You built a model WHERE?!?!

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....

Heh.. I still have that field desk, lol.. 

In the late eighties I was working seasonally as a Wildland firefighter for the U.S. Forest Sevice. Our summer duty station was a remote guard station in the Abajo Mtns. in S.E. Utah. 40 miles from the nearest civilization. One season I packed up an Accurate Miniatures 1/48 P-51A Mustang and a few scant building materials to while away the time there. I worked on the kitchen table under propane lamps in the evenings.It was a rough build and I never completed it. Yet, I still have that uncompleted Mustang in my stash and pull it out every once in awhile and contemplate repairing the mistakes and finishing it.

                                                                                                                Joe

Probably the strangest place (location)  I built up a model was while assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Dacca, Bangladesh, '72-'73. Other than work - communications - and the parties at the Marine House on Friday night there was absolutely nothing to do and I became extremely bored. In the States I'd built models for years and decided to have a cousin send me one, including paint, glue, etc. (Fire had barely been invented in Bangladesh much less a hobby shop).The package took 3-4 months to arrive - anything over 2 lbs was shipped surface - and the strain of waiting was unbearable. It finally arrived, a 1/72nd Phantom II, and I immediately spread out newspapers on the living room floor and began construction. My servant, a native Bengali, had never seen anything quite like the kit and was mesmerized. I recall him squatting on the floor next to me as I put the plane together continually asking questions. I had no airbrush and had to make do with the two brushes my cousin sent me. I took my time - 4-5 weeks - just to have something to do other than drinking at the Marine House. It kept me from losing my sanity. While the finished product wasn't in the same class as models I'd done in the States, it served its purpose and actually, considering what little I had to work with, didn't come out that badly.