Where do you build?

[tonioseven]

Originally posted by daggerlee


Bingo. A lot of kits may go OOP for quite a long time, or maybe go out of print because licensing contracts have run out, etc. so it's best to snap them up while you can.

Daggerlee speaks the truth!!! I just stocked up on a bunch of Musclecars because they were $5 and $6 apiece I bought a total of 13 different kits because the regular prices were like $11.99 and $12.99. Get them while you can because there's no guarantee you'll see it again anytime soon! Better safe than sorry!!:bandit:

[bah humbug]

Originally posted by hirofkd
You heard of a landslide, right? But what about modelslide?
My workbench was...buried.

Thats funny.

After you finish current model,

Walks to pile of kits, " 1,2,3 ! " (dives into pile randomely picking the next kit. )

I've got it !

You should stack them.

[freakray]

I thought I would finally join in and let you see where I torture my kits
We only have a small apartment, so I took over a corner of the lounge, my spray booth is on the left, I have ducting that leads out the window for when I spray, my work table is pretty much a mess right now, but I have been busy with other things and not too worried about it.


Ray

[Purpura Delujo]

I see a GTO there Antonio

You all don't want to see mine, down the end of my bed and it has open chemicals on it all the time. Explains why i'm lacking in brain cells I'll make a new one out of some wood dad has in the garage in the holidays.

[LauBak]

This is my working place, and it became the simple studio now.

[Matthew Usher]

Originally posted by Matthew Usher


I'll try to remember to shoot a couple pictures of the booth.

It's a booth offered by Micro-Mark. I bought it a little more than a year ago, and it's been a good investment. Painting in the house is just too dangerous without one, and here in Wisconsin, I HAVE to paint inside most of the year!

The booth is a "downdraft" model -- the fumes are drawn through a filter in the floor of the booth. They exit the booth through a flexible aluminum tube (the kind used for clothes dryers). I vent the booth through a window -- I built a plywood "plug" that fits in the opened window, and the vent runs through that. I can set it up or tear it down in a couple of minutes, and the plug keeps the fumes (or the cold outside air) from coming back into the room.

I'm probably not explaining things very well. I'll shoot some pictures in the next couple of days to show you what I'm talking about.

Matt

Maybe this will help my explanation:





That's blue masking tape around the edge of the plug. (It's winter in Wisconsin, and every little bit helps). I may add some self-adhesive weather strip at some point.

The booth is lit with a self-contained fluorescent light I picked up at a home improvement store. You can see it along the top panel of the booth, which is clear plexiglass, although it's difficult to tell from this angle.

And I've been building Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1, which explains all the orange paint!

Matt

[Scott 02]

Great paint booth. Im working on making one myself. I like your idea with the ventalation fan at the top. I was planning on something like that. I was wanting to see a picture of one with the fan and there it is.

[clatescivicr]

I've really only seriously gotten back into Modeling within the past few months and I own already 10 kits. It should be 9 but I messed up the windshields on one so I had to buy the kit over again... And I have none completely built but 2 are very close lol. Yes I'm an impulse buyer but I have stopped since I want the money for my 1:1 car lol.

I will have a pic in 2 weeks when I get back to college after break when I have my supplies up here. You guys are gonna love my whole "work area"

[RyanGiorgio]

Here is mine. Super Un-organized, but i love it. I wish I had a desk like my mom. She makes her own 3D pictures and sells them.









My mom's desk.



Her "models"

[Subway]

My work room~

[fullbloodchop01]

A SPARCO SEAT!!! how original

[Modelcargarage]

you guys are sooooooo lucky i usually do my models on my bed or on my bedroom floor and i spray my models in a old shop next to our house my floor is full with stains and its a brand new carpet just put in about one month ago my mom was so pissed it was funny as hell

[SuPeRcAr_MaN]

Do most of you people have a paint booth? I do my painting in my dusty garage and I always get a few specs of dust in the paint...

[endlesskev86]

Subway: More pics of your room and SPARCO RACING SEATS TOO!!!!
Laubak: You sure made use out of your room... especially in HK where the space is limited!... my cousin had to spray in the street! so funny!

[Modelcargarage]

i always get dust on my models but i mean what can you do about it ? there are ways but i mean its impossible unless your garage is dust free