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  • Member since
    January 2013
Posted by jibber on Sunday, February 8, 2015 8:51 AM

I'd like to show my workspace thats a separate room in our basement. I'm very lucky to be "allowed" a big  area like this and to the other side of the room is a lot of storage and shelf space for kits and materials. I really need to find a better setup for my painting but my problem is that i'm so far from any outside access for ventilation. Right now I prime in the garage and the rest is done here on the bench. My room has been a work in progress but i'm really happy with how it's setup right now.

Terry [/URL[URL=http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/kingtiger11/media/Workbench/DSC01351_zpslsjvfinc.jpg.html]

  • Member since
    January 2014
  • From: Nampa, Idaho
Posted by jelliott523 on Sunday, February 8, 2015 8:55 AM

Nice workspace there Terry!  I'd love to have that much room to work in, and to have a sink in the work area would be great!  Thanks for sharing!

On the Bench:  Lots of unfinished projects!  Smile

  • Member since
    March 2009
  • From: Yorkville, IL
Posted by wolfhammer1 on Sunday, February 8, 2015 3:12 PM

Wonderful workshop.  I'm honestly jealous.  As far a as paint booth goes, you have 2 options.  One you could run a long duct to the outside, that just means a bigger and more powerful fan to push the air out.  Another option is to get a fan pulling through an activated carbon filter or the like and allow it to vent into the basement but with purified air.  Either way would work and of course have different costs and benefits.  I personally use the activated carbon filter, but I got lucky and found an old chemical hood from a lab as a self contained unit and it cost next to nothing.  Good luck developing you paint area and awesome shop.

John

  • Member since
    January 2013
Posted by jibber on Sunday, February 8, 2015 3:31 PM

John, Jelliott thanks, for years i've tried to figure out whats best and i'm still undecided. I know its necessary but I just don't want to throw a lot of money at it. I've looked at the carbon filter systems and that feels like a good way to go. We're lucky enough to have a large basement but that also means this room, even though its on an outer wall is a long way from venting through a window.

One thing I really like about my workspace is that almost everything is within arms length and I have tons of lights. Its so much easier when you're working and need something, that you can just reach over and grab it without having to get up and look around. That seems like a lot of wasted time.

Terry  

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Sunday, February 8, 2015 3:36 PM

I would dream of a model space like that. Nice set up Terry.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    January 2013
Posted by jibber on Sunday, February 8, 2015 3:42 PM

Bish thanks, there wasn't a whole lot of thought put into the room, it just sort of took on a life of its own over the years.

  • Member since
    May 2013
  • From: From the Mit, but live in Mason, O high ho
Posted by hogfanfs on Sunday, February 8, 2015 7:34 PM
Terry, The workspace looks great. Very functional. I like the peg board. Gives me an idea of how to further organize my area.

 Bruce

 

 On the bench:  1/48 Eduard MiG-21MF

                        1/35 Takom Merkava Mk.I

 

  • Member since
    June 2010
  • From: Berwyn!
Posted by Beans on Monday, February 9, 2015 1:12 PM

Damn, now I want a sink.

You have a sweet setup jibber.

  • Member since
    November 2010
  • From: Florida-West Central
Posted by Eagle90 on Monday, February 9, 2015 1:33 PM

jibber's got a sink!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Please don't tell us you have a mini frig AND a toilet too!  Wink

Eagle90

 

  • Member since
    February 2015
  • From: Canada
Posted by Belugawrx on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 12:21 AM

I looked all over for a topic like this and couldn't find a thing,...

So I started another one ,.... why don't we forget that new one and continue this one

Yes it has a mini fridge Left of bench.

Sorry guys ....disregard the other post

Cheers

 Bruce Coy

  • Member since
    March 2009
  • From: Yorkville, IL
Posted by wolfhammer1 on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:50 PM

All, my humble work space.  Not as neat and tidy as I might like, but it gets the job done.

Spray booth.  I got lucky on this one.

  Sorry about the focus, but you get the idea.

  • Member since
    July 2014
Posted by modelcrazy on Saturday, September 12, 2015 10:55 PM

 

I finally got some shelving up for my builds and able to get everything straighten up for a few shots.
This is my new work space. It will look like this tonight, but tomorrow it will once again be cluttered.

The bottom picture on the wall is of an HE-111 that flew in to an airport I was near in Broomfield CO many years ago. The next one up is of the cockpit of the same HE-111. The top picture is of the USS Constitution taken Dec 1984.
That's Avatar on the screen.
Steve

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

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  • Member since
    September 2015
  • From: The Redwood Empire
Posted by Aaronw on Sunday, September 13, 2015 1:35 PM

As a teenager I was spoiled, my parents had a work bench built for me under the basement stairs when they had some other work done on the house. Unfortunately I have no photos of that.

For several years after I started building again as an adult, I just used a board that could sit in my lap, go on a folding TV table or on any available table / counter top as available. Tools and paint lived in a larger tool box.

I still use the board I used as a cutting board.

 

 

We moved from an apartment into a house and I got a small laundry room off the kitchen as a dedicated model room.

 

 

Next move was a larger house and I got a space in a landing / hallway at the top of the stairs.

 

 

 

Our most recent move (and our last unless California falls into the sea) has provided me with an actual room of my own, and I've taken full advantage of it. A long work bench to provide work stations for different tasks, lots of lights a mini fridge, computer and TV. This was shortly after moving in, it has never been this clean since.

 

 

I don't know why it made my text into links Oops

  • Member since
    April 2015
  • From: Detroit, MURDER CITY
Posted by RudyOnWheels on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 2:51 PM

Some Awesome work areas! I love the lighting in a few of them! Just bought my wife an "ottlight" Craft/sewing light, and with a coupon, it was pretty cheap! Very bright. Here is mine, a disaster as usual... Second pic is my homemade Paint both with lighting and ventilation.... I originally built it for model CARS, but to get an idea of the size, the wing on the floor of the booth is for a 1:48 PBY Catalina.... Its pretty large. Still not plumbed out the window yet :(  Thanks!!!  Rudy

 

fox
  • Member since
    January 2007
  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 5:26 PM

Jibber - Did you ever consider just running the duct through the wall to the outside next to the spray booth like a dryer duct?  It's an easy job and easy to redo if necessary.  The shorter the duct, the less the back pressure on the fan.

Jim  Captain

 Main WIP: 

   On the Bench: Artesania Latina  (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II

I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.

  • Member since
    March 2009
  • From: brisbane australia
Posted by surfsup on Friday, October 9, 2015 11:02 PM

OK here is my workbench Area.....Cheers mark

If i was your wife, i'd poison your tea! If Iwas your husband, I would drink it! WINSTON CHURCHILL

  • Member since
    December 2010
Posted by danburnsart on Monday, December 30, 2019 3:19 PM

Here is mine.  still getting it set up.  For modeling, painting and art making, and general purpose.  Closet is full of canvases, paintings, and kits.

 

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: Dayton, Ohio USA
Posted by minitanker on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 10:56 AM

My workbench.

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