Share your scale modeling workspace

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 :(
 
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.):D
 
Littlemarten said:
it may get cluttered for a while
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... 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. :cool:
 
BarleyBop said:
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. :cool:
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"Junk is something you keep for twenty years, then throw out the day before you need it." :cool:
 
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.
 
As far as workspace organization (nothing about cleaning) I am enjoying these bins, a term designed to be abided by the UK crowd :)

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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.
 
I've cobbled together some similar stuff from whatever useful looking containers I come across. Because I only work on one project at a time, I don't need more organization than that. Your system is excellent for someone who works on multiple projects at (more or less) the same time. That would drive me "squirrelly bonkers." I'm not obsessive-compulsive, but I do have the tendency. Like a wolverine, once I get my teeth into something, I find it hard to let go. This is NOT necessarily a good thing.
 
Heres mine. I work from home and got a surplus fancy sit/stand desk from my work (they downsized the office). Decided I did not like it in my home office space. It is big but awesome for model space, especially for painting. With touch of a button you can raise it almost to eye level, or lower it to a low desk height. My dream space would have all enclosed base cabinets with full toe kicks and a super clean epoxy floor covering. I spend way to much time searching for tiny parts under that workbench.

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AKRoast said:
That Hornet box and the partially completed one in this photo are giant. I am curious a) where you display these large ships, and b) what did the Hornet kit cost?
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HI AKROAST I havnt got a partialy compleated hornet as its finshed in the red diamon backs sqr an the build is on here in the aircraft section an the partilshall built kit is that big phantom kit in 1/32 scale an the hornet i boughtit with the big 1/32 scale tomcat as got 10 per cent dicount on both kits from hannants moddel kit surplyers so cant tell you the hornets true cost as i bought them nr 6yrs ago just before i started my big HMS TIGER SCRATCH BUILD SORRY i should think it was over a 100 pounds on each kit though AN IM GOIN TO BUY some big shelfs to display all these kits but i like your set up an them planes on the shelfs
ATB very nice layout of them models
CHRISB
 


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