Share your scale modeling workspace

[BarleyBop]

Here's mine

Lucky to have a feline sentry gard against the styrene gremlins!

 

[papaof2]

Lucky to have a feline sentry gard against the styrene gremlins!

She is the gremlin. Have to secure everything when done or parts will be missing.

 

[Littlemarten]

There is no room for anything else:

Part of the spray booth setup

 

[Bob T]

Pretty much my whole life I've built at the dining room or kitchen table, even though I've always had a hobby bench in the garage or basement.
I keep most of my stuff in the garage, and just bring what I need to the table inside. I can pack the whole thing up in a few minutes if needed.

I just like it. Close to the kitchen, an outside view, tv, and a little company.

 

[Littlemarten]

Pretty much my whole life I've built at the dining room or kitchen table, even though I've always had a hobby bench in the garage or basement.
I keep most of my stuff in the garage, and just bring what I need to the table inside. I can pack the whole thing up in a few minutes if needed.

I just like it. Close to the kitchen, an outside view, tv, and little company.

Love your "assistant!"

 

[Edbert]

Love your "assistant!"

Looks more like a supervisor to me!

 

[BarleyBop]

Added a couple of under counter frosted drawers today, anything to make room on the bench!

I'm even thinking that if left open, their strategic placement between me and the cutting mat might make good 'catchers' for a % of the AWOL parts flying off the sprue.

Either that or I start wearing one of those baby bibs with a catch-all pocket!

 

[urumomo]

stick tape across the part to the sprue so it can't escape .
cutting atop a piece of foam core double face tape allows for quick repeat cuts

 

[Edbert]

strategic placement between me and the cutting mat might make good 'catchers' for a % of the AWOL parts flying off the sprue.

That might help, but I see a fatal flaw in your setup (if it were me working there at least), that trash can is within 20 feet, small parts will deviate from their tweezer-assigned flight-path and go there!

(yeah, I still do not know what happened to my F-104 wing)

 

[BarleyBop]

fatal flaw

That's no flaw, that's on purpose! I could do a longitudinal statistical analysis of the odds of a piece flying in there... and yes it has happened, and yes I do look in there.

Unfortunately, the odds of finding a piece is inversely proportional to the likelihood of you looking somewhere, so known landing sites get statistically annulled over time. At which point, they start catching parts again, precisely because you've stopped looking there for the aforementioned reason.

I think we may have unlocked the secret to sighting the Loch Ness monster and my car keys!

 

[Littlemarten]

Added a couple of under counter frosted drawers today, anything to make room on the bench!

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Either that or I start wearing one of those baby bibs with a catch-all pocket!

I have a shop apron with very large pockets all along the bottom. Works very well when I remember to wear it.

And your work space is luxurious!

 

[GaryG64]

Added a couple of under counter frosted drawers today, anything to make room on the bench!

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I'm even thinking that if left open, their strategic placement between me and the cutting mat might make good 'catchers' for a % of the AWOL parts flying off the sprue.

Either that or I start wearing one of those baby bibs with a catch-all pocket!

I made a little trough at the lip of my table. It has worked many times is saving my parts.

 

[BarleyBop]

luxurious

I've had the extreme good fortune to inherit a space left over from the expansion of another room.
Too narrow for a bed, and not suited to just about anything else, it is now my fiefdom, where I rule with a firm but kindly hand over my styrene subjects!

 

[BarleyBop]

It has worked many times is saving my parts.

I'm glad this is a modeling forum!

 

[PatW]

You are very lucky to have such large houses and therefore large spaces and rooms. We don't in the UK have basements/cellars in our houses, they are normally only in the very large city houses of £2-3m.

 

[lacrosse dad]

Added a couple of under counter frosted drawers today, anything to make room on the bench!

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I'm even thinking that if left open, their strategic placement between me and the cutting mat might make good 'catchers' for a % of the AWOL parts flying off the sprue.

Either that or I start wearing one of those baby bibs with a catch-all pocket!

Absolutely thinking about a bib, the older you get the further away from the table and closer to your eyes you need, anything dropped goes immediately to the floor.....

 

[Edbert]

You are very lucky to have such large houses and therefore large spaces and rooms. We don't in the UK have basements/cellars in our houses, they are normally only in the very large city houses of £2-3m.

It is true, I am working-class here in Texas, but my house is almost 4,000 sq/ft, my small truck is an F-150 Raptor (the big one is a Superduty) and I have an 800-acre ranch with actual cattle. I doubt the Raptor could fit down some roads in the UK, certainly could not park anywhere.



I do not manage the herd, someone pays me a "grass lease" to put theirs on my property.

 

[lacrosse dad]

You are very lucky to have such large houses and therefore large spaces and rooms. We don't in the UK have basements/cellars in our houses, they are normally only in the very large city houses of £2-3m.

