How Cluttered Is Your Workbench?

[batmancustoms]

Mine still looks lke crap brothers.

[chrisonord]

my work bench is on the landing, opposite my bedroom,and so is my tools and stuff cabinet, and a display cabinet for some of my builds. The bech could easily have a 1/72nd scale TU-22 on there with loads of room to spare. But....there is that many bits of stuff and tools and general rubbish, on it most of the time I could just about build a 1/700th scale rowing boat
I also have ther habbit of starting another build whilst waiting for the previous one to dry after some of the painting.
So it can get cluttered with prospective whiff add on bits also. I do tidy it up every now and again, but it does not stay like that for long

Chris.

[BlackOps]

I didn't get mine cleaned off this weekend as planned but I did clean off just enough space to do some airbrushing on my Israeli Super Sabre

I have way to many in-progress builds cluttering up the place, every time I sit down to finish one I start another instead  

Trying to work some more hobby time into the schedule, I'm pretty sure I've been saying that since I first joined the group several years ago but hey, ya gotta have something to strive for  

[kitnut617]

Right now I don't have a workbench, the plan was to have my own room when we moved to our new house but it's still filled with moving boxes and other stuff until I get the other things that need doing around the house done first (keeps peace and harmony with SWMBO [supposedly   ])

Back at the old house I had one of the bedrooms as my hobby room, the bench got quite cluttered as I jumped from one project to another:

[PanzerWulff]

Here's My desk not verry cluttered with just a !/35 Tamiya Stuart and a 1/700 Space Battleship Yamato on the deck Great sunlight for painting too

"Panzer"

[B777LR]

Here's My desk not verry cluttered with just a 1/35 Tamiya Stuart
"Panzer"

Cute

[B777LR]

Not my workbench, but what is under construction at the moment:



SH-60 (Italeri putty monster)

Fokker Dr.1 (WWII paint scheme)

Halftrack something with 50 mm gun

Revell Mini

[Weaver]

Before (not too terrible, actually):





After:





That round white thing at the far end of the bench is a paintbrush stand that you can buy in The Works for a couple of quid: really good for keeeping things tidy but to hand. I may get another one just to hold the old felt-tip pens with blu-tack blobs on them which I use for handling/painting small parts (you can see a couple in the black lamp base in the forground).

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

...Question:

so what can your average, modelholic and father do when he's got bot the 'little darlings' at home, there's earthquakes, it's cold and raining outside and they still have five days before they go back to school ??

Answer:
You tidy your workbench and then take photos of it !!









Amongst the 'already started' pile you'll make-out a couple of P-47's, an RF-4, a StuG, a T-34 and if you look VERY carefully, an old Airfix SMB2 & F-80 and a Fujimi F-4B.  Can't wait to get back at it !! - Yes that is a pile of unstarted P-47's to the right.... Guess what I'll be churning-out in the Spring & Summer  :stirpot:

AFN

Ian

[VickersVandal]

I have no modelling bench, so this is what it looks like when I'm working at the dinner table:


Then, everything has to be completely packed away so the 3 year old Weapon Of Mass Destruction doesn't get at it.


All paints, glues and tools go in my set of drawers while larger tools (like the dremel) and spray cans go in one of those black boxes and model boxes of anything under construction go in the other. Setting up and packing up is a pain (I often need to be fully packed away within 5 minutes when my wife rings the dinner gong) but I've got it down to a pretty fine art.

[Dizzyfugu]

Very? 


(Messy) Work station by dizzyfugu, on Flickr

[PR19_Kit]

Thomas, I'm pleased to see that your workbench looks JUST as cluttered as mine! 

[NARSES2]

I see you are building the Felixstowe Mr Vandal   I've one in the stash but have shied away from it up to now

[Steel Penguin]

mine is back here
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,22457.msg439299.html#msg439299
its not that much better  / worse now  4 years later 

[ChernayaAkula]

A tidy workbench? Surely that's in violation of a few laws or regulations!