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My 'workbench' consists of the same 18" square portion of a small table as it has for many years. Here it is a few years back when I was building that F-15J. However I recently bought a lovely old piece of furniture at a car boot sale for a fiver ($9) - I think it's a kind of sewing box - in which I now keep all the tools; the paints remain in a small wooden box I bought a few years back.

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No fancy workshops here, just an ordinary and quite smallish desk in our bedroom from the late 1930's that we recently bought. It needs some fixing, but otherwise it's solid as a rock - as opposed to the Ikea crap we will never be buying again.

All the supplies are on the wall cabinet (not visible) on the right side of the table. Yeah, I clean my desk after a build session. :thumbsup:

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OK...this is where I hope some of the magic will happen. I'm hoping that I can get a small camping chair in there...and be able to use that as my assembly area.

My wife says I'm nuts. She says, better to grab a space in the dining-room or the living room and have a desk there.

And here's the paint-room. A bit drafty and cold in the wintertime with the door open for ventilation, but hey, it's insulated...(Thanks so much, Landlord, I am so grateful).

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Better shots of my stash:

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My wife's stash (lower shelf) and 1st level of my stash...

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Better peek at Level 1 and part of Level 2

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Level 2 of my stash...

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Level 3 of my stash...be energy conscious, use compact fluorescent bulbs...lower your hydro/electrical bill...save your money...blow it on kits. :rofl:

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Would like to show you, but I didn't bring my camera! You see, we went looking for a new house today, and I think I found the one. And here's where it gets good: It has not one, but TWO WORKBENCHES already built in. One in the basement (and though it's an unfinished basement it's a nice work area, not dingy or anything) and one in the garage.

I'm thinking the basement one will be modeling central...and there's a built-in shelf unit in the living room that will display my glorious creations.

Oohrah!

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Okay, I know at the beginning of this thread the caveat was, "No cleaning of the bench prior to taking the photos." Well I didn't exactly clean it...I just got done building a whole NEW workstation. I built it in a 8' X 10' room in my basement over by the fuse panel. It's in a U- shape and everything is within arm's reach. The computer is ther along with TV, cable, DVD player, CR (yeah..still got one of those) and a small refirgerator. So I didn't clean it..I just haven't USED it yet to build anything...LOL But I will. Here's a few photos..

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The spray Booth Room. It's 5' X 7' off the main room and has a sink in it.

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Left side

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Right side

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Part of stash

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My original 1968 vintage Unimat lathe

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The other side of the paint room showing the paint rack and dehydrator

There are a couple more photos on my Fotki site here... http://public.fotki.com/tsumner/

Hope you guys lilke it!

Terry Sumner

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My son has pretty much taken over the garage as his work area but this is the actual "bench" he's been using for the past couple months. BTW, that's the Hasegawa 1/48 F-16CJ kit and he told me it's one of the best fitting kits he's ever put together.

Mark

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Here's a better shot of mine I took last night while snapping pics of my in-progress (Trumpeter F-14D). I had a table-mounted magnifier/light on it at one point, but I moved it over to the other table out there (not shown in photo) because I so rarely use it.

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Here is my compact mess, sweet mess. There is an office desk under there somewhere:

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Guarded by a piece of subframe from a crashed A-4, and a set of expended 20mm casings. Stash stored in another part of the house. Any painting not of the brushing kind done in the adjacent back porch.

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Here's where I work. So much space, and yet so cluttered :wacko:

CLUTTERED? I see at least 9 sq. inches of workspace there. Might as well be a football field compared to what my bench usually seems to end up like.

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