth? It looks very nice. I wish I had the money to buy one. I have a badger model 350 I have never used before that is previously used. I need to replace the cone be fore I can use it. I also need an air compressor badly. I have never used an airbrush before. I want to learn so bad. I realy want to get into pinstriping, my favorite art form of all arts! Theres something about making beautiful pieces of art out of lines. Either straight, curvy, swirly, or long lines, I just cant help myself to stare at it for hours upon hours! I just need to break down and spend a couple hundred bucks and go buy a compressor and a pinstriping starter kit. Anyway... Very nice work from what I can see in your work area.

ABE DOOLEY

[CAL]

I cant stand tornado season! It never bothered me until we bought this trailor. What model is your spray booth? It looks very nice. I wish I had the money to buy one. I have a badger model 350 I have never used before that is previously used. I need to replace the cone be fore I can use it. I also need an air compressor badly. I have never used an airbrush before. I want to learn so bad. I realy want to get into pinstriping, my favorite art form of all arts! Theres something about making beautiful pieces of art out of lines. Either straight, curvy, swirly, or long lines, I just cant help myself to stare at it for hours upon hours! I just need to break down and spend a couple hundred bucks and go buy a compressor and a pinstriping starter kit. Anyway... Very nice work from what I can see in your work area.

ABE DOOLEY

I designed and built it myself, it probably cost $200 to build.

Thanks it's many years of collecting, upgrading, and expanding.

There are still some things I would like to have: a small machine shop including a mill and lathe, a vacuum and chamber for resin, and a separate dark room for PE, which I have done in the bathroom. It is just a pain to set it everything up temporarily. So my resin casting and PE is on a limited scale.

I recently picked up a Mattel Vac u form, which is a cool little machine.

But it all pretty much overkill for the few models I produce nowdays.

You don't have to spend a ton of money on a compressor, I just have a little tankless compressor in the booth overhead, which is plenty. And it is out of the way.

[Ariel]

[Clay]

This use to be my work area,

But now it looks like this,

[Guest zebm1]

My Daddy used ta say, "A neat desk is tha sign of a Sick mind..."

one of mah cleaner days.....

but this is tha usual.....

[Nick F40]

you even have room for your RS4!

I love that yellow GT2!

[Jairus]

This thread idea has come up in the past at least once if not more. Please do not take offense at my suggestion as it is a GOOD idea for a thread... but my suggestion is to do a little searching through past threads to make sure your "epiphany" has not already been thought of and posted on before.

Just a thought.

Carry on!

[Jairus]

Here's the two that I found in only a 3 minute search and I can remember one more:

Show Us Your Workbench

Posting your workbench

[Harry P.]

How about a "Show us your....

Oh wait, never mind. This is a family site!

[Nick F40]

[Jairus]

Bad boy Harry, bad boy!

[cruz]

I have been reduced to a small space in the laundry room in the basement, can't complain though, I had to build on the dinning room table at one time in my previous apartment, at least now I don't have to pack everytime it's dinner time!!!!

Home made spray booth!!!

And finally my two helpers!!!

[Clay]

Here's the two that I found in only a 3 minute search and I can remember one more:

Show Us Your Workbench

Posting your workbench

I did one too Jairus, here

[abedooley]

I thought about doin a search for other ones, but I wanted to do an updated one. Does it hurt to do extra threads??? I always hear some people complain about multiple posts, but I dont understand why?? Arent they all a lil' different?? I'm gonna check the other ones out too. I'm lovin what I'm seeing here. Not at all what I expected.. I thought I'd see alot of big "workshops". Most of you guys have as much or less room than I do. But then again, I dont have half the stuff you guys have got.

Oh, and marcus cruz...is that what I think it is hanging under the picture posted on the wall by your spray booth?? What is the white cylinder to the right of your desk on the white cabinet? I saw your pic of you and Boyd. Alot of people thought he was an a## hole, but I think most of it was how they made him look on TV. Plus, do you thing you'd be happy-go-lucky all of the time if you had to meet those kinds of deadlines??

I wish I could spray inside. I have to go out to the shed and most of the time its rainin when I want to spray. I thought about just getting a big box and putin a filter and then a fan on top or back and pipin it out of the window. I dont know how well that would work though. I cant tell but I think thats pretty much how you have yours set up marcus.. are you using a really strong fan??

WOW jones! Like night and day between those pics! Organized mess?? Thats how mine looks after I finally got to sit down and do something.

Can someone please explain to me about the green mats?? I saw some at hobby lobby and noticed that they are heat resistant and wondered what you guys used them for mainly. Is it to just mainly keep from cutting up your desk and making straight cuts?? Or is there some trick to them? I've noticed almost everyone has one. Wondering if I should dish out the money for one or not. I've also noticed that ALL of you guys have boxes upon boxes of (from what I can tell) extra parts. And LOTS of kits in progress or still in boxes. Thanks guys.

ABE DOOLEY

[Guest Davkin]

Here are some pics of my hobby room I took during a reorganization last year;

You can see the main bench in the middle and the spray booth is in the corner in this photo.

This is looking towards the opposite corner of the same room. What you don't see in this photos is my computer center in the other corner.

This is the main bench after some cleaning and reorganizing;

Here's the heart of the whole room, it doesn't look quite so clean and organized right now.

On a related subject, here is a pic of my TV center/display center;

That's the nice thing about being single, I get to do all the interior decorating.

David

[CAL]

I thought about doin a search for other ones, but I wanted to do an updated one. Does it hurt to do extra threads??? I always hear some people complain about multiple posts, but I dont understand why?? Arent they all a lil' different?? I'm gonna check the other ones out too. I'm lovin what I'm seeing here. Not at all what I expected.. I thought I'd see alot of big "workshops". Most of you guys have as much or less room than I do. But then again, I dont have half the stuff you guys have got.

