Started some serious cleaning in the hobby area today

[LOBBS]

I seem to remember a post asking for pics of our work areas and seeing that the wife told me that I had to start getting my area cleaned up I took some pics.

Originally, my area was in the spare bedroom in the basement until her friend needed a place to stay. So, I packed up all my stuff and moved across the hall to the family room/storage area for ###### we don't use. Now that baby #4 is on the way (January), the family room is being converted to the boys' bedroom, freeing a bedroom upstairs and I get to pack everything back up and move back across the hall to where I was to begin with.

The bench, spray booth, dehydrator station

I've really cut back on my aspirations of greatness. I've picked about a half dozen or so projects to focus on and everything else became expendable. The two stacks on the left are complete/near complete kits I have up for trade, everything from there over is somehow involved in said projects.

I'm not actually sure how many kits 3 18-gallon totes can hold but it's a bunch. My best guess is that there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 30-50 kits based on the inventory I took when we first bought the house, what's left out, what I've bought since then and a call to the psychic phone network . This is the aftermath of my boys rampage through my hobby area, kits that had been pilfered for parts and/or kit boxes that were damaged sufficiently enough to warrant disposal. I have no idea what I'm going to do with these eventually because I hate the idea of dumping it all on Ebay.

[Clay]

That looks pretty good George.

And Lobbs, good luck on moving for a third time.

[george 53]

Kyle, George has a good idea there. Target sells the 4 drawer unit for about 6 bucks ,and they really do hold ALOT of stuff. They can really help to make more room when space is tight!

[LOBBS]

George, thanks for the tips. You have an awesome workshop and I'm still stupified when I look at your Smallville dio. I will certainly borrow some of your ideas for the stuff that I'm planning on hanging onto.

I'm like most in that I'm was a much more prolific buyer than builder. In the days PK (pre-kids), I would snatch up nearly everything I saw on the shelf that caught my eye, multiples of the ones that I really liked and kits just for the sole purpose of stealing a set of wheels or other parts out of. Most of what's in the totes are those multiples and kits that are outside my primary areas of interest that I know that I'll never will get around to building. I've learned with time to be much more cautious about what I buy and try to get individual parts/assemblies through trades rather than buying a kit just for the sake of kitbashing.

Ultimately, I'm looking at getting the contents of the totes back out into the hobbyist realm rather than having them waste away in my possession. I've done my best to keep an eye on the Swap, Trade, Free and Wanted! sections, filling every request that I can help out on. I dislike Ebay as a buyer and absolutely despise selling on there. I'm not under any pressure to unload everything so my last option will be throw junkyard lots on their site.

I just put up a post in the Swap section for anyone interested.

Edited October 13, 2008 by LOBBS