Hi guys,what do your workplaces look like?I work on my models only on my desk in my bedroom and store paintings in my store room,what is your ideal workplace?
Photo and any opinios are welcomed
Thanks
Tim Lo

I work on my models on an old coffee table in my basement. Nothing too fancy here. Hope to have a better setup in the new yr.

My wife put you up to this? My stuffs on a card table in front of the boob tube in the basement. Except for painting which I do in the workshop. Generally I get too comfortable. My wife asks me when i'm going to tidy up. I answer when I finish the model. Only proplem is that "the"model has been under way for years! Maybe I'll sort it out when I retire.

Mine use to be a nice old kitchen table, in the upstairs. But since I moved, my dad's kitchen table is working fine, for now.

~Chip :-)

I do a lot of my building at work.
I work a rotating shift, in a boiler room, and use the desk.
I hook up my airbrush to one of the air conpressors we have running for
our controls.
When I'm home I have a small set up in the corner of the bedroom.

I'm pretty darn lucky. My wife and I just moved into a new house with more than enough room, so I have an entire room just for modeling.

The room is about 7'X15'. In it I have three drafting tables that I can spread my various projects out on. Plus loads of shelves for AM goodies and books. On the other side of the room I have all my kits stacked. Let me tell you, it's heaven having a room of my own just for my hobby.

Perhaps I will post pics when I can find the cord to my bloody digital camera.

Stuke

Simply put * A mess!!
Basement workshop.

this is my workplace. A corner shaped bench tools all over and some other closets around for the stuff not to be affected by dust. And youre lucky to see it after a major cleanup. one every 5 years !!!!

Nothing to celebrate here.
This is my working corner/CPU unit in the corner of our living room. The actual working space is the size of the keyboard plus mouse. All the airbrushing I have to do outside in the front yard. All teh modeling euipment fits in that shelf!
Sometimes it feels like living in a miniature...


Toni

My wife doesn't let me build in the living room, so I moved my stuff to the garage and made a desk and shelfs there, it only has a real small heater, so every now and then I have to go back to to the house to heat myself up (and see my wife)

My wife and I converted our garage to living area this year. We added about 250 square feet of living room. Net result I now have LESS space for my modeling than I did before. I've got a old card table as my desk with my unbuilt kits either in a plastic tote or on the top shelf of the closest. I HOPE to be able to build a storage shed in the back yard that will be part garage, part wife's workshop, part my workshop. Based on past experience I'm sure I'll get the short stick of THAT space also.

Hi. Like Jurgen, my work place is out in the garage. Nice in the spring and fall, but too hot in the summer and way too cold in winter. My son bought me a little blower type of item from Snap-On tools for Xmas one year and it does help in the summer, to some extent. And I also have one of those little ceramic heaters that also helps, to some extent as well, in the winter time as long as I don't stay out there for too long a period. And I keep all my paints in the house during the cold season and only take them out in the garage to paint and then move them right back in again.

I keep telling myself that I'm going to rig up some kind of light/magnifier system one of these days for in-home use during the winter, but never seem to get around to doing it. Oh well. Such is life.

Maybe it's a good thing that most of the stuff is out in the garage anyway, as it tends to be an organized mess out there at the best of times, and about the only time I get around to giving this space a good cleaning is when I happen to seen a part flying off into the 'vast unknown' and I start moving things around seraching for it, which, luckily, as far as cleaning goes, is just often enough to keep things from getting totally out of hand. Ha!

One of the interesting things about this occasional cleaning is that I tend to find the part(s) that I've lost before and have searched high and low for, without success before, and had to either scratch-build the piece or been luckily eough to find a resonable substitute in the spares box. Again, such is one of the downfalls of this hobby for me. Ha!