I'm with you, bought childhood home from parents....single story, 3 bedrooms and a bath built in 1954. My work space is the newspaper and cardboard protected dining room table with a rolling tool chest for my supplies.

 

[BarleyBop]

Lucky...large houses

By an odd coincidence, this house was actually built in 1876 by a British widow, who came to Canada with three children. She was very enterprising, building stables next door and supplying the lumberyards and businesses down the hill with horses and wagons! The house is perched on the edge of an escarpment, so we have a 'partial', 'wet basement', with bits of cliff and a low ceiling.
Ottawa, sitting at the confluence of three rivers, was a booming lumber town, and down the hill from here, by the river, was a rough and tumble assortment of saloons, rooming houses, lumberyards, and wild men come down the rivers from the northern stands of virgin pine forests.
She would have seen that whole industrial area burned to the ground along with the businesses and homes, not once but twice! Being on the edge of the rock escarpment saved the house from the flames.
The (retired federal court justice) father of a friend of mine years ago made this woodblock print... you can see the escarpment in the background. So it fittingly hangs in the 'parlour', a reminder of days gone by.

 

[GCB]

Living in an apartment, but managed to get one room for painting and my main bench is

in living room..
Just built some shelves for the paints I use the most... remaining will go in a small metallic filing cabinet with drawers.

 

[BarleyBop]

Except for @Pantherman , how many of us come back to the bench the next morning and think: "Whoa! That must have been some party!"

Now I have to clean it up.

 

[Pantherman]

Except for @Pantherman , how many of us come back to the bench the next morning and think: "Whoa! That must have been some party!"

Now I have to clean it up.

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It's freaking me out just looking at that bench......Pantherman

 

[Jakko]

About 15 years ago, I used to know someone that I played WH40K with occasionally. He had his hobby room in a large-ish shed at the bottom of his garden, inside of which there was a workbench along the whole short side of the room — maybe 2 to 2.5 metres long and probably close to a metre deep. This was literally covered in tools, parts, half-built (or half-disassembled) models and toys, bits of interesting stuff, and plenty more. The only time the actual work surface was visible was when he was digging around for something. He built his 40K models on top of all the crap, or in spaces he sort of cleared to do that in.

I really wish I had a photograph of it, but this was before iPads were a thing, so the couple of times I was over at his house, I didn't have a camera with me

 

[Littlemarten]

Bless this mess …

I cannot work like that. Oh, it may get cluttered for a while when working on a particular phase of construction, but I clean and straighten things out when that phase is done. This comes from work habits necessary to my former career—misplacing samples, or portions thereof, is a scientific disaster. Tools and instruments need to be immediately available at all times.

When we first started working in a building with engineers, some of them had the idea that our equipment and tools were open and available for their (unqualified, and often unsafe) use. This caused serious problems, and didn't end until they were informed by the company president that a second offense would result in immediate termination, no matter who they were. This is one of the reasons for my antipathy toward structural engineers (present company excepted, in case any of you are or were structural engineers. Other species of engineers were rarely, if ever, a problem.)

 

[BarleyBop]

it may get cluttered for a while

... some days it stays organized, some days not.
But always gets sorted before the next step.

And it does depend on how a mind works.
... a self locking nut (that secured the blade) had fallen off a tree branch extension pole last summer.

I looked at it, paused, said to my wife: "wait here, I have just the thing".

At least 30 years, half a dozen moves, and who knows how many hardware re-orgs, I emerged 5 minutes later from the basement with a lock nut that had been on my old Raleigh 10 speed bicycle.

And it fit. Perfectly.

 

[Littlemarten]

I looked at it, paused, said to my wife: "wait here, I have just the thing".

At least 30 years, half a dozen moves, and who knows how many hardware re-orgs, I emerged 5 minutes later from the basement with a lock nut that had been on my old Raleigh 10 speed bicycle.

And it fit. Perfectly.

"Junk is something you keep for twenty years, then throw out the day before you need it."

 

[GaryG64]

"Junk is something you keep for twenty years, then throw out the day before you need it."

True words!

 

[Edbert]

I earned the nickname "Hazel" back in the 1980s, given to me by coworkers who were razzing me about constantly cleaning and organizing my work area. I figure many/most of you are old enough to know who Hazel was.

 

[GaryG64]

I earned the nickname "Hazel" back in the 1980s, given to me by coworkers who were razzing me about constantly cleaning and organizing my work area. I figure many/most of you are old enough to know who Hazel was.

I loved Hazel!

 

[Edbert]

As far as workspace organization (nothing about cleaning) I am enjoying these bins, a term designed to be abided by the UK crowd

Very inexpensive, and modular, and interlocking.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KYJ947Q/ref=ewc_pr_img_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

Top is J2M3 ZM parts, below that Kotare Spit, then the small bits are for an Adversary Falcon and a Gaza (2004)-Merkava. Below them is a North African B-25, beside a 1945 KI-61.