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Post by mm2snipe on Aug 7, 2013 19:53:08 GMT -5
New to this site and figure I got to start someplace. Built models in my office after I retired. Built kits in my teens - then not until I retired about 9 years ago. a 45/50 year hiatus. I finally just ran out of room and convenience, sooo - Took a storeroom full of junk and made it into a great space.  Nice large work surface. Plenty of lighting with under shelf lights and plug strips for electricals. Thats a 1/700 Trumpy Yorktown in progress on the bench.  The spray booth I built. Thats a 1/350 Trumpy ESSEX. I wanted to see how it fit. I can spin the whole thing around in there. I like ESSEX class carriers as I served on the USS ESSEX CVS-9 in the 60's. I've got a vintage Revell 1/540 kit of ESSEX in her 1957 configuration with the angle deck. A guy in Florida (Matt Stein) furnished me with all the aircraft I needed for a fulkl compliment of the correct planes in that scale. Got new decals from a Canadian and PE from Gold Medal. I want to do that puppy RIGHT as thats my ship.  The booth, booth lights and compressor all wired through switches for easy control. The floor is white vinyl tile. Is great for finding bits of styrene parts, PE and even clear styrene parts. New comfortable chair too.  These are bits laying on the white floor - 1/700 PE aircraft props and two colors of steyrene parts/spru. The palest is white spru from my Titanic kit. The long narrow strip is 1/700 perforated safety netting in stainless that fits around a deck edge elevator. The rectangular thing is a 1/700 floater net.   The booth was made of leftover sheet metal from my shop. It is a downdraft in design, filters below the perforated floor, has a light fixture in the upper hood and vents through the window to the outside. All told cost me $60.00 to build as I had the sheet metal, light, electricals, blower in the shop stash.  What prompted me to build my own was, I do 1/350 scale aircraft carriers and wanted a booth capable of taking a model 36 inches long. The biggest I could find was only 30 inches long, so with a photo or two and some ideas from various modeling sites, I built this one. Works great. I cover the walls with butcher paper stuck on with magnets to make cleaning it easier.  Got a radio/cd player. Having the booth in the room is much better than heating up my whole 2000 sq ft workshop in winter so I can airbrush for 15 min plus the convenience. Only need a coffee pot and a small fridge for the beer.  Will post some of my models next. Where is a good place on this forum to do pics of my completed models and / or models in progress? E J |
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Post by deafpanzer on Aug 7, 2013 20:20:00 GMT -5
Great cave you got! I have to say this... I have exactly same chair you have... so cozy!!!
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Post by JT on Aug 14, 2013 13:11:36 GMT -5
here my little setup, Its a small space but works well for my needs   |
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Post by mm2snipe on Aug 14, 2013 14:06:26 GMT -5
here my little setup, Its a small space but works well for my needs  Nice spot. Is that a window I spy behind your chair? Wish I could see out. EJ |
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Post by deafpanzer on Aug 14, 2013 15:13:22 GMT -5
I love CLEAN work benches! Great looking man cave you got. Dig both Canada and USA flags. My parents who are Americans but lives in Canada for five months in the summer so I love visiting your country every year. |
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Post by Deano on Aug 14, 2013 15:25:30 GMT -5
Well I certainly dont have a clean bench but not for the want of trying lol................  My display cabinets of shame , there is only one finished model amongst that and its being sold . Some only need a few things doing to finish them tho   Very cluttered at the moment but I am working on two kits  Cheers Deano |
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Post by bullardino on Aug 14, 2013 15:26:30 GMT -5
LOL, that should be a cluttered bench? Look at mine above  |
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Post by Deano on Aug 14, 2013 15:29:46 GMT -5
Yeah you win that one Luigi lol Deano |
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Post by deafpanzer on Aug 14, 2013 16:36:19 GMT -5
LOL! I don't think anybody can beat my friend Luigi! Great cave! Always wanted that glass displaying shelves for models... is it from IKEA?
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Post by Deano on Aug 16, 2013 3:14:26 GMT -5
Hi Andy , yes both are from Ikea and very reasonably priced , Im planning to get another for the rest of my unfinished builds lol.
Deano
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Post by deafpanzer on Aug 16, 2013 7:45:39 GMT -5
Hi Andy , yes both are from Ikea and very reasonably priced , Im planning to get another for the rest of my unfinished builds lol Thanks mate! Now can you talk with my wife into buying those sets? LOL I always thought they looked cool... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 12:24:07 GMT -5
Wow! What awesome Man Caves! I'm too embarrassed to show mine 
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Post by beast on Aug 21, 2013 10:55:04 GMT -5
Mine is located in my garage and takes up about a fifth of it but as i get more experienced the more things i need so it's slowly but surely expanding. The larger part of the garage is my gym (i do powerlifting/ bodybuilding) My garage has three very distinct advantages, 1) There's an internal door leading straight to my grub supply in the kitchen, 2) It's my gym so instead of watching paint dry, i can crack on with a few sets of heavy squats (the continuous progress principle!) and 3) I've fitted a pot belly wood burning stove for the winter so have great warmth and a crackling fire while i give some model the good news with my Iwata!  |
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Post by deafpanzer on Aug 21, 2013 12:48:52 GMT -5
Great cave... gym? That's something I should have done. I play iPad games while glue or paint is drying. LOL I spot a cool looking Panther on your bench. Love the camo... more pics please?
