Show us your WELL ORGANIZED Workbench!

Looks like a neat work area.  What is in the "medicine chest" in the last pic?

Organized, schmorganized. Three work areas that are organized at different times but never together. Too many hobbies and interests. My office desk is where most small models and sub-assemblies are built. A comfy office chair and lots of light for old eyes. Airbrushing and messy stuff goes to the garage 1/1 area which is usually involved in a motorcycle project in this case a small speed record attempt machine or at least that's the theme. I don't know if it will ever reach completion but it does keep me entertained as does modeling. There's also an old photographic darkroom that has been converted into a model assembly area with a large table and good lighting and even a large wet sink. You can leave large B-52s and such laying around as long term projects, unlike my multi purpose office desk which is in constant change. Sorry about the mess!

Max

Really funny. Everytime I go by this post I ask myself "what organized workbench?" LOL! Ok, sometimes but not today. I've got this bad habit when building even in 1/1 in the garage, of leaving everything out until I'm done or bogged down. It's frightning as we speak. Maybe later when it cycles through the organized stage.

Maxie

HaHa.  Yes that things in monstrous isn't it?  In the old house it was much higher on the wall.  Yes I used to play rock and metal drums, hence the "thrax" in my handle. 

Well, if anything you'll always know what time it is!

You wouldn't by chance play the drums as that stool looks like a drum throne.

This WAS my hobby space.  I worked for years getting everything ready for action.

Just as it was completed, life interrupted me AGAIN, and we downsized from 2210 sq ft to 806.  Everything went away and I started again with a $10 table from craigslist.  

Of course I couldn't leave it alone, so I knocked the bark off with the sander, and went from 3'x2' to 4'x2'.  It is much better now.

So here is is in situ.  Ironically I feel that I have more focus now.  Perhaps less really is more.  For 2018 I will do my best to make the most of this space.  At least it is organized.  

Wolfman_63

Here is my hobby room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Christmas my Wife got me a new workstation and a new chair. Lots more surface area and very stable.

fox

Hunter, if your old bench is still in one piece, I'll rent a box truck and come over and take the whole thing. I love it.

Jim  

 

Thank you for the immense compliment. Sadly it was taken down while we were in the process of selling that home and moving in to our new home. 

Here's my little corner in the bedroom. 

All the drawers of the desk are FULL.  Paint jars and brushes are in the top left drawer, supplies like putty, scissors, superglue, sprue cutters, tape, and a bunch of other stuff is in the top right drawer.  All the other drawers are filled with just about everything you might need!  Stash is in the corner, and my homemade paint booth on the right.  I started out working at the dinning room table summer of 2016.  At that point I was dragging my airbrush/compressor outside to paint, lol.  Decided to move everything upstairs and build a booth once winter came. 

It's neat to see all your workspaces.

When I get a new jar I'll put a drop of color on the lid so at least I can find the color then look at the label. I has cut down on the hunting.

I have a tip for storing things on the bench or in your work area:  take-out containers.  I forget when all the Chinese places around here started using plastic containers, instead of aluminum, but when they did, I started saving them every time I got take-out.  The containers are great for storing things, because you can stack them, you can label them, and the lids are clear enough that you can see what's inside any given container.  I like the oblong ones the best, but there are round ones, too, about eight or nine inches across, and they work well, too.

I also used a take-out container to make my own wet palette.  I found a kitchen sponge that fit perfectly, and I can use brown packaging paper for the membrane.  Works just as well as the commercial products.

plasticjunkie

 

Mine is usually tidy'd up but not while working on a project. The wood shelves are wine crates that I added a middle pine shelf to store my glues, thinners, paints, etc. The middle small plastic drawer between the wine crates has my Humbrol tins, clothes pins, and assorted building junk.

The desk is a drawing desk from Ikea. The metal cabinet is also from Ikea and houses my paints, tools, and most thinguies needed for the hobby. The plastic bins are full of AM parts, decals, pigments, and more tools.

To the right is my 5 ft display case that I snagged from a shop going out of business. There are also two more tall Ikea glass display cases on the opposite side of my mancave.

Here is my hobby room.

Hunter, if your old bench is still in one piece, I'll rent a box truck and come over and take the whole thing. I love it.

Jim  

Here's waht mine looked like about 2 years ago. Now you can't see the tabletop LOL. I really need to do a field day.

Mine's organized, but it's organized clutter...

As far as storage is concerned, a couple of years ago, I picked up a Rubbermaid or Sterlite 3-drawer cabinet on casters, which I have stowed under the bench:

I store most of my paints in two of the drawers, and putties and some tools in the third.  I originally stored paints in the wooden toolbox you see in the one shot, and the rest were just on the bench.  But they got in the way there.  Also, I wanted to be able to take my paints with me, when we have a modelers' meetup, for example.  I thought about getting a large tacklebox, but I wound up getting the cabinet instead.  It's still portable enough for me to take along on the road; it fits on a seat in my truck.

I have lumber cut to add a hutch to the back of the bench.  It will consist of two shelves, and I'll be able to organize the bins of figure kits and other supplies, that are currently on the floor under the bench.  I just have to knock the parts together one of these Saturdays.

Here's what the bench looked like back in 2009, by the way:

Not much has changed, except that things are piling up, heh.  And some of the toy soldiers not finished back then, still aren't finished today.  But it's a hobby, not a job!

My workbenched has changed a little since these pictures have been taken.  I added another table just for my computer.  However, this is the most organized it's been.  

IMG_1231 by Christopher Ridle, on Flickr

IMG_1232 by Christopher Ridle, on Flickr

IMG_1233 by Christopher Ridle, on Flickr

IMG_1234 by Christopher Ridle, on Flickr

Sorry. The pictures are sideways because I have a "Dumb" camera.

Just a tilt of the head to the right.........

Tool's in portable drawers / trays.

Paint's

Scratch building supply's.

 You can "NEVER" have too many decal's...

And of course ... The workbench itself. It's on wheel's. And also double's as the "stash box".

There are Drawer's and cabinet's full of stuff.... but I thought I posted too many picture's already.

Fermis,

Nice set-up....don't you have shelving on the other three walls displaying your builds? You have a nice modeling room.

Patrick,

No need to hang your head in shame sir. Those photos are from when I first started...now half the grid lines on my cutting mat are gone from spilling thinner on it. I have paint stains on the bench...Use it like you stole it LOL. And thank you for your comment.

Great thread. Love to see how everyone else sets up shop.This is my workbench. It's mobile so I can get around . The tools and paints are stored in cabinets around the workshop.

Hunter -

Your bench is a perfectly neat and well organized work space.

My head is hung low and I'm doing the walk of shame.

Patrick 

Here's my hodge-podge of a "work bench". I have been looking at flea markets for stuff for a smaller set up so I can put a squat rack/bench in the "cave". That is actually a nice old table underneath the paint and glue spots.

A well organized work bench? No such thing... LOL!

When I finished off my basement, I did a "built in" work bench. Made a couple small shelves in the corners, build in rack for those little Testors paints, drille holes in the sides of said rack for holding brushes and tools. Drawers (in the shadow to the right, unseen)are from my old build desk (desk top went out to the garage for a butcher block). Needs have evolved a bit, since I built it almost 15 years ago, and there's a few things I'd do a little different, but it still works well. One thing I wouldn't change....having a large glass work surface!

tempestjohnny

Thanks on the shelves. Other then the dust and 55gal drum of Windex to clean them they are great.  Bought them from a store going out of business. One day I'll build a cabinet around them

LOL....I imagine it would be painful having to remove all of your builds, and then clean all those shelves. When you do have the time to build the cabinet I hope you post a completed photo.