A space for off-topic chat, hobby speculation, rumors, and general conversation beyond modeling tips and builds.
Workbench Talk is for discussions that don’t fit into the specific modeling categories. It’s where members can chat about industry news, upcoming releases, share rumors, or just connect on off-topic subjects.
Other categories focus on specific modeling topics like builds, techniques, or scale-specific questions. Workbench Talk is for broader discussions, speculation, and general community chat.
Topics should include hobby-related speculation, news, upcoming product rumors, general chat, or off-topic discussions that don’t belong in focused modeling categories.
This category is needed to give members a place to engage in broader or off-topic conversations without cluttering the main modeling categories. It serves as a social hub for the community.
I only found this topic because MP104 explicitly mentioned it existed, and I had to find it using the Search feature. Strange that with all the different categories I read, this never came up anywhere.
Which magazine was it that had the ‘Bull Session’ general discussion? Guess that title’s no longer usable, even with time-honored precedent…
I do think it’s good to have a lightning rod of sorts for those members with strong opinions to utilize – with accordingly somewhat loosened moderation standards for the topics. Presumably those who specialize in the art of the excessively-ready ad hominem can be trusted to rein that tendency in and keep it on the discussion, wherever that goes.
‘Workbench Talk’ is like a top-level domain for all the off-specified-topic threads, not just the fantasy or writing-prompt or post-a-lot-to-get-egoboo-and-free-merch crowd.
All you have to do is post new 1:1 railroading topics of interest inside ‘Workbench Talk’ (instead of, say, Trains Magazine or ‘General’, and you should get the adult benefits that Nick and mp104 seem to think the category provides.
I honestly don’t know why it’s not showing up at top level, but I can see why it might be kept as a sort of dark-web secret – you have to know how to say the secret woid to get into the speakeasy.