(Road) Testing 1, 2, 3...
This all started when I set up a small workbench for modeling outdoors. You see, here in Phoenix, especially in spring and fall, the weather is often terrific for modeling outside! (In the summer, of course, it's too hot!) So I like to set up outside when I have the chance. The trouble was determining what exactly to bring to the outside workbench. I would bring out what I think I'm going to use for a particular session and set to work. Ten minutes later, I would realize I need the wire cutters and have to go in and get them. Sit back down and work on the model for ten minutes more. Now I gotta check something in my references! Go back inside and take a look. Outside again and after another ten minutes, it's time to open the flat black paint. "%*$#, I forgot the PAINT STIRRERS!" Go back inside and get the stirrers!
So, fed up with bouncing up and down like a Jack-in-the-box, I made a new portable tool box and I also found some compartmentalized plastic containers perfect for holding scrap plastic, small parts, bits of metal and wood, small sub-assemblies, you name it. These containers were nice and compact in size and I quickly decided I would like to be able to take my model with me on the road someday.
That "someday" is tomorrow night. I'll be driving to Orange County, California for a few days and my portable tool box is ready to go. The model and all those nice little bits and pieces of scrap styrene and subassemblies and so forth fit beautifully in a large ice chest Mother gave me last year. All I have to do is throw it in the car after work tomorrow and I'm out of here! I'll be coming back late Saturday night (the 20th), although I probably won't be on these forums until later next week. I'll let you know how my portable tool box worked.