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Great idea for styrene storage!

EJ

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" 1/700Hasegawa 45
" 1/700Dragon 44
" 1/700Trumpeter 43
" 1/540Revell vintage 62
" 1/350Trumpeter 42
Fair Winds and Following Seas

Gentlemen!
After half a year absence form the hobby I gladly announce service-readiness of my new workshop.
We'll the room isn't even high enough to stand upright, but what the heck... I'll be mostly sitting anyway.
It's great to be back!

Guido

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AKA "Tailor"
VMF'06 - German Gamblers
Veritable Modelling Friends 2006, Germany

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - H. IBSEN

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8zhb1sc4Pe3BRLqq3d-SQ

Guido At last your work room is operational !!!!! Now what magic pieces can we expect to see that is my question ? Good luck and it will be GOOD to see you posting more frequently !!
Dave Wooley

Hi Dave!
It's nice to hear from you.
Magic? I don't know, but I jumped right into a project you can follow up here!

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=45409

Hope you like it!

Cheers,
Guido

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AKA "Tailor"
VMF'06 - German Gamblers
Veritable Modelling Friends 2006, Germany

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - H. IBSEN

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8zhb1sc4Pe3BRLqq3d-SQ

Marinewerft gave it self a refit of the slipyard...





These lamps give very cold light. Together with a additional warmlight source i solved some photography issues at the same time.

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www.uschivdr.com

Nice setups guys. Molders, I notice your ships on display near your bench. How do you stop dust getting on them?

Hey, guys, I want to show the rediculousness of my work area compared to the professional setups you guys have. So, here's my humble working abode! It's a lot beter thanbeingin the barracks, that's for sure.

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Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance

Hm...in the moment not at all.
Once i should find a Solution for that. But until then i go over it with a airbrush and a brush from time to time...

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www.uschivdr.com

After relocating back home for a while at least, i had to setup a small desc somehow in order to continue working on models.
At the moment this desk is my little modeling heaven.

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http://katsflyby.blogspot.gr/

OK, you asked for it... I've been told that my spare room looks like a Hobby Shop exploded in it... To which I replied, "Thank you, very much!" I am divorced, no munchkins and I'm buying the place on contract... This used to be my bedroom and the shop was in the smaller (8'x10') room. After about six months, I decided I needed more room to play and less to sleep soooo... I guess the workshop is my personal expression of freedom as my Ex-wife never did warm up to my hobbies.

The pictures are sequential, counterclockwise around the room.

As you can tell, I build everything. If it's plastic or resin, I'm game... I've been on a 1/25 car, truck and big rig bender since a muscle disease robbed me of a good bit of my dexterity but, we are making progress against it and my Dex is starting to return, hence my return to shipbuilding albeit in a larger scale than the 1/350 and 1/700 of my past.



Believe it or not, I know where everything is in this mess...




-My $30.00 spraybooth. Free paneling, squirrelcage blower, some bits and pieces from the Hardware store and Viola! It is 20" deep, 19" tall and 43" wide, vented to the outside. One would think that would be large enough...right??? WRONG! See the black overspray on the wall? Complements of the 52some-odd inch long 1/72 Gato class... I guess I shoulda painted it on the deck... Ohh, well.

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Does anyone know
Where the love of God goes,
When the waves
Turn the minutes to hours?

-G. Lightfoot

Chris that is way to organized. What are you some kind of neatness freak?

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Timothy Dike
Owner & Administrator
ModelWarships.com

"Closet" neatness freak actually ... That's where the kit stash is... If it makes you feel any better (or possibly worse), I actually cleaned it up a bit just a few days ago... Not bad for having four active projects... Two 1/25 359 Peterbilts, a 1/25 Kenworth T-900 Australian Rig and the scratchbuilt 1/192 M-7 USS Arkansas which I started yesterday.

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Does anyone know
Where the love of God goes,
When the waves
Turn the minutes to hours?

-G. Lightfoot

OK here is my coop. I am a neat freak for sure, but did not clean up. I need to stay organized.

Tony

Well here are a few pics of the Dungeon. The Wife let me have the Basement Family room for my Shop Area. Not to organized but like a Model it is never really finished.

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Jesus Christ and General Jackson, this is the hottest potato they've handed me yet!
(Bull Halsey)

1/48 Benhan Class DD
1/48 ATF
1/48 DE
1/48 Gearing class DD
1/48 AM Minesweeper (Dry Docked)
1/24 AM Minesweeper (In for Refit)

Hi Sweeper Skipper I can only dream of that kind of space for a workshop .
Dave Wooley

Dave, its not the size of the workshop, its what gets done in it,

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Simple but effective.

Dave, My last work shop was a shed, With more cold months than warm I needed something that was a bit more pleasent to work in. The Wife took pitty on me, The work shop before that was a walk in Closet, 8 feet long and 3 feet wide. A little cramped but warm

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Jesus Christ and General Jackson, this is the hottest potato they've handed me yet!
(Bull Halsey)

1/48 Benhan Class DD
1/48 ATF
1/48 DE
1/48 Gearing class DD
1/48 AM Minesweeper (Dry Docked)
1/24 AM Minesweeper (In for Refit)

Hi Dave

Hello from Malta. What a lovely workshop you have ben rewarded by the wife! I see you are equipped with a lather. Does it serve you well with your 1 in 48th scale model accessories. What is the make and model? I am thinking of investing in a lathe but not asure about the mae size and model. Is it worth for instance in investing in a 4-jaw chuck? Your kind advise would be appreciated.

Keep modelling going and all the best of luck.

Best regards
Noel Paris
Malta

Greeting's Noel

My Lathe is a Grizzly 9X19 G4000.
I have had it for a few years now and purchased it having no machinest training. When I first bought it I assumed I would need a four Jaw chuck right away, So far I have not needed it for the things I make. I have a thread here in the Scale RC section on a ship I have been rebuilding here and there since the purchase of this lathe.
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=45000

If you have the means to get one I highly recommend it, You wont be sorry.
My next venture will be a milling Machine.

Regards.
Trev.

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Jesus Christ and General Jackson, this is the hottest potato they've handed me yet!
(Bull Halsey)

1/48 Benhan Class DD
1/48 ATF
1/48 DE
1/48 Gearing class DD
1/48 AM Minesweeper (Dry Docked)
1/24 AM Minesweeper (In for Refit)

This is my little slice of heaven. Across from my bench is a tv I can watch when I work.