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Work area (AKA Dry Dock LOL)

I usually purchase a ship model just before I finish a ship model so as to keep the momentum going. I have one unbuilt boxed kit on my shelf because I thought I needed a change from ship models. WRONG MOVE. I'll get to that shelf model some day. :)
Corsair... Clamp On!
 
MisterCA said:
I usually purchase a ship model just before I finish a ship model so as to keep the momentum going. I have one unbuilt boxed kit on my shelf because I thought I needed a change from ship models. WRONG MOVE. I'll get to that shelf model some day. :)
Corsair... Clamp On!
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MisterCA said:
I usually purchase a ship model just before I finish a ship model so as to keep the momentum going. I have one unbuilt boxed kit on my shelf because I thought I needed a change from ship models. WRONG MOVE. I'll get to that shelf model some day. :)
Corsair... Clamp On!
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I build most of my models on the kitchen table. That way I can interact with my wife and also watch TV.
 
OK.. so now I am officially JEALOUS!!!! ROTFROTFROTFROTF

I miss my shed I had for modeling. I put up a 20 x 20 Shed in my old home. Had it professionally wired and insulated. Had even ran a water pipe out to a garden faucet/sink for washing plastic before building kits.

Ahhhh... I so miss it. Had to down size when I moved. Someday I'll get my setup back when I finally can move to my own place.
 
Such an intriguing photo. A hint of old tech with labels like ‘gain’ and ‘camera’ with sewing thread and a box labelled ‘awl & all’ - a hint of bookbinding perhaps. Front and centre an Apple which may well be a Mac Air, perhaps hinting of travel.

And of course a row of clamps awaiting their next job.

I rediscovered my workbench top about 36 hours ago, makes me want to go and take a snap and see what the surrounding background shows.

J
More on my list than will happen in my lifetime, for sure. Not all are ship related - we call those ‘diversions’
 
The idea of model builders building ship models in nice spacious work areas surrounded by fancy tools is not always the case. The only power tool in my build space is a Dremel tool. That piece of glass i work on is 10 x 30 inches.

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Kurt Konrath said:
Start of nice looking center section, which kit?
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Modifying the USS Constitution center section.
Cutting out the lower deck beams makes it easier to work on the hold and orlap areas.
Creating single piece hold/orlap ceilings so there is no gap between decks.
Also making thicker diagonal bracing at correct angle to run through both areas.
 
Dave Stevens (Lumberyard) said:
The idea of model builders building ship models in nice spacious work areas surrounded by fancy tools is not always the case. The only power tool in my build space is a Dremel tool. That piece of glass i work on is 10 x 30 inches.

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Not sure where my Dremel is these days.
I seem to like doing my modeling work by hand. It feels like I have more control over the creative process.
Working by hand means that a modeler is investing a bit of themselves in the model they are creating. That comes through to observant viewers of the completed model.
 
Pat H said:
Ahh . . . for the luxurious space of a TV tray.
My work area. Fold up the laptop.
( I'm out of rum, so I have to put up with T&T.)

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This sounds like a Monty Python skit where successful business men on vacation in Hawaii are trying to outdo each other in how poor they started out.

"We lived in a septic tank"

"Septic tank, luxury! We used to dream of living in a septic tank."
 
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