This may have been done before, but I find it interesting to see what various stuff is on peoples workbench. I like to see what you guys are using (tools, glues, putty’s ect.) to build models as well as what planes may be laying around in various stages of construction.
I’d like to better organize my setup which is what got me thinking about this in the first place.
So let’s see what ya got!
Ok, I’ll be the first one, I got a workbench, maybe 4ft. long and 2ft. deep, I have a set of sanding sticks, squadron green putty, testors plastic cement, super glue, A magnifying glass with 2 clips on it for holding parts, a tool that will hold parts at variable degrees of pressure(just can’t think of the name right now.) I also have 2 rolls of masking tape, a bottle of thinner, a lot of toothpicks and a set of the sprue cutters and exacto knife. Don’t have a spraybooth so have to do that outside.
Right now I have an F-18, 80% done, A Beaufighter, working on a interior, so maybe 10% done, and a couple of figures.
I’m sure I have more but just can’t think of it right now.
David
Like this here.
David! You’re cheating again!!![:O] I do everything with a 3/8" drill bit and a wood rasp.[:o)]
Seriously though, I do a lot of small detail stuff sitting here at my desk in the (home) office (while I peruse the FSM forums, of course). In the garage I have a 5 lb and a 20 lb vise, bench grinder and drill press on a 10 ft bench. My modelling stuff shares space with my bicycle and gunsmithing hand-tools. There’s a little ShopSmith lathe/mill/thing and welding equipment out in my “shop”. At least it used to be “my shop”. Now it’s mostly daughters storage shed[:(!].
OUCH! Oh, there’s my X-Acto knife. Don’t ask why it’s in my boot. [swg]
EDIT: BLUNCE. You may be interested in checking out this thread down in the General forum… /forums/804021/ShoePost.aspx Some pretty cool set-ups there!
Here ya go!
IT"S A MESS! My true hobby desk is in the back bedroom but since the large screen TV is in the other half of the house, I moved det-operations onto the kitchen table so I can work and view the TV. Still in work on the 1/32 Thud and I have parts trees scattered about the table along with paints, Squadron file sticks, knifes, the paint air compressor is sitting on one of the chairs. I’m usually better organize than this but have been so busy with other projects/problems that I don’t straighten things up after I put in a couple hrs on a kit like I use too.
Scott
Mine’s about six feet or so long (I’ve never measured, or if I did, it’s been so long ago I’ve forgotten the length). On top is a nifty set of file boxes that hold research materials, my modeling diary and the parts I’m currently working on. The main spares box is against the wall where it’s out of the way yet close at hand. A fluorescent desk lamp I fished out of the trash a while back provides lighting. A rotating tower holds pens, tweezers, scissors, a box of plastic poker chips (great super-glue dispensers), sanding sticks and some miscellaneous tools. My model sits under plastic nearby where it’s out of the way, yet close at hand.
Underneath are three shelves jammed to the hilt with a tackle box full of clamps, extra spares boxes, a power drill, my “road” toolbox and a bunch of other stuff, including bills waiting to be paid.[sigh]
My paints, some rulers, a small square and a couple of pairs of pliers are on the wall behind the workbench. A wood silverware organizer that I’ve seen new at Target (but I found mine at a garage sale) holds the paint. The organizer is screwed to the wall horizontally so that the dividers act as shelves.
To my right is a three-drawer nightstand that holds another (large) lamp. The top drawer holds spare paint and the paint brushes and thinner. The middle drawer is the heart of the operation: here’s where you’ll find knives, files, glues and saws. The bottom drawers holds sheet and strip styrene plus a bunch of miscellaneous junk.
One of these days, whenever the time comes and I get a digital camera (that may be fairly soon), I’ll have to show pictures.
Mines pretty big, thanks to the generosity of my friend Airman Jim across the street, my bench is half of his two car garage. But the Bondo rule #32 applies: The available space on a workbench is equal to its area, minus the area of its shadow, plus 2 square feet. Always.
The stuff I care about :
I keep all the parts for a particular project in one of a series of little clear plastic buckets I got when I bought about 10,000 deck screws at 100 each for my back deck job.
I have a spray booth over in the corner.
I store the really big models hanging on a peg board, except for when I get them down and run around the street making “RRRRRHHHH!!!” noises.
My biggest failure is that I don’t have my paint organized on shelves.
My favorite tool is a vernier micrometer that I bought from Sears about 30 years ago. It has positive and negative jaws, a depth gage and is really well made. It can divide, it can transfer dimensions, and it can scribe. Truly a fine tool, I don’t see how I could live without it.
A mess right now, in need of some serious cleanup. I really need to get in the habit of only keeping out what I’m using at the time. Batteries are dead in the camera, I’ll put up a pic when they’re charged.
Sure you’d ask right after I get it cleaned off!
I try to keep it cleaned up so I don’t ‘lose’ things while I’m working. I don’t know how many times I’ve intermingled parts between kits or left my tools in a kit box that I returned to the in-progress stack. I’m working at getting all my tools and accessories inside drawers to keep them clean and organized.
Collapsed, broken down, and packed away until this darn house sells. I guess the realators considered my hobby “clutter”. Could be a while before things get going again boys. Man I miss this stuff.
All I can say is thank GOD that after 3 years of being packed up in rental houses, we bought our own house this summer. Renos are pretty much done and my hobby center is taking shape. Fly tying on one side, models on the other, painting and drawing in another…I can’t complain about my wife. The house is 2000sq ft and she said if she can have the upstairs, I can have the basement. So I have a finished & carpeted 14’ x 45’ area all for me!!!
I miss modeling so much…pretty soon!
Brent
Way too neat and uncluttered. Work and indoor/outdoor honey-do projects have taken precedent.
I am glad I have finished basement. I put there a drafting table (a small one) laying flat. A small TV and DVD player do its job as entertainment during my work - playing shows from Military and History Channel plus Swanny’s DVD [:D] - as shown.
I also havew a terminal with 16inch screen so I can track forum posts while doing models.
I keep at least three models at the time. Each has its own space for rest, however small parts, canopies I keep on the table under heavy glass. This way I do not loose any of them.
Trying to keep tools together in the same order
i just cleaned my work area.
You guys have some nice spreads…I’m stuck in a small dark corner of the basement. In the Medieval Ages, I think they called them dungeons.
My Daughters Cat.
#$&^@# Cat!!!
Max Bryant
Mines a mess now, one Tomcat paint and rattle cans of primer on top of my compressor 1 hobby boss AF 18D one italeri EA 18 growler four super E’s and four tomcats.
Bunch of odds & ends from various stuff in the stash. Haven’t been working on anything for the last few months.
Chris Ish
Like this. Messy messy messy. Once i’m done with the Fencer, it’ll be cleaned until the next victim comes outta the stash
