I,m trying to locate info and design of an organized work bench. Hoping some one has a great idea.
Workbenches are very rarely organized and are never designed that way. They get that way on occasions after someone decides they are tired of their being disorganized and makes the effort to make them organized. Mine has been that way irregularly.
Good luck!
Assume you mean for model building as opposed to wood working.
My best was a rolltop desk. It was the most organized model work bench I ever had - but that’s not saying much!
My current operation spawls over an old 3x5 ft dining room table, a 5 drawer rolling tool cart (with wheels removed) and a 2x4 ft temporary table (temporary in the sense that the legs can be folded up). I also have several bookshelves in the room holding train stuff. (More stuff is elsewhere in the basement.)
I still have the rolltop, but it’s being used as my bill paying / office supplies desk.
Another good choice is an old government metal desk - I have one of these down in the workshop.
I have also used a variety of less suitable things over the years including a tv tray.
I have to confess though that no matter what size I have the actual work area always seems to shrink down to an area about the size of that tv tray.
Good luck
Paul
There was a post a month or so back showing many pictures of guys work areas. Try the search function and you may get lucky and get many ideas from seeing others work areas.
Workbench configurations can be all over the place due to the location, intended use, dual purpose, individual preferences as to the working height and chair/ stool. Overall comfort, the amount of storage of items used regularly, the amount of space available to dedicate to the working area. This goes on and on. You first need to know what configuration of the work area is going to suit your needs, Is it in a living space where it can be cleared or tidied easily. If in a garage, mancave, basement or other train dedicated space a larger workbench can stay cluttered w/ various ongoing projects and only cleared from time to time. Once you dive into the modeling aspect I find myself, like so many others will end up w/ their bench much the same.
I have an extensive area at my disposal, used to be a shoe/ cobbler shop many years ago, some of the benches were too nice to reconfigure. The main workbench is 12 ft long had pegboard and parts drawers as well as 2 stepped shelves. The 36" high surface has built-in oak drawers that I reworked to full extension slides. I eventually found that the 2 draws extended and a piece of plywood made the best work height from sitting in an office chair. This gives a comfortable work surface but still allows me to reach the bench beyond (bins of parts, trays w/ glues, paints etc. The drawer just to my right has most tools needed regularly. Another 1/2" ply (pullout cutting board style) just over this,
My bench evolved for my use and preferences, I couldn’t imagine anyone trying to give me a plan in the beginning to have it what it is today.
I also have lab tables/ stools in the same space that i use for construction of much larger projects and will usually keep these cleared off when not in use. Of coarse the other walls look like a hobby shop w/ all the train boxes, spraybooth, compact compressor and rest of equipment.
One day, probably in the sooner than I would like, i will have to move to downsize. Have no clu
When I built my new Layout area with a House on top - I built a fairly large Shop off the end of the Garage - thinking that I could finally have a place to work on Modeling Projects.
The bench was 28 feet wide and in less than 3 years it was down to a 2ft square area to work on stuff (not always Model RR stuff)!
I then got the idea I could use part of my Office area which is off the end of the Basement Layout Room (which is under the Shop Upstairs - which is full).
I built another Bench to devote strictly to Modeling - It was 14 ft wide.
I am now down to a 2ft square area to work in!?
WHY? 
I have no place left to go! 
BOB H - Clarion, PA
I have two workbenches, so to speak. One, in my garage where I do my paintwork and paint stripping, as well as soldering; the other on an Xacto large cutting board in my home office on a table where I can get daylight thru the window and have a magnifying lamp when needed. I find that tasks such as measuring and cutting styrene, bending wire for railings, decaling require very close work and the normal desk height afforded by sitting at the table is easier than working on such tasks in the garage workspace. Now, as to organization- I have most of my modeling materials, all paints and supplies in my garage workspace, organized in cabinets and those plastic three-drawer file boxes you but in the storage aisle at Walmart. I have round metal office desk pencil cups to hold tweezers, Xacto knives, gents razor saws, etc. I keep all adhesives in one container, where the tubes stay upright. I periodically go thru both areas to tone them up, but when you are in the middle of a bench job, it is natural to spread things about you. If you work in a robotic manner, placing and replacing tools and such as you work, you seem to waste time (yeah, sort of a silly concept when speaking of a hobby) re-organizing yourself constantly. That, in itself, takes away from my pleasure in working “on the bench”. On the other hand, a permanently messy workspace would drive me nuts! Cedarwoodron
Isn’t “Organized Workbench” sort of like “Military Intellegence”? Don’t Happen.
Sorry son, (but they are your words)
Richard
My bench was made from a door blank. I also build and fly R/C airplanes and need a fairly large space for building them, The bench is about 32 inches deep by what ever standard door lengths are. I try to keep this area fairly clear of clutter. My bench sets atop a kitchen stove with small counters on either side. The area I use for my shop was a very small kitchen back in the late 1960s when my home was being remodeled. To the rear, when facing my bench are 6 kitchen cabinets I use for storage and there is a large tool caddie setting between the cabinets. It’s a simple matter to grab tools, use them and lay them on the bench. Every other day; or, so, I take the time to put tools and other stuff back where they belong.
I think many people who have very large areas to work on, with plenty of tool and other storage space, could be very organized; but, fail to do the one thing that would make being organized happen! They don’t take the time to put stuff back where it belongs. So, having an organized workbench has less to do with how the area is arranged and more to do with taking the time to organize.