I’ve been dog & house sitting for a friend and fellow model railroader for the Memorial Day weekend. While I live in an apartment and have only a limited number of my tools, he has a full workshop along with a paintbooth. I’ve been able to get around 30 cars weathered and a few repaints done. It really is amazing how much you can get done when you have access to proper tools and work area!
Rick
Not having the right tools can get pretty frustrating REAL fast.
On the other hand HAVING the right tools can get expensive real fast.
Its all a state of mind. Ive been in my workshop lots of time when it seems like nothing got done. And then other times when the wife yells ARE YOU COMING TO BED not realizing I have been down in the dungeon all day and missed lunch and dinner. Those are the times when everything falls together and loads of work gets done.
Pete
I know that scrunched feeling. I found it was time to be better organized. A LOT of parts thrown in boxes got sorted out into clear plastic sorters of anny type I could figger out. The parts can fling loose in the boxes and not fly around everywhere, and I can see the parts easily without losing them. Now something else I did, after using spray painting using canned propellants, I got dissed because the air got cold while painting, an effect of reducing air pressure and just gummming everything up, so I bought a trueblue air compressor for painting. Right now I am in a fix the equipment phase, I have lots of benchroom which I need, after equipment is fixt, guess what, its a mad painting session!!! But al my benchroom will dissappear for layout space, so after my big fixit time, my bench space will get reduced and its layout time again…
been there…whooooeee
I’m kind of a tool freak and agree you need the right tools to do a good job. I’m in the market for a good air compressor now for my Badger air brush. My 80 gallon shop compressor is just a little to big for it, lol.
It’s only “expensive” once and – taken care of – they last forever.
Amortization makes it all very affordable in the long run!
I would rather spend $100 to buy the tools to fix something myself than pay someone $100 to fix it for me. At least I have the tools and knowledge when I’m done instead of just a “paid in full” receipt.