Post Pics of Your Workbenches!

[MEGADETH9mm]

After 35 years of model building, I finally took an hour last night to build myself a proper spray booth.

It's nothing fancy: just some card board, an old fan and a couple of layers of furnace filters from Home Depot. It doesn't vent outside, so it doesn't address fumes (haven't hurt me yet...) but it seems to do a good job with paint particles and provides a relatively dust free area for painting.

I put two filters in place: a cheap fiber filter in front with a higher priced dust filter behind it. Top flips down for storage and I'll plan on keeping it covered for dust protection which can be an issue with wood sanding sometimes being done close by.

Total cost was about $5.00 (plus the cost of the new kitchen sink that came in the box).

That is one cool paint booth reigels, i will use a similar design when i have my workshop and finally get back to airbrushing.
Thanks for sharing

Happy modeling

John

so the furnace filter picks up all the paint particles? nice.

[MEGADETH9mm]

It's fun to see where other people spend their time building models. Here's my work area (the room is actually larger than the photo suggests. I do need a larger table though.)

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And here's why I don't have too much extra space in my hobby room...display case #1:

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And display case #2:

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Together they're holding about 250 finished 1/700 models.

Yohan Fernando

those display cases are remarkable.

[DougKn]

Great thread. It almost motivates me to get down and fix up my bench so I can get some ships out. You guys have some of the nicest work areas I've seen - I'm envious. Here are two of my work areas, another one is "projected" (when I clear all the stuff off it.)

This is my workbench, when you remove the top coating. Honey-do's seem to collect

This is my tool room. I confess, I removed the tarp and empty boxes before photo ;-) Someday, that mill will be put back together again!!

[Fast and Feared]

Been a while since a thread update, so I will add mine to the gallery.






Mine is L shaped, well lighted. I was lucky this workshop was just screaming at me when we bought the house last year. It isn't bad I get this room and a sometimes use of a bathroom... no just kidding in reality it is pretty sweet. Pretty awesome place to chill, all I need is one of these(I am willing to take Donations):

Mmm Frosty Coolies

Questions Thoughts and comments welcome


V/r
-Ben

[Secondo]

It's a bit out of focus, but still recognisable, my favourite corner of the workbench
Standing high and dry over a spraycan cap as his podium, the DVCE is making one of his verbose speeches while his public, the Pink Panther and E.T., stand by admiring

[MM2CVS9]

Being from Michigan = Idiot Moose discussing with Bobble Head Moose, the progress on my 1/700 USS ESSEX - 1942 configuration.

[karl]

My small corner of the basement

[Nick_Karatzides]

Some pictures of my hobby room. Click on the first image to enlarge hi-res 180 degrees picture

[MM2CVS9]

Boy, is that bench spiffy. Did you straited up for the photo or is it usually that neat. Mine's not!

[eibwarrior]

Not exactly as neat and orderly as some others, but it's home sweet home. A converted Dining Room in my house. The wife doesn't miss it.

As you can probably tell, I'm a multi-medium ship builder. Plastic, resin and card.

[gtb -red]

glad to see you over here eibwarrior. nice room with the fixens.

[eibwarrior]

Thanks GTB. I've always been a "lurker" here. Love this forum and site.

My bench needs a bit of spiffing up though. It never recovered after ARIZONA. I need to do some spring cleaning in the fall.

[Sean Hert]

What scale is that Arizona?

[reigels]

Not exactly as neat and orderly as some others, but it's home sweet home. A converted Dining Room in my house. The wife doesn't miss it.

As you can probably tell, I'm a multi-medium ship builder. Plastic, resin and card.

Looks good - Drink a bit of coffee eh?

(and welcome to the board.)

[eibwarrior]

@Sean... That's a 1/100 scale ARIZONA. Built from paper, card and other materials. It's an increase in size from the 1/250 scale kit that it was designed.

@reigels... Ah, you spotted my gravity fed water filter. It does look like a stainless coffee urn though. It doesn't fit in the kitchen so it resides in my studio. That's ok though, I get thirsty while modeling.

[William J]

Hi eibwarrior

Nice set up. Greetings from Australia.

Bill Keough

[sgtryan13]

Here is my version of chaos. It looks like a mess, but I know where everything is when I reach for it. Every time I clean the desk in between, during, or after a project, I can never find what I need, and within a day or 2 of working on a project, it looks like this again. This is pretty much how it always looks, with the exception that on this rare occasion, there is not a bottle of Budweiser on the bench, since I took these pics before work today.

[eibwarrior]

Good little corner of the world to work. Very good. I wish I had a window.

This is pretty much how it always looks, with the exception that on this rare occasion, there is not a bottle of Budweiser on the bench, since I took these pics before work today.

Where's the mini-fridge?

[Jonathan Cox]

Some pictures of my hobby room. Click on the first image to enlarge hi-res 180 degrees picture

Nick, that is a perfect bench. When I get my corner of the basement built, that is the look I would like to emulate. Well done!

[ajkochev]

Before ship modeling, During ship modeling and my storage. I store my styrene in gallon ziplock bags in the lowest drawer.