Share your scale modeling workspace

Pretty much my whole life I've built at the dining room or kitchen table, even though I've always had a hobby bench in the garage or basement.
I keep most of my stuff in the garage, and just bring what I need to the table inside. I can pack the whole thing up in a few minutes if needed.

I just like it. Close to the kitchen, an outside view, tv, and a little company.

 
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Bob T said:
Pretty much my whole life I've built at the dining room or kitchen table, even though I've always had a hobby bench in the garage or basement.
I keep most of my stuff in the garage, and just bring what I need to the table inside. I can pack the whole thing up in a few minutes if needed.

I just like it. Close to the kitchen, an outside view, tv, and little company.

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Love your "assistant!"
 
Added a couple of under counter frosted drawers today, anything to make room on the bench!

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I'm even thinking that if left open, their strategic placement between me and the cutting mat might make good 'catchers' for a % of the AWOL parts flying off the sprue. :rolleyes:

Either that or I start wearing one of those baby bibs with a catch-all pocket!
 
BarleyBop said:
strategic placement between me and the cutting mat might make good 'catchers' for a % of the AWOL parts flying off the sprue. :rolleyes:
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That might help, but I see a fatal flaw in your setup (if it were me working there at least), that trash can is within 20 feet, small parts will deviate from their tweezer-assigned flight-path and go there!

(yeah, I still do not know what happened to my F-104 wing)
 
Edbert said:
fatal flaw
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That's no flaw, that's on purpose! I could do a longitudinal statistical analysis of the odds of a piece flying in there... and yes it has happened, and yes I do look in there.

Unfortunately, the odds of finding a piece is inversely proportional to the likelihood of you looking somewhere, so known landing sites get statistically annulled over time. At which point, they start catching parts again, precisely because you've stopped looking there for the aforementioned reason. :eek:

I think we may have unlocked the secret to sighting the Loch Ness monster and my car keys!
 
BarleyBop said:
Added a couple of under counter frosted drawers today, anything to make room on the bench!

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I'm even thinking that if left open, their strategic placement between me and the cutting mat might make good 'catchers' for a % of the AWOL parts flying off the sprue. :rolleyes:

Either that or I start wearing one of those baby bibs with a catch-all pocket!
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I made a little trough at the lip of my table. It has worked many times is saving my parts.

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You are very lucky to have such large houses and therefore large spaces and rooms. We don't in the UK have basements/cellars in our houses, they are normally only in the very large city houses of £2-3m.
 
BarleyBop said:
Added a couple of under counter frosted drawers today, anything to make room on the bench!

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I'm even thinking that if left open, their strategic placement between me and the cutting mat might make good 'catchers' for a % of the AWOL parts flying off the sprue. :rolleyes:

Either that or I start wearing one of those baby bibs with a catch-all pocket!
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Absolutely thinking about a bib, the older you get the further away from the table and closer to your eyes you need, anything dropped goes immediately to the floor.....
 
PatW said:
You are very lucky to have such large houses and therefore large spaces and rooms. We don't in the UK have basements/cellars in our houses, they are normally only in the very large city houses of £2-3m.
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It is true, I am working-class here in Texas, but my house is almost 4,000 sq/ft, my small truck is an F-150 Raptor (the big one is a Superduty) and I have an 800-acre ranch with actual cattle. I doubt the Raptor could fit down some roads in the UK, certainly could not park anywhere.



I do not manage the herd, someone pays me a "grass lease" to put theirs on my property.
 
PatW said:
You are very lucky to have such large houses and therefore large spaces and rooms. We don't in the UK have basements/cellars in our houses, they are normally only in the very large city houses of £2-3m.
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I'm with you, bought childhood home from parents....single story, 3 bedrooms and a bath built in 1954. My work space is the newspaper and cardboard protected dining room table with a rolling tool chest for my supplies.
 
PatW said:
Lucky...large houses
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By an odd coincidence, this house was actually built in 1876 by a British widow, who came to Canada with three children. She was very enterprising, building stables next door and supplying the lumberyards and businesses down the hill with horses and wagons! The house is perched on the edge of an escarpment, so we have a 'partial', 'wet basement', with bits of cliff and a low ceiling.
Ottawa, sitting at the confluence of three rivers, was a booming lumber town, and down the hill from here, by the river, was a rough and tumble assortment of saloons, rooming houses, lumberyards, and wild men come down the rivers from the northern stands of virgin pine forests.
She would have seen that whole industrial area burned to the ground along with the businesses and homes, not once but twice! Being on the edge of the rock escarpment saved the house from the flames.
The (retired federal court justice) father of a friend of mine years ago made this woodblock print... you can see the escarpment in the background. So it fittingly hangs in the 'parlour', a reminder of days gone by.

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