Well, here goes....

[FASTBACK340]

......and this is why it's taken me so long to get the hobby room together. Between the both of us working full-time, we spent all our free time this summer with family & re-building the house. Now things are looking good for the hobby room:

Well, we built the deck ( ...and still have to paint the house in the spring)

installed new fencing, garage doors, and poured some cement.....(ditto on garage paint)

I even built a dog house big enough to move into (my boy is over 100lbs.)

Now we move to in-door activities. Today we straighten out some storage issues in the attic and, dare I say it..... WE CLEAN OUT THE HOBBY ROOM!

I have an entire spare room for my model building....

...that is an absolute bomb site. It looks even worst now, as I can't get in there to take a picture!

There, I did it....... I posted embarrassing photo's of my hobby room, which has been untouched for about 10 years. I push everyone else to finish their projects, now it's your turn gang. Harass me NO END to post the finished pictures of my next project, making the hobby room useable. I want to build sooo bad I can taste it.

Edited October 22, 2011 by FASTBACK340

[jeffs396]

Get building John!!!

Your hobby room doesn't have to be ready...I've done complete projects STANDING at the kitchen counter, and I'll do it again if necessary

[walt francis]

So John , What do you have in the started pile and we will let you know what we want to see finished first and if they are cool enough I will be all lover you to finish it

[crazyjim]

You have some obvious building talents, John. So what are you waiting for? Get in that hobby room and make it fantastic!

[Mr. Moparman]

Anything up for trade from that hobby room of yours?

[Terry Sumner]

Suggestion: Either use some melamine plywood for your modeling table or just buy some ready made counter tops at your local big box store. They're cheap and easy to build your bench with! Your room looks ripe for a nice U-shaped work area. That window right there makes it nice! See my shop photos for what I mean. (altho I don't have that nice window)

http://public.fotki.com/tsumner/scale-modeling/my-modeling-shop/

[FASTBACK340]

Well, we finished stage 1 today: cleaned the porch, threw away junk, stored stuff away...etc. Got all the car parts out of the house (well,most of them....) and organized the garage a bit better. Amazing how much "stuff" we have. But tomorrow we do the hobby room. We're enjoying some absolutely wonderful Fall weather in the NYC area this weekend and I'm taking advantage of it. Nice to have all the windows open and enjoying the season....

As for my work bench it's a nice, big & sturdy 2 X 4 framed bench with a finished Formica top. I scored the top out of the garbage behind a cabinet shop early one morning. The main work area is a piece of 20" X 20" stainless steel plate that's easy to clean. I have 2 swing away work lights and a magnified light ring and vise mounted already. I have a power strip w/ my dremel and soldering iron. I'll installing my spray booth in there too so I'll have some venting to do. I had bought a Harbor Frieght spray booth YEARS ago when attending Toledo and I've never used it. I'll post pictures once I excavate the site and get it going.

As for posting a picture of a long dormant project, the one that stands out is my rear engined 12 cylinder overhead cam Hemi powered narrowed Dodge Daytona roadster w/ open wheels and lots of scratch building. That's been sitting for 14 years now. Originally named 2K`tona as a play on the upcoming millennium change, I've missed that deadline a long time ago. But it's also hardly the first thing I'll pick up once I'm starting again. But it is on my mind. If I can, I'll snap a few shots of what's done so far. It's pretty sick....

<sigh...> I regretted not doing this last year, but we just moved into the house in Sept. and there really wasn't time. Now that we're catching up on the major projects, I can get back into it. You'll see what a pest I'll be with posting my junk.... you'll all be sick of me in no time, if your not already.