Hey all, I have had a pretty darn messy workbench in the manroom for YEARS. Here is a brief view of it.




WELL, I got some inspiration from something I saw on MicroMarks newest catalog and decided at the same time to fix the mess!!! I made a new desktop organizer. Its 1/2 inch oak boards and 1/4 inch oak boards, with 1/2 and 1 inch PVC pipe pieces. What do you think???







Lets see what everyone else has out there!!

Well Brian mate you wanted to see what other people on the way of work areas ..check this monster out
Old desk to small ..so i got a bigger one and heres some pics of it ..







I call it organized chaos

Phill

normally, i hate taking pictures before cleaning up....

Phil, for whatever reason I cant see your pictures.. says bandwith exceeded with photobucket....

Brian ,,ya photobucket is playing silly buggers ,,should be fine in a couple of days ..seems they were looked at to much

Phill

This is my desk, after I finally got out of the basement, into my own Man Cave. But I still have to airbrush down there. Mine came from our favorite Swedish Store, Ikea.

Phill.. that's a LOT of CD's you got stacked in the back there! And way too many cigarettes in that ashtray I used to have a full ashtray like that on my desk, until I quit about a year ago.. finally!!

Kevin.. that's a very nice looking desk you got there. I'd almost hate to ruin it with glue stains and hobby knife scratches

Hisham

Hey Kevin,

That's disgustingly neat.Was Better Homes and Gardens coming that day?
Mine looks like that for about a day,every few months and then just like everyone elses'.

Tom

Yeah, I have to airbrush in the basement too... and my wife goes BONKERS every time I do it. I am trying to concieve a way to make a poor mans paint booth and vent it out my cellar window. I have an old dryer vent that goes to the outside... thinking some dryer hose to a home made booth but lost on how to provide the negative pressure ....

LOL, airbrush table pictures will be inbound tomorrow!!!

Yours looks pretty good.I bought a Lowes workbench a few years ago for $169.00 I think.Its in the utility side of the basement,it works for me







also threw in some pics of the modest stash

Hisham ,, thats two days worth of smoke butts in there and yep i'm giving it up too ..had enough .. and as for the dvd's ...thats not even half of the pile i got lol .. more than a thousand in total ..i'm a movie buff

Kevin it seems our desks are bloody near a copy lol seems you like good sound to ..got a heap of power in mine too

Anthony ,, looks like you copied Brian's lol ..what is it with us modellers ?
Great minds think alike is how the old saying goes aint it ?

Phill

Tony, I had the same workbench at my last apartment before I got married!!! TOO FUNNY!!! I like the lazy susan paint tray.....

We are all a rather ingenious bunch arent we!

Well...

Normally, in keeping with the princple to not air one's dirty laundry in public, I keep this chaotic mess undisclosed, but since the old work room was looking particularly SNAFU and seeing as how (after looking at the above posts ) I was obviously in such good company, here's a quick peek at my work bench:



Once place to make building messes, and one place to make painting messes, and yet another to make just general messes!

I hope you guys find it as inspiring as I do!

Have a great armor model-building kinda day!

Here are a few pics of the workbench at home,





One place to build and one to paint. As far as painting in the house goes, well it's my house, and my wife just puts off doing laundry when I'm spraying


I will post pics of my current workbench in the barracks when i get off work tonight.


cheers

I forgot to put in a picture of my Iraq work bench... Being in an Engineer Battalion helped immensely, because all the tools and wood were easily scarfable... hehe





only built one model the whole year, but honestly I think aside from my first model ever, it was the most fun kit I had ever built. Old school tools, paints, techniques. Doug and John if your out there... those kits meant the world to me!

Gosh you guys are a mess.......
Cool Iraq workbench set up Brian, especially the M4?..The white thing on the left looks like a mini fridge?

Here's my benches..

You are 100% correct Nick! Roomie and I went halves on a brand new fridge and a 22 inch Tv with a DVD player in it.. Somehow it all ended up on my half of the room. I loved that M-4... NEVER gave me problems other than mud in the Flash supressor (Im sort of SHORT). My Bed is also about 3 feet off the floor, I screwed 2x4s onto the legs so I could put my duffel and my footlocker, along with my IBA and Helmet UNDER the bed. (couple times it proved handy under there LOL_)

Well you sure know how to make best use of the space you have.
And I can only guess there must be a good stock of in the fridge...Such would be my dream!

Well I don't have the privilege of going to bed with an M4...but I do appreciate a trusty weapon that don't jam up on me...but that would be my uniform days donkey years ago.

SHORT is good my friend, gets a bit more face to face when speaking with the ladies...not like the tall guys.... LOL

Oh my gosh SdAufKla!! When I grow up I want to have a hob, err I mean a factory/warehouse set-up like you have!! Do you employ workers to man each station?

All the kidding aside, nice place!


~ Jeff

Yeah, Mike, that is some kind of cool setup!!! Is that post and beam construction!????? What part of SC, my father lives in Murrells Inlet, and a very close friend of mine lives in Beaufort.

Rick - I used to have that desk....

Mine did not stay clean for long. It was new when I took the last pics.



And here is a few of my airbrushing set up in the dungeon. Since I almost always use acrylics, I am not venting outside, but vent through a couple of filters, including a charcoal one.

Here is my humble work space.


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It is all going to change very soon as I am having a new top and shelves made to go top of the desk it will give me about 75% more work space.

Couple of shots of the workbench. 1/72 scale armour and figures, But I scratchbuild 1/72 scale armour
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OK....I just gave a seminar at AMPS East on the mancave. Here are the slides from the presentation

http://www.redleg2scale.com/RBMI%20Info/Studio%20Presentation.pdf

If you want to just see the bench....

http://www.redleg2scale.com/Bench.html

Hope some of the ideas in the presentaion help.

Rounds Complete!!