Take care, sgirty

A spare bedroom( all of my children are grown up, married and moved away) is my workshop, study, office area. It is much better (and warmer) than down in my dungeon of a basement. Of course it is always in a state of transition from messy to clean and back again.
capnjock

WHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOL (sounds VERY familiar!!)
:-)

My work space does doble duty as my computer desk, I built a folding tabletop next to the desk and it gives me about 3 1/2 more square feet to work with:

Now all I have to do is organize the opposite end of the room for more storage (new kits :-))

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I think I am on of the lucky one's here. I've got a whole room to myself for modelling, pc,...(only have to share it with the cat sometimes) as does my wife for her stuff(no kids, yet ). The room therefore is an absolute war zone, my wife refuses to enter it unless she absolutely needs to use the pc. The room is also locked and barred whenever visitors come over because she is embarrassed for MY room. To top it off I've also taken possession of part of the basement for the heavy stuff (lathe, bench drill,...) and I agreed she could also have a part.
The part with the washing machine and dryer that is .

Now let's see what will happen if there ever will be kids

Kris

Well after a split up and and a new location for me. A one bedroom Apt. My Round glass top Dinnette table serves as my modeling area. At least the building process anyway. BUT the good news is that I still have access to my old location for the spray painting process. At least for now anyway. As she might be moving to someplace different sometime early this coming year. Which means I will have to figure out a way to set things up on my patio for that part of the process. And My desk is a pretty big one. While the patio is a typical sized patio. Also on the second floor. Facing away from the parking lot. i.e. The back of the building.So it will get intreresting lugging that thing up a couple of flights of stairs. And then if and when I move next year the same process reversed. So Anyway, I have in some ways a little better and in someways a little worse set up than before. BUT either way. I have begun building again and for now....It Works !!

I converted our second bedroom into my computer/hobby room.

I consider myself pretty lucky. I just bought my new house and the basement has about 2300 sq ft of unfinished space. I have already worked up some plans that will include a very nice work shop. (:-)

i work in the basment.
i have a pretty big desk.
and if i have to spray paint i spray out side,
but if ist winter i spray in the basement and i get my mom mad lol.
thats why i want a spary booth down there,
and the other side of the basement is my dad wood working shop.
he has a table saw a rotar a drill press.
and all the goodys

Well, saving up to buy a place of my own in a few years, I am quite lucky with this:



that dark space on the left is my 'spraycabin'...

You can check out some of the workbenches here
https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/261
Note: these are Pre Clean up - so envision them without the clutter!!! #:-)

well, I just have to show off...(man, you are one big show-off!)




I have it good, the whole basement except for the washer/dryer room, bathroom, and furnace room.

Well, since Slodder brought it up, here are before and afters of my pitiful work area. You have to figure, people from Minnesota spend a lot more time in their basements than those of from Indiana. LOL @ Jacques!!
I did clean my room, Jan, thanks for the motivation!!

Shaun

The before...



The after...



One gallon of mistinted paint from Lowes and a couples of hours later. A repaint of the table is next.

Thanks for asking....

Shaun

To those of you that have to "share the space w/computers stations or dinner/coffee tables or a corner of the bedroom, i salute thee. You turn out works of art in areas meant for other purposeses.
To the others that maintain a space dedicated to modeling, either in the house, garage or (like me)sharing space with holiday decoration stored away in rubbermaid containers (43 and counting) in a steel building in the backyard...near the "van down by the river") a fond heart-felt salute to thee also.

"We're scale model builders...constructors of military vehicles, dioramas, figures,warships and aircrafts."

Sure, when we tell someone what we do in our sparetime the person will double-take and
ask "you build what?" Well, repeat it with pride. They don't know the joy and satifaction garnered from a task completed well above the norms. They will never know the pride we feel from acomplishing a project to the end, and then some. They will never know the pain of cutting your finger tips apart because you didn't think you needed the de-bonder you saw on the shelf for sale at the hobby shop after...er...wait...ok...forget that last part.

Like I said:

"I Salute You All. Fellow Members of ARMORAMA"

you complete me...

kglack

.hey Jacques, is that red shag carpet on the wall?