My workspace

When I lived in California, my workbench was a crude thing consisting of a piece of plywood placed atop a smaller table and a black plastic 15-gallon nursery pot; the kind used for selling young trees. It was actually a combination workbench/dining room table/typing table. Modeling equipment was kept in drawers or later, a fishing tackle box.

When I moved to Arizona, my roommate (who stayed behind) gave me the piece of furniture from the bedroom that he had a lot of his stuff on. Once settled into my new apartment, I screwed the plywood down onto his furniture, set up a different set of drawers and I had a new workbench. Over the 2 1/2 years I've lived here, my workbench has undergone tweaking and adjusting that still continues to this day, but it's certainly a lot more efficient than it was in California! Unfortunately, I have no digital camera or photo scanner, so I can't show you, but it works pretty well.

I also have a small workbench outside my door for the times when it's warm enough to model outside but not too warm. (Right now, it's definitely not good modeling-outside weather here in Phoenix; today's high was 110 degrees and tomorrow it's supposed to hit 112.) I also now have a separate set of tools, plus little divided containers perfect for holding subassemblies, spare parts, etc. that all fit into a large ice chest so I can now take my modeling on the road!

Here are some pics of my desk and collection.  As you can see, I do not have many armor or aircraft models at the present time, but I do have quite an extensive collection of kits. Maybe I should liquidate some to make room for more armor and aircraft...

Naturally the desk isn't that neat now, but it's still not too disorganized and cluttered. I've got enough kits to last a lifetime, and then some..that's for sure...

My little part of the house that the wife let's me use!!

Well here's my workspace, both for pc stuff and modelling. Even threw in a couple shots of the "storage area" LOL

This really sucks,we`re all so stressed for space to work in yet we all get the job done!! I remember as a kid growing up in Hamilton Ont.going to a kids club on Saturday morning where one could do all kinds of stuff,even sleepovers with pizza,scared the crap out of ya with all the old building noises,anyways,wouldn`t it be cool to have a large building dedicated to modellers who needed somewhere to build where everyone knows everyone,be quite the hub of activity wouldn`t it!

Just dreamin! Really good idea about showing our display shelves Tony!

This is really a cool idea - to show everybody the actual place where all the diorama magic is happening! I imagined that all diorama builders practically lived and worked in a basement (just an idea I have had), but now I can see that some people sometimes gets a little bit of sun light throught the windows.

What about taking some pics of the shelfs with the dio collection or the heap of unbuilt models that probably all modellers have in their homes? ("So many dioramas to build, so little time...")

/Tony aka bultenibo

Like I said it's never this tidy, the photo was taken just after completing fitting the work area out, like you I want bigger areas for display recently I've put up some shelving but this is fast losing space, so I'm looking at putting up some sort of display area in My loft space (Money & time permitting Oh & permission from the wife).

Scott.

Nice lookin workspace Scotty,my dream is to someday have a seperate outbuilding large enough to build in

and display a few pieces as well,maybe a little lounge area to view video footage,movies etc.It`s only a dream though.

Main problem I`m finding right now is not haveing everything I need when putting a dio together at arms length,having to stop and

and search stuff out while in the process of creating ruins the train of thought.

Here's my workspace it's never this tidy though even now I,m moving things around to get the keyboard on the desk.

Scott.

The Mage wrote:

. Who is the person hiding in left of the photo :>

Ha, just noticed that too.

Small space, but some amazing work has come out of there. Mine's not much bigger.

Nice place. It's like a chinese bazar, have every thing.

Space is not metter, just the art skill.

Bye

All my stuff is on a 3' x 3' card table - just picture all your stuff on that table hehe.

But i still get things done. Who is the person hiding in left of the photo :>