Tool Box

[chiglet]

When I started "Serious " Modelling [in the mid '60s] my tool box was:-
A knife/sharp blade definitely NOT a scalpel. Sandpaper [wet n dry not invented]. Plastic wood filler. Balsa wood, dope, talc plastic and balsa cement.....and Imagination. I was in the RAF at the time and I built a Vanguard AEW [1963] After an overseas posting, a Lightning F6 from the Airfix F1a [Balsawood tank and le's Firefly mk2 from a mk5. My mate did a Macchi MC200 from a MC202 Needless to say the mainstream manufacturers spoiled our pitch  but that's life.
I now have a toolbox filled with scalpels, sanding sticks, various razor saws, umpteen fillers, glues etc.
What once fitted into an Airfix Lancaster box now occupies TWO cantilever boxes...plus paint brushes and paint....
How's about you?

[kerick]

I've started on mechanics tool boxes and it filled up quickly

[Captain Canada]

I have stuff scattered everywhere but my basic kit is a knife  (#11 ) a pin vise, 2 paint brushes and a tube of Testors and a bottle of Tamiya glue.

[Rheged]

As our esteemed colleague states at the start of this thread  IMAGINATION  is the best thing to have in our armoury of tools and techniques!

[zenrat]

I'd put patience before imagination.  Or maybe they are equally important.

At the beginning tube glue and enamel paint meant wonky parts and fingerprints due to "is it set/dry yet?"
These days superglue, 5 minute epoxy and acrylic paints help a bit but I could still do with more patience.

Toolkit as a kid?  Stanley knife (box cutter) and some brushes.  Sandpaper was for wood...

[NARSES2]

My first toolkit was probably the same as yours and before that as a child in the late 50's/early 60's it was just glue. After you got Airfix's latest home on a Saturday morning you pulled the bits off the sprue, glued it, flew it and buried it 

Not sure when I last used dope and talcum powder

Now I've loads of tools and yet use about 10% of them at most 

[Go4fun]

Tool box? I have a rolling table with a folding wing and things like my knive set in box, files set in case, sanding boards and other tools fit in the drawer. Spray paint I keep in a milk crate in the hall closet and brush paints are in egg cartons with the kits in a stand-alone drawer unit. I do have two Dremel type tool sets as they were gifts.

[Captain Canada]

PS-do you have any of those old models still ? The Vanguard AEW would be neat to see !

[chiglet]

The Vanguard, Gnat Ga1, and all the "normal" models were donated to the local orphanage when I was posted to Borneo in 1964.
Some whiffs...USCG Rotodyne, PR Gnat [Indian AF], EE Lightning F6a with wingtip sidewinders, [from an idea by a Flight Sergeant at Binbrook] I drifted away from the hobby, but I've returned to the fold after a 25 year absence and have two whiffs from then. I'll post them soon.

[Nick]

My main toolbox is a cantilever type similar to this one
http://www.diy.com/nav/fix/tool-storage-workbenches/tool-boxes/JCB-65cm-Tool-Box-11247782

The clear boxes on the top slide out and I use one of these for my travelling tools of a scalpel, tweezers, glue, wet/dry paper, clothespegs and a lighter for melting sprue. The irony is that this is my main toolbox and the rest is full of paints and bits I don't ever use!
There's actually more stuff on the table than in the box.

[Captain Canada]

Seems that way to me as well. A box that's full of stuff you don't use and the stuff you do use scattered all over the table !

[rickshaw]

The biggest consumer of room in my tool "box" (now several workshop draws and boxes) is paint.  Little tins, little bottles, little tubes.  I used most of them, even if only at a dab at a time over long periods.

[zenrat]

Which reminds me, it's probably time I did a paint audit and threw away all the dried up ones and bought replacements if deemed necessary.
Do others have many blacks of different levels of gloss and different consistency (from washes to treacle) for different uses or is it only me?

I have one of those plastic racks with the many sized and shaped holes screwed to the wall at the back of the bench.  Once in a blue moon I put all the tools away but they pretty soon end up scattered all over the bench.
My wood working tools on the other hand are always cleaned sharpened and put away at the end of a days work.
But then I rarely pop out and do 10 minutes quick carpentry like I do modelling.

[NARSES2]

Little tins, little bottles, little tubes.  I used most of them, even if only at a dab at a time over long periods.

Yup I've loads and loads of them in the 3 tier plastic tray things you can get in £store. Drawers are the right depth for all except Xtracrylic which have to be lain on their side. The similar but more expensive "cabinets" in WH Smiths will take the Xtracrylic bottles standing up

Still got lots of Humbrol Authentic military colours which are still in excellent condition after 30 years ??