I currently use the dining room table as my work area. But that has gotten to be a bit of a pain. I have to stop, clean up, make dinner, clean up after that, then drag everything back out. It’s a bit crowded as well. I’ve already upgraded my container for supplies, paints and tools twice.
I thought of a solution though. With winter time fast approaching my time to paint outdoors is dwindling. I had to figure out a way to be able to airbrush in the house, and not bother anyone with fumes.
After discussing it with hubby, the next few days will be spent setting up a new workspace in my bedroom. I’m going to make a small spray booth, and have it vent out our bedroom window that we never use. It’s had plastic over it for several years now. I have an old desk up there with 6 drawers in it, and it’s never used either. I just have to figure out a lighting solution. So tomorrow will be spent gathering supplies to make my new area. I’ll be sure to post pics.
Fermis, that is an AWESOME model room. Wow! I want one too.
Keyda, you’ll love having your own dedicated building area. Kudos for having the patience to use the dining room table for your builds. I know it can’t be easy.
There are some nice Setups on Display here. I set mine up near the Kitchen and Dining area/Lounge. This way I can still talk to my Wife when I am Modelling and she is watching TV…Cheers Mark
I took over the closet in one of our spare bedrooms.
The bench itself is formed from two cabinet sections purchased at the ReStore with a table top of 3/4" (IIRC) plywood. The shelves are from Lowes as are the cabinets on the right, that came from the clearance section at Lowe’s.
The paint rack is a HEAVY steel unit that I picked up at a yerd sale, probably 25 yers ago. It holds most of my Modelmaster and other bottled paints.
The Humbrol/Revell/Xtracolour tins sit on the small drawers on top:
Mickey points the way to the “ready rack” for the paints currently being used.
Cheap lighting reflectors from Wally world hold CFLs give plenty of light. I use grow lights as they seem to be closer to natural light and are easy on the eyes (IMO):
There have been numerous changes over the years as I’ve modified the space from time to time to try to better accomodate my needs. I’ve put most of my resin bits in those plastic drawer unsits on the shelf above the bench.
And to help keep peace in the house when I’m not using said (usually cluttered) space, I can close the doors:
My paint booth is actually an old chemical booth I snapped up from the lab where I worked. Works great, can get the large 1/48 scale planes in it no probelem.
Here’s my workbench. It was taken a little over a year ago after we moved so there a few more builds on the wall and the top is far more cluttered. I built it from a 4x8x1/2 sheet of ply cut to 3x7 with a hickory stair hand rail running down under the center for support. The top is some white laminate glued on for smoothness.
Ok, so I finally got time today to start moving stuff to my new work area. It’s not much at the moment. I picked up a few things for the paint booth, and I’ll get to setting that up soon. I’d like to at some point make a rack to put the paints on, and hang it from the wall. I think it would look better than them all being crammed in a drawer. But for now this will work better than my set up at the dining room table.