Oh, and marcus cruz...is that what I think it is hanging under the picture posted on the wall by your spray booth?? What is the white cylinder to the right of your desk on the white cabinet? I saw your pic of you and Boyd. Alot of people thought he was an a## hole, but I think most of it was how they made him look on TV. Plus, do you thing you'd be happy-go-lucky all of the time if you had to meet those kinds of deadlines??

I wish I could spray inside. I have to go out to the shed and most of the time its rainin when I want to spray. I thought about just getting a big box and putin a filter and then a fan on top or back and pipin it out of the window. I dont know how well that would work though. I cant tell but I think thats pretty much how you have yours set up marcus.. are you using a really strong fan??

WOW jones! Like night and day between those pics! Organized mess?? Thats how mine looks after I finally got to sit down and do something.

Can someone please explain to me about the green mats?? I saw some at hobby lobby and noticed that they are heat resistant and wondered what you guys used them for mainly. Is it to just mainly keep from cutting up your desk and making straight cuts?? Or is there some trick to them? I've noticed almost everyone has one. Wondering if I should dish out the money for one or not. I've also noticed that ALL of you guys have boxes upon boxes of (from what I can tell) extra parts. And LOTS of kits in progress or still in boxes. Thanks guys.

ABE DOOLEY

I agree, a bench is fluid and it doesn't hurt anyone to start a new thread on the topic now and again.

mine is actually blue, but they are self-healing mats and are made for cutting on. I found it particularly nice for PE. And in my case I have a real nice bench top so it was protection. It is now covered with a piece of homosote, so, in any event, they are not much money. I feel it was a worthwhile investment.

Yup, a lot of those plastic "shoeboxes" have figure kits in them. A couple of spare parts boxes, abortions, and WIPs, and a couple of boxes of spare PE, and resin bits.

I like to have a primary kit in progress, a couple of long term and involved ones going and a few others to tinker with. So I have a 5 or 6 or so on the bench and a dozen or so that have been started and reboxed for a later date.

But I have a pretty good inventory of unbuilt unstarted kits as well.

there is more but that is all the pix I have handy at the moment.

My other modeling subjects and mediums is 3D CGIs.

[abedooley]

Here are some pics of my hobby room I took during a reorganization last year;

You can see the main bench in the middle and the spray booth is in the corner in this photo.

This is looking towards the opposite corner of the same room. What you don't see in this photos is my computer center in the other corner.

This is the main bench after some cleaning and reorganizing;

Here's the heart of the whole room, it doesn't look quite so clean and organized right now.

On a related subject, here is a pic of my TV center/display center;

That's the nice thing about being single, I get to do all the interior decorating.

David

WOW!!! TALK ABOUT ORGANIZED!!! I'm impressed! I wish I had enough stuff to fill a room that big!!! Those shop towels work wonders for our kinda hobby. I see you have a heated massge seat. Spend much time in that there chair??? LOVE your display cases. Do I see MOPAR?? I've been wondering what a single mans workshop would look like!! HaHa!! What kind of paints are those, and are those "spice racks" or are they for paints? I have been wanting to get a spice rack or paint rack like that for my paints as well. I've also been very curious as to what everyone has in their lil' parts drawers. VERY NICE DAVKIN!!

[abedooley]

I agree, a bench is fluid and it doesn't hurt anyone to start a new thread on the topic now and again.

mine is actually blue, but they are self-healing mats and are made for cutting on. I found it particularly nice for PE. And in my case I have a real nice bench top so it was protection. It is now covered with a piece of homosote, so, in any event, they are not much money. I feel it was a worthwhile investment.

Yup, a lot of those plastic "shoeboxes" have figure kits in them. A couple of spare parts boxes, abortions, and WIPs, and a couple of boxes of spare PE, and resin bits.

I like to have a primary kit in progress, a couple of long term and involved ones going and a few others to tinker with. So I have a 5 or 6 or so on the bench and a dozen or so that have been started and reboxed for a later date.

But I have a pretty good inventory of unbuilt unstarted kits as well.

there is more but that is all the pix I have handy at the moment.

My other modeling subjects and mediums is 3D CGIs.

MY GOOD LAWD!!! You have more kits than my local HOBBY LOBBY!!! That aint no joke!!! The only thing I have is the '70 Dodge Challenger I am currently working on and a '69 Dodge Daytona!! Thats just because I wont be able to afford anymore until maybe mid-fall!! So theres no real rush. Making sure everything is as perfect as "I" can get it. I did get impatient when i started the paint on my Challenger and forgot to tape ANYTHING off so I just ordered another body and changed the paint scheme I was going with. Had to strip the paint off the hood and front and rear facias. I started with krylon's "Textured Shimmer" black hoping it want TOO textured and it turned out to be like 60 grit sandpaper. Needless to say I just decided to go with another paint scheme, Gloss black and red stripes up the hood and down to the body line and back. I just cant believe how many kits most of you guys have laying around! Makes my head spin! I think I see MOPAR?? Nice pics Cal. Thanks for the support. I think Im gonna go buy one of those mats as soon as I can afford the twenty-something dollars.

[Clay]

WOW jones! Like night and day between those pics! Organized mess?? Thats how mine looks after I finally got to sit down and do something.

We cleaned up our living room and kitchen and all the extra ###### went in the Garage. Its worse now because Housing had to come in a do some maintenance for the dryer vent.

[Ariel]

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They look like the father

Edited June 5, 2008 by Ariel