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Post by beast on Aug 21, 2013 13:04:14 GMT -5
Great cave... gym? That's something I should have done. I play iPad games while glue or paint is drying. LOL I spot a cool looking Panther on your bench. Love the camo... more pics please? Hey dude, you'll find the Panther on the Gallery under Panther revamp. Yeah the gym has always been my number 1 thing since my teens, was lucky enough to move to a bigger house a short while back which a allowed me my own set up. Best of both worlds my man! |
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Post by Steve Zuleski on Aug 21, 2013 22:48:15 GMT -5
Awesome bunkers Guys!
I just rearranged my paint into a rack today, never done that before, lol. Yall are too organized. A messy desk is the sign of a genius, or so they say, HA!
Cheers, Ski.
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Post by 406 Silverado on Aug 21, 2013 23:56:06 GMT -5
Been quite some time since I ventured here in this board. Man some of you fellas have some awesome man caves, and well, Luigi I don't feel so bad now...lol. Mine is an organized mess, I know where everything is at and what parts go to what. Will have to take a pic tomorrow of my clutter.
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Post by bbd468 on Aug 28, 2013 12:15:40 GMT -5
Me too Rob, i let this thread get away from me.  Had a long look to catch up and i love the Mancave setups and have some new ideas to try when i set up my bench soon in my new diggs. Got my eye on a nice used desk at a Used Office Supply Store.....Lots of potential me thinks. |
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Post by merseajohn/ on Sept 30, 2013 15:21:12 GMT -5
Some lovely Mancaves!! And models, here's my new place, it's a box room but it does me fine:   The paint rack was custom built by our own John Page: myworld.ebay.co.uk/sphereproducts? |
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Post by bullardino on Oct 1, 2013 0:52:30 GMT -5
Really nice, John |
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Post by AndyArgent. on Oct 1, 2013 4:47:59 GMT -5
John that is the tidiest neatest cleanest bench i have ever seen.
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Post by merseajohn/ on Oct 1, 2013 17:10:43 GMT -5
Thanks guys, Andy it's not that tidy anymore lol
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Post by deafpanzer on Oct 5, 2013 0:00:46 GMT -5
NICE and NEAT! You have my seal of approval... LOL
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Post by bbd468 on Oct 9, 2013 13:21:34 GMT -5
Gawd....i love yer rack John!!! Nice cave fella. |
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Post by merseajohn/ on Oct 19, 2013 16:30:53 GMT -5
Lol thanks guys.
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Post by elco on Oct 20, 2013 4:00:29 GMT -5
Pics are from a while ago.. Before  After    Now it itime to put everything in boxes, in a month are new house is finished and i already claimed a nice spot for my new mancave |
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Post by elco on Oct 20, 2013 5:12:14 GMT -5
Thnx! Before 'THE boys' start draging out stuff ill make sure i secured my builds the day before |
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Post by bbd468 on Oct 20, 2013 10:51:06 GMT -5
Hiya Elco! Man, i feel for ya! Me and my sis recently moved and it seemed to take 10 years off our life span.....IT SUX! The hardest part (other that physical stuff) was packing away the modeling stuff, then not having a place to get set back up for a long period of time.  I just now got my becnh about 90% complete as i envisioned it. Need to sort out some more proper lighting to my right and a better spot for my compressor. Just snapped these pics.   The desk i used but i recently acquired it. I love having all the drawers for my modeling stuff. Especially after modelling for several years on a folding table. Good luck on the move Elco. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2013 12:21:37 GMT -5
Gary,me old mate!!!...That bench is just TOO FERKIN TIDY!!!!!!  .....Love the piccie of 'The Cuckoo',BTW  I'll let you into a little secret,but be sure and not tell anyone,but I got a shelf like Mersea Johns coming.(Similar.anyway!! ) |
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Post by bbd468 on Oct 20, 2013 12:33:38 GMT -5
Gary,me old mate!!!...That bench is just TOO FERKIN TIDY!!!!!! .....Love the piccie of 'The Cuckoo',BTW I'll let you into a little secret,but be sure and not tell anyone,but I got a shelf like Mersea Johns coming.(Similar.anyway!! ) DAG NABIT Cee Bee !!!  Where did ya come by that, if i may?  Ill let you in on a little secret....The 'Cuckoo' picture was givin to me by a fine gentleman named Chris B. I think you know him very well in fact. Man, i had to tidy up a little before the pic. It werent that messy though. Cheers my friend, McB |
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Had a long look to catch up and i love the Mancave setups and have some new ideas to try when i set up my bench soon in my new diggs. Got my eye on a nice used desk at a Used Office Supply Store.....Lots of potential me thinks. 
Where did ya come by that, if i may? 