How big is your work table ?

[Aaronw]

I've become a big fan of LED lights. They are expensive but very energy efficient and create almost no heat. I have 11 LED lights over my bench, four 50w spots and 7 90w floods. They only draw about 200w total and I would cook like an easy bake oven if they were incandecents.

[mrknowetall]

Nice setup. I just cleaned my bench this weekend. I couldn't stand it anymore. I'll try to get some pictures of my organized work area before I find a way to mess it up again.

And I will.

[oldnslow]

30" x 12', and if I'm lucky I have a 12" x 18" space to work in.

[charlie8575]

Right now, the house is under MASSIVE re-organization, so I've even lost my TV tray! I'm hoping to have some space in the next 2-3 weeks again.

Barring that, I'm seriously looking at using a friend's dining room table sometime in the next couple of weeks so I can get a couple of projects finished.

Charlie Larkin

[vettecote]

Took me several years to get to this point. But, I still could use more room...Joe

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[southpier]

hope that's not the Fire EXIT door!

[mrknowetall]

Took me several years to get to this point. But, I still could use more room...Joe

http://images58.fotki.com/v506/photos/3/713993/10194014/005-vi.jpg

NICE room!

[Danno]

I'm like everybody . . . 8' bench, 1' square effective working area.

But I find myself working piecemeal at the dining room table . . . just to be with others.

[The Creative Explorer]

These are pictures from when we went into the house 3 years ago and the layout is still the same, the computer is gone and that area is my sanding area.

But like everybody else, I end up with 1 square inch of room on all 18feet of desk

[martinfan5]

I would love to have 1square inch of room, here is my little area , dont laugh

[vettecote]

hope that's not the Fire EXIT door!

That would be scary, but there are 2 exits...lol...Joe

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Some very cool benches for sure. I too agree that the lighting situation seems to be harder to satisfy the older I get. Here is my space.

unbuilt kits are in the closet, and in stacked to the left just outside of the pictures

Edited July 24, 2013 by Modelbuilder Mark

[Tony G]

My little corner of the world, I have two 4 foot wardrobe cabinets setup not a lot of space but it gets the job done.

[Zeekodadi]

Tony that's a nice and clean set up.

Here is mine, its been couple of months since i started in modeling still setting up.

Im working on getting more paints. maybe some different brands.

My spray both, airbrush and a Model.

Under the table compressor, vacuum for casting resin parts and other stuff.

Rest of my stuff in the drawers and my small collection. the space on the left is going to be the drying both haven't finished yet.

Edited July 25, 2013 by Zeekodadi

[Tony G]

Thanks Zee, you will always be changing something in your layout. Mine is only clean because I don't build in the summer months due to my work schedule so I clean it up in June and star making a mess again in September, but I do use what time I due have in my off season to plan my builds and get supplies for the winter months.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

My little corner of the world, I have two 4 foot wardrobe cabinets setup not a lot of space but it gets the job done.

Well sir, your "little corner of the world" is very well set up for the space you have.

really enjoying seeing folks benches

[bpletcher55]

HERE IS MY HAPPY PLACE !

[Project510]

very nice ^^

[Russell C]

Mine's about yay big, portable, too, since it is an old cutting board. Call me weird, I'm more comfortable sitting cross-legged on a couch.

Typical situation where the actual work space is small in proportion to the space occupied by the surrounding tools. Computer nearby for reference material searching, while other parts and building material is in a nearby room.

[Zeekodadi]

Russell i like your style, i think im gona do something like that too. You can build anywhere you want.

[charlie8575]

Russel, what scale is that car you're working on? And what is it?

Charlie Larkin

[Russell C]

Russell, what scale is that car you're working on? And what is it?

That's the old Gowland & Gowland 1:32 scale '29 Duesenberg, a glue bomb which my dad bought at a garage sale 'cause he thought it was rare and valueable. I tried selling it on eBay with a starting bid of 99 cents, to no avail, then I thought about using it as a campfire starter for my Colorado summer vacation, but then I came up with a blasphemous idea of a reasonably fun and simple model to build, that would mess with other people's minds. Stay tuned.

[Tom Geiger]

My portable workstation is the board you see here on top of my work bench. It was scrap wood from breaking down an old kitchen cabinet. It became my work surface to protect my kitchen table back before I ever had a model room. Back then I'd put it up on top of the refrigerator every night so my little kids couldn't get at my model project or tools. Those kids are 25 and 29 now.

Today it protects my bench (which is an old hollow core door covered with brown paper). Still if I decide to work elsewhere, I'll take the board with me down to the kitchen table, out on the patio table and I've even taken it on vacation with me. It's turned into a lucky charm for me considering I've been building all my projects on it for 30 years now!

[mrknowetall]

Pretty big. 84" long and 41" deep. After I'm done cluttering it up, I'll be back to a square foot of work space. These pics were taken after a clean up session.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

My portable workstation is the board you see here on top of my work bench. It was scrap wood from breaking down an old kitchen cabinet. It became my work surface to protect my kitchen table back before I ever had a model room. Back then I'd put it up on top of the refrigerator every night so my little kids couldn't get at my model project or tools. Those kids are 25 and 29 now.

Today it protects my bench (which is an old hollow core door covered with brown paper). Still if I decide to work elsewhere, I'll take the board with me down to the kitchen table, out on the patio table and I've even taken it on vacation with me. It's turned into a lucky charm for me considering I've been building all my projects on it for 30 years now!

cool story, thx for sharing