You built a model WHERE?!?!

I used to do most of my building on the dining room table; but the wife decided that that didn't really count as "together time" so she bought me a TV stray and now sit in my big, comfy chair with my  laptop on the TV tray and the current kit du jour on top of that! 

Our 6 year old dachshund can wake up from a dead sleep, jump off the couch and grab a road wheel I just dropped before I can even find in on the floor. 

kitchen table at camp... miles from a LHS... lol

Vance.. buy one of those multi layer Lazy Suzans.. put it on the table.. 1 level for condiments and Salt n Pepper, and 1 layer for tamiya extra thin,, Squadron putty... blades,,, etc. , then get one of those 2 sided diner napkin dispensers.. one side for napkins , one for sanding papers..

p38jl

kitchen table at camp... miles from a LHS... lol

 

Vance.. buy one of those multi layer Lazy Suzans.. ....

Not allowed, my wife's name is Susan....

I have a computer desk in my home office that also functions as a workbench.  Due to my lack of space, I keep a tackle box with my tools and only the paints for the kit I am working on at the time.   I call it my WIP Box, which by the way has drawers large enough for the kit parts.  I do not work off the box, that gets put away.  Part of my routine is I read the instructions, make notes, compile research, and collect all the paints needed, prior to building. I stock my WIP box and it goes with me to where ever I go build.  Sometimes outside in the patio table, on the floor, at work, and once at a park bench.  

I be portable baby!

My WIP box looks like this one here...

VanceCrozier

p38jl:

kitchen table at camp... miles from a LHS... lol

 

Vance.. buy one of those multi layer Lazy Suzans.. ....

 

Not allowed, my wife's name is Susan....

When I lived in an apartment,I would work in the kitchen on a small folding table,this would include airbrushing,which was very unpopular with my wife.Now I only work in the basement at the bench.

One of my co- workers actually models in his service van on lunch and breaks!!

anthony2779

When I lived in an apartment,I would work in the kitchen on a small folding table,this would include airbrushing,which was very unpopular with my wife.Now I only work in the basement at the bench.

 

One of my co- workers actually models in his service van on lunch and breaks!!

p38jl

 

is the like being on the Forums during work ? Lunch ? breaks ?..

 

That makes no sense!  Why would anyone use their lunch or break times for the Forums?  That is what work time is for.

You work for the State too, huh Echo?? 

As soon as I get logged into my computer at work the first place I go is the FineScale forums.  I keep it open pretty much all day!

When I was a kid, my parents were bigtime into tennis (it was the 80s...when the 90s rolled around and they got older, they transitioned right into golf). Often, they'd drag me along to their matches, many of which were more like small tournaments that would last all afternoon.

Bored to death, I would range on my own, and eventually started bringing kits with me. Set up at a table in whatever country club I was in, work out of the box top, even somehow managed to paint stuff that way (Testors enamels, no less!). 

The only kit I distinctly remember building in this fashion was Blue Thunder, but I know there were others...

I used to travel a lot on business early in my career.  If I was going to be in one place for a few days, then I'd pick up something at the local hobby shop to work on in my hotel room in the evenings (versus hanging out at the bar all night).

I had a little "traveling kit" with some basic supplies (hobby knife, some sanding sticks, glue, etc.) and would pick up a few appropriate bottles of paint and some thinner when I bought a kit. 

I can remember a few of them quite clearly:  a 1/72 Testor F/A-18 Hornet in Sarasota; a 1/72 Revell A-7A in Millville, NJ; a 1/48 Monogram AV-8A in Wilson, NC.  Unfortunately, few would survive the trip home intact, and some just got left behind at the hotel (I gave one to a maid to take home to her son).

Mark

RedCorvette

...some just got left behind at the hotel (I gave one to a maid to take home to her son).

 

 

 I usually leave the models and take the maids with me...

As a kid I always built in our basement or in my bedroom. Once I moved out and married I did the kitchen table, then a makeshift spot on an inclosed porch. Next apartment was a rigged area under a basement staircase (that was a wacky building spot). Following the purchase of our first home I have always been lucky enough to designate a spare bedroom for my shop.   I feel very lucky in that respect.

I use to have a dedicated workspace but nowadays I work at the kitchen table...

I can't say that I have not sanded seams while "stocking the pond" with corn-eyed brown trout!

fermis

I can't say that I have not sanded seams while "stocking the pond" with corn-eyed brown trout!

It took me a second... HAHAHA...  Now that you bring that up, I can't say that I have not either.

I've done the kitchen table, the hotel room, and I built a few kits on the floor when I was a kid. I've even done some assembly in bed.......yes, next to the current wife, who was asleep at the time and didn't care anyway. A good way to trim up a few parts and run some glue.

The bench is in the man cave, but my satellite office is on the coffee table in the living room.

While living in a tent...

My home was a GP Medium in the middle of the Saudi desert and my bench was an Army footlocker.. Scored a field desk from generous supply daddy over in Bravo Co. eventually..

laying on my living room floor... no time to organize a workbench yet

So Fermis into Scupper Trout?

I've built plenty at various jobs when I could get away with it.

Hah! totally ordinary the lot of ya :)

My dad has you all beat in spades.

He spent two years YEARS being PAID to run his trains in the office at work as well as paint or whatever.

Granted he has decades of seniority, and the CN was using dad to make a case to the CRTC that our town had no more business and they were filing to close the station. He was paid his full wage to be available to answer a phone that never rang (aside from mom calling him).

The local paper even printed a story about him. The only trains running in town belong to him :)

He'd go to work and play with is train layout there, and come home and play with his train layout at home.

I am fortunate though, I have no need of a 'man cave' hehe snicker.

I work essentially in the kitchen, but then the other half of the main room that houses the kitchen, which might normally be called a dining room if someone else lived in my place, functions as my hobby zone.

I don't have a problem with being in the kitchen, it's my damned kitchen eh.

fermis

I can't say that I have not sanded seams while "stocking the pond" with corn-eyed brown trout!

I think I just changed my mind about going fishing with fermis...

VanceCrozier

fermis:

I can't say that I have not sanded seams while "stocking the pond" with corn-eyed brown trout!

 

I think I just changed my mind about going fishing with fermis...

You have to love those generous supply folks...They make life good or very, very difficult.  I had a similar set up on a wide plank next to my rack that was elevated by MRE boxes until I managed to score a spare folding table on a "Midnight" supply run in Iraq.  I bet they are still looking for that table....

I would say the one that sticks out in my memory most though was when I was a kid living in an apartment that had white carpet.  I had a small desk in my room where I remember assembling a NASCAR type race car, the type and brand escape me now.  My mother threatened me not to spill paint on the carpet...which of course being 10 I did, Testors enamel no less.... Mom was not happy....

VanceCrozier

fermis:

I can't say that I have not sanded seams while "stocking the pond" with corn-eyed brown trout!

 

I think I just changed my mind about going fishing with fermis...

 all though ,, I haven't "modeled" in Fermis' fav "location",,,,

I've done MUCH research while trolling...the "pond"..

Manstein's revenge

 

VanceCrozier:

 

 

fermis:

I can't say that I have not sanded seams while "stocking the pond" with corn-eyed brown trout!

 

 

I think I just changed my mind about going fishing with fermis...

 

I just hope he doesn't fill seams in the same fashion...

 

I will never look at Squadron putty the same way ever again!

He'd go to work and play with is train layout there, and come home and play with his train layout at home.

Ahem... One does NOT  "play with trains"... One "operates a model railroad"...