I think you speak for all of us there. 
Thats a heck of an idea. I’ll have to try that until I can get my more permanent space. Thanks!
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From sometime after Thanksgiving until it’s time to start mowing the lawn in spring or getting the boat ready for summer, which is when I usually get to work on the layout, it’s half of the big kitchen table. The wife love’s it. There’s much better light, and room, then down in the basement.
Besides, she uses the table I used to use for her jigsaw puzzles.
The project right now is going to be a brewery that is a combination of 2 different kits.
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Alan, nice job so far on the project. What are the 2 kits?
Regards, Chris
Thanks Tophias,
The left side is Hamm River models R.K. feed and seed and the right side is the back half of the Campbell’s Hamilton dingies.
Right now I’m waiting for a bunch of beer barrels to come in.
Alan
Alan, please post a pic of the finished project when it’s done.
Regards, Chris
Okay, I will.
Nice work, alan76! The checker players and checker board are the perfect touch.
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Thanks. I still have to come up with a name and signs for the brewery but in the meantime I’ll put it on the layout.
I asked my kids to come up with a name.
My workbench is a mid-century fold down desk I bought at a local antique store. It is amazing how few tools are actually needed for model building. In my old house I had a workshop that was twice as big as my hobby room is now. I have around 5% of the tools I had before, but it is still everything I need.
The desk is located in the same room as my small layout. I wish I had a view of the Gulf, but all I can see from this side of the building is the parking lot and grocery store across the street.
I have to move to the balcony for my relaxation.
I’m kind of in the same boat, although with me it isn’t just modeling tools. I had an entire backyard work shed filled with building and machine tools. Then my father died and I got his tools. I kept them all thinking one day I would use them.
I’m now at the point I know I will never need almost any of them. Over the next year I’m going to be giving them to some second-hand building supply companies.
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I keep “that basic 5%” in a drawer at the bench where I do most of my modelbuilding. The soldering station is close at hand there too.
But the other 95% definitely gets used as is evident by how quickly many of them wind up in that same workspace ,sometimes overcrowding it, or how frequently I have to scoot over to where the others are like the drill press or dremel station, other machines, etc.
I do use 'em all! Dan
That’s not unlike my setup–I have a “Model Railroad First Aid Box” (an old BNSF first aid kit) full of tools to solve general problems on the railroad: a track pinning hammer, screwdrivers, pliers, and the like.
A fresh start on a ‘new’ (2009 vintage) Cornerstone kit! I love the smell of styrene in the morning!
Everett Kit on Bench First by Edmund, on Flickr
Everett Kit on Bench by Edmund, on Flickr
Lots of work ahead…
Cheers, Ed
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Glad I’m not the only one with a messy bench. Amazing what I’ve been able to find when I clean it.
I’ll never forget my mom telling my dad to clean his office because I copied his same approach: making large piles for things/