Mine is an absolute mess right now. Our basement flooded recently and I have stuff piled everywhere. Once I get things organized, I will try to get something posted, since I now have an iPhone to take pics with.
Hunter, if your old bench is still in one piece, I’ll rent a box truck and come over and take the whole thing. I love it.
Jim [cptn]
Here is my hobby room.
Mine is usually tidy’d up but not while working on a project. The wood shelves are wine crates that I added a middle pine shelf to store my glues, thinners, paints, etc. The middle small plastic drawer between the wine crates has my Humbrol tins, clothes pins, and assorted building junk.
The desk is a drawing desk from Ikea. The metal cabinet is also from Ikea and houses my paints, tools, and most thinguies needed for the hobby. The plastic bins are full of AM parts, decals, pigments, and more tools.
To the right is my 5 ft display case that I snagged from a shop going out of business. There are also two more tall Ikea glass display cases on the opposite side of my mancave.
I do the same thing with my jars of paint-labels on the lids. I’m working on a rack to store the Andrea and Vallejo bottles, too. Because of their shape, of course, I can’t put labels on their caps. I’ve got some scrap styrene to make a rack which will hold the bottles at a 45-degree angle, so I can read the bottle labels, and which will fit in one of the drawers of my cabinet.
I remembered how I was storing my paint jars before-in cookie tins stacked up on part of the bench (see my old photos, above0. I lived with that for years, till I ran out of patience hunting for any given jar while painting.
I have a tip for storing things on the bench or in your work area: take-out containers. I forget when all the Chinese places around here started using plastic containers, instead of aluminum, but when they did, I started saving them every time I got take-out. The containers are great for storing things, because you can stack them, you can label them, and the lids are clear enough that you can see what’s inside any given container. I like the oblong ones the best, but there are round ones, too, about eight or nine inches across, and they work well, too.
I also used a take-out container to make my own wet palette. I found a kitchen sponge that fit perfectly, and I can use brown packaging paper for the membrane. Works just as well as the commercial products.
When I get a new jar I’ll put a drop of color on the lid so at least I can find the color then look at the label. I has cut down on the hunting.
It’s neat to see all your workspaces.
Here’s my little corner in the bedroom.
All the drawers of the desk are FULL. Paint jars and brushes are in the top left drawer, supplies like putty, scissors, superglue, sprue cutters, tape, and a bunch of other stuff is in the top right drawer. All the other drawers are filled with just about everything you might need! Stash is in the corner, and my homemade paint booth on the right. I started out working at the dinning room table summer of 2016. At that point I was dragging my airbrush/compressor outside to paint, lol. Decided to move everything upstairs and build a booth once winter came.
Jim,
Thank you for the immense compliment. Sadly it was taken down while we were in the process of selling that home and moving in to our new home.
For Christmas my Wife got me a new workstation and a new chair. Lots more surface area and very stable.
This WAS my hobby space. I worked for years getting everything ready for action.
Just as it was completed, life interrupted me AGAIN, and we downsized from 2210 sq ft to 806. Everything went away and I started again with a $10 table from craigslist.
Of course I couldn’t leave it alone, so I knocked the bark off with the sander, and went from 3’x2’ to 4’x2’. It is much better now.
So here is is in situ. Ironically I feel that I have more focus now. Perhaps less really is more. For 2018 I will do my best to make the most of this space. At least it is organized. [:)]
Well, if anything you’ll always know what time it is!
You wouldn’t by chance play the drums as that stool looks like a drum throne.
HaHa. Yes that things in monstrous isn’t it? In the old house it was much higher on the wall. Yes I used to play rock and metal drums, hence the “thrax” in my handle. [:)]
Managed to get a relatively good working space set up in my office room at home with a piece of ¾” MDF board set on a dresser and so far it’s working out quite well as is the drawer space. As for the spray booth it has a 6 foot length of 4 ¼” flexible dust collection hosing (not visible) which reaches to the window.
You can easily tell that I haven’t built a model in well over 50 years by my somewhat small collection of paints which I keep in a cabinet, but they are accumulating fast so within the next month or so I plan on building a ‘stepped’ shelf from 1/8” plywood so that I can more easily see and access them without swearing and knocking the bottles over. I also have a small, but quite powerful Shop-Vac tucked away in the corner which obviously comes in handy at times (mostly used to suck up micro pieces of PE that I always somehow mange to lose in the carpeting [bnghead] ).
Really funny. Everytime I go by this post I ask myself “what organized workbench?” LOL! Ok, sometimes but not today. I’ve got this bad habit when building even in 1/1 in the garage, of leaving everything out until I’m done or bogged down. It’s frightning as we speak. Maybe later when it cycles through the organized stage.
Maxie
Organized, schmorganized. Three work areas that are organized at different times but never together. Too many hobbies and interests. My office desk is where most small models and sub-assemblies are built. A comfy office chair and lots of light for old eyes. Airbrushing and messy stuff goes to the garage 1/1 area which is usually involved in a motorcycle project in this case a small speed record attempt machine or at least that’s the theme. I don’t know if it will ever reach completion but it does keep me entertained as does modeling. There’s also an old photographic darkroom that has been converted into a model assembly area with a large table and good lighting and even a large wet sink. You can leave large B-52s and such laying around as long term projects, unlike my multi purpose office desk which is in constant change. Sorry about the mess!
Max
Looks like a neat work area. What is in the “medicine chest” in the last pic?
Ok, as the old saying goes “A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind”. But I’m starting to think that a messy desk with 6-8 models all in various stages of completion piles all over the desk is the same thing!!! To ashamed to post my work area at the moment. Looks more like a hobby shop and a Coke-a-cola truck blew up. Lol
John
Well, it’s a recycled medicine chest alright and it’s still full of obsolete photography stuff that I have no idea why I’m keeping. Thanks for reminding me in that this would be great paint bottle storage area. I’ve got bottles everywhere and this could be the place!—brilliant! [8-|]