A little more organized

[THarrison351]

So, another year and still no hobby room. That makes five now. I did get most my son's stuff out of the house. My wife insists we keep schoolwork and baby stuff. I get some other items sorted and recycled or sent to Goodwill. This opened up a little space in the area that is to be my hobby room. I need find a place for this huge Christmas tree. Maybe in the spring once it's warm, I will the get the model boxes out and go through them again to sell on eBay. I now have a table in it and with the tool cart from Christmas, all my model building tools, accessories and leftovers are accessible. I'm kind of stoked. Started right into a stock car. Painting will be limited due to weather, but at least I can get it ready.

My work area is tight, but i have enough space.

A place for all my tools, and I can drag it all to another space when I start to clean out this room to finish it (yeah, right).

The top area holds tools to open those stubborn 30 year old paint bottles. It also has my scales, airbrushes and some extra stuff. I still have lots of room to throw a kit in progress and all the stuff on my table.

Top drawers. All the paints are marked so I can tell the colors.

Middle drawer. Meh, needs some work still.

Bottom drawer. I can store spray cans in here.

The bottom shelf holds my compressor and tank, my paint stand, Dremel tool and some taller chemicals. I likes me some stickers! You ought to see my work toolbox.

I have another small plastic three drawer storage unit that has a whole bunch of bottled paints from House of Kolor that I've never really used. It also has my leftover parts from builds, decals from old kits and future NASCAR builds (yeah, right) and a lot of little accessories from Detail Master. Also the bottom drawer is full of model spray paints.

 

Edited January 9, 2019 by THarrison351

[iamsuperdan]

It's always a challenge finding space. 

My garage is insulated, but not heated. So when it starts getting cold in November, I can't work at the bench. So my bench becomes the kitchen table. I have to move all everything indoors, and then when I want to build, set it all up on the table, do my thing, then put it all away when I'm done. Can't do any spraying until spring and it warms up again, so there tends to be a real backlog. The good news though, among the many upgrades and renoes we're doing this spring, there will be a garage heater. I'm also having the installer "drill" a second hole in the side of the garage for a additional vent. This way I can set up a proper paint booth.

 

[Tom Geiger]

I have a good sized hobby space now, but back in the day I built one of my best, favorite and iconic models at the kitchen table.

My '53 Ford Pyrite's Paddler  pickup was built for our annual Tri-State Scale Model Car Club contest we held at our December meeting each year. It was a friendly competition with people's choice voting, and Todd Koncsol had won it the last three years.  We always had some fun ribbing and I told him I was going to beat him next year.  He responded with a smile, "Yea, if you ever finish anything!"  Oh, those were fighting words so I set my focus on beating him.  

I didn't have a model room at the time.  I found an old shelf in my lumber pile and that became my workbench.  I'd place it on the new kitchen table every evening I worked. I had a clamp on light I'd focus onto the board.  And I'd work there diligently every evening.  I had small kids at the time, so I had to be careful with my hobby materials and supplies. So at the end of each evening, I'd put everything on the board, and put it up on top of the refrigerator.  That worked pretty well.  

A good side effect of this process was that it made me clean up and organize my work every day.  Nothing like the mess of a work bench I have today!  And yes, I did complete my model and I won the contest that year!

 

Now the irony is that I have a great hobby room today, but I still build on that very same board!  My workbench is an old hollow core door wrapped in brown paper. I wrapped it out of the habit of being an old draftsman  we always wrapped our drafting boards at work!  The board protects that surface. On top of the board is a piece of thick glass, which is actually the glass from a Xerox machine.  I do my gluing on top of that and scrape it clean with a razor blade between projects.

Edited January 9, 2019 by Tom Geiger

[fivesuns]

Love the "no step on snek" sticker.

[Belugawrx]

I like the portability of it Tim ,..two thumbs (still) up !

[THarrison351]

In all the places I have lived since leaving my parents house 37 years ago (6th move), this is the first place I've had that is close to permanent. I always built on a dining room table or like at my last house my computer desk which I still have, but no longer use. It was always too small an area. I can finally leave everything laying out and know it won't be bothered and my wife doesn't have to look at my mess.

7 hours ago, fivesuns said:

Love the "no step on snek" sticker.

My son inspired me on that one. He showed up at Christmas with a patch of it on his jacket. I like it too.

 

12 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Now the irony is that I have a great hobby room today, but I still build on that very same board!  My workbench is an old hollow core door wrapped in brown paper. I wrapped it out of the habit of being an old draftsman  we always wrapped our drafting boards at work! 

When I was in high school wood shop class, we has a semester on drafting. I distinctly remember wrapping the basswood drafting boards with butcher paper to protect them. Our instructor explained that even though our school was one of the newest in the county at the time (9 yrs old). The tables dated back to the '40s and were kept in good shape because they always wrapped them in paper. I have no idea if they still have them. The school is still there, no longer the newest by far and I don't even know if that type of class is even offered.