Workshop and model stash pics

Sorry, thats ridiculous. There should be no reason why you can't copy and paste an image if its being hosted. My bad. Back to the drawing board.

I guess you could go here http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/upload and look at them.

Seems to work for me, using your pictures:

Just get the URL and post that in the IMG tags. It should work fine. Anyways, it's a very nice workshop, clean, tidy, with everything in easy reach.

I see you added what everyone needs in there workshop a custom coke and chip table.

Thad

Here is mine:

Mike;

Nice looking shop. Here are a few pic's of mine.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/gburdon/ShopWarning.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/gburdon/Bench01.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/gburdon/Bench02.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/gburdon/Spraybooth.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/gburdon/SprayboothFilter.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/gburdon/Reference01.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/gburdon/Reference02.jpg

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c242/gburdon/TheStash.jpg

It is a work in progress so please be kind. My wife (Architect) is designing all the floor plans for the basement of our new place. I couldn't wait to unpack and get something of a shop set up until the plans are finished and I actually have some walls to enclose my little hideaway.

Some of the pics may be a little dark (using an older camera new one is still packed somewhere) 

The best part about my shop is most of the kit was free.

Yes that's right friends and neighbours I said free. I picked up my 6' X 3' Hard Rock Maple Topped workbench and the chair in Toronto prior to them going into a dumpster. The second bench also was rescued from a dumpster toss along with seven of its cousins in Cambridge. The lighting was picked up similarly along the way. 

Recently I my "conversion" spraybooth to the bench. I scrounged two fume extraction systems from a company that was doing some Fall cleaning. Each NEDERMAN unit apparently retail cost them $2500.00 my cost was a cup of Tim Horton's coffee and the pick up. The "booth" itself is (get this) an IKEA bedside table with the center drawer removed and a $3.00 heat duct cut into the back and hooked to the Nederman. Total time from start to finish about 5 hours give or take with pick up and return to home and a stop at the Home Depot. Thanks to bgrigg for his advice prior to the build. Yes Bill I have a spraybooth now! " src="/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_tongue.gif">
On the bench are some of my best finds at garage sales and auctions

Delta 16" variable speed scroll saw $50.00 new in the box at an auction " src="/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_big.gif">
Dremel 4" Table Saw $15.00 Garage Sale
Mattel Vac U Form machine $5.00 Garage Sale
Auto Etch Photo Etching Machine $30.00 Garage Sale " src="/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_evil.gif">
Dremel Lathe $25.00 eBay
Paasche Compressor Model 500 - $1.50 at a garage sale Brand New

So check around is my best advice you never know what you'll find. Just stay away from my hunting grounds of auctions and garage sales. Anything South of Antarctica is fair game, the rest of the area belongs to me. " src="/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_big.gif">

Enjoy the pics and please heed the sign at the start of the list while you visit my shop " src="/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_tongue.gif">

Cheers;

Gregory

Ross;

My mother used to complain about my scrounging ability. Then I got married....my wife really complained "What are you going to do with that?" was a common question in daily life.....until

eBay! I listed items on eBay and then suddenly the questioning stopped. Now my scrounging is allowed and even (dare I say it) appreciated.....

I look at it this way, if I can get it free (best) or cheap it is money I don't have to take from something else like the latest kit (Or shoes for my wife...or an extension to the house to store them)

Cheers;

Gregory

Thanks Zoki. I like it.

Nice setup Gregg. Looks like you can do just about anything in your shop. Looks like your setup might be in the basement also. Scares me sometimes. You never know what waterpipe might break or what toilet mightl overflow. Price you pay for being in the basement I guess.

Thanks for posting everyone, awesome!!!

Mike;

I never worry about that. I had a choice of one of the bedrooms in the house, but chose the basement as I can have my wife (architect) design the layout with me and I won't be restricted by someone else's idea of how/where walls are/should be.

You're right I can pretty much do anything with the kit I have amassed over the years. I like the fact that I don't have to rely on what is produced. Currently, I am working on a completely scratchbuilt Commonwealth vehicle from World War II. I am hoping to have it done for a competition in Guelph in the coming months. I don't mean to be secretive, but I want to build something original for competing and have worked a lot of hours to gather the necessary references and draw up the plans etc. etc. Once it is done, I will post pictures.

Cheers;

Gregory 

You certainly have all tools needed to do some scratchbuilding.

I haven't advanced that far yet with my abilities but I'm getting there.

A clean and well supplied workshop helps alot.

Would like to see what it is that your building, make sure you post pics when your done and good luck.

Happy modeling  

Mike

Here is my current space- with stash:

And hopefully by this summer-- the future room:

this is one of my favorite type of posts i love seeing other peoples stashs and work areas

say Gburdon on your reference pictures what do you keep in those nice big blue binders?

Durr;

In the Blue Binders are every issue of FSM from the 1982 Test Issue to the Current issue by year. In the Black are Military Modeler Magazine all issues from 1974-1998 when they stopped publication. As well in two of the Blue Binders are the Great Scale Modelling and Modelling World War II Special Issues. I use a magazine holder for each that I picked up at a local office supply store. I slip it over the centre staple line of the magazine and it has three hole punches on the tab that I then insert into the binder rings. They come conveniently in packs of 12. So it makes it easy to store all the current issues of the year and the "specials" that come out during the year as well. It really makes it easy to answer questions from the forum when I can just grab the right binder from the shelf and go to the indez from the website of the past articles and find the right Month/Year of Magazine.

I also keep my "reference" notes of current and future projects in one. I photocopy all the relevant article(s), drawings, photographs, etc. etc. and have a ready reference on the bench without having to sift through the entire pile. The copies are kept in page protectors that clip into the binder. I find it works well for me.

The binders were a "scrounge" a company local to me was doing some spring cleaning and filled an entire dumpster with binders. I salvaged the ones you see in the pics plus three huge boxes. 90% were still wrapped in packaging. As the saying goes "One man's junk....anothers treasure" I figured it out at an average of $4.00 a binder and I salvaged close to 200. You do the math. It ends up putting more cash back in the model kit fund. 

If you need anything else. Let me know, the library is always open... well when I am not building.

Cheers;

Gregory

Here is my work shop I built about two years ago.

kingthad your workarea is great

that hammer on the red tool box ,is that for when you have a problem with a model

I use the hammer when Im working with those trouble some p e parts. The p e part ar'nt recognizable when Im done but I sure feel better

Thad

Some nice work areas here.  I just moved to a new house middle of last year so here is my hastily constructed work area in the garage. 

This was taken a couple of months ago so it has filed out a little bit more and is starting to feel a little more homey!

Good looking shops guys.

C'mon, lets keep sending them in.

This could be THE post for pics of workshops.

Yeah baby. 

I've always wanted a post with alot of pics of modelers hangouts.

Don't know why I find other workbenches so interesting to look at.

Ok, I'm retarded.

This was my work bench for a couple of years

And when it was clean

Then after my son was born and started to walk (ie wreck stuff) I thought having an open work space with readily accesable work knives etc wasn't such a top idea, so I scrounged together some MDF and built this abortion

Have moved house since and still have the same bench, but am planning some mods for it to make it more ME friendly. Maybe a larger work area, has gotten a tad crowded with a couple of larger models.

For now it's all self contained, spray booth is ducted outside, and all the more used items are within arms reach.

Everything else is in the cupboard.

Thats right.

Thats what this is all about, inspiration and ideas.

Keep it going.

this is part of my stash

Thats alotta stash.

Wheres the built stuff?

You know, the objects of your attention?  : )