Where do you build your Kits?

Crescent Locomotive Works ... ;-)

In the winter: on my desk in the basement.

In the summer: on a folding table in the garage with the garage door open.

I am an early riser.....0430, even when I'm not working....the early morning is a great time for model building for me.

Peter

Don, I do something similar to what you do.  I work on the projects on my dining room table (except for painting of course) and then clean up the mess and move it out to my workbench at the end of that day's work.  Matt

Matt, just counting the days tell you start your layout. I'm sure we will be on the phone a lot. Don

I work on them at my workbench and then set them aside in a project box when I need the bench space for something else. I have a permanent workshop, so that makes it a lot easier. 

SH, I have a work bench but here you almost feel guilty working inside. I do work on engines on the bench because of parts and things but long hours and days working on a kit would drive me crazy down there. Don

Before I retired from a multicare nursing facility I got 4 of these bariatric over the bed tables.  These will support 500 lbs.

These things are fantastic.  I can roll one up to the TV in the cave, work on a project and roll it out of the way when I'm finished.  Because of the way they're constructed I can roll the table right over the layout when needed. 

I have a workshop off my trainroom. I usually work there.  Sometimes if it is a small model that will require only small tools, I bring it down to my study and work on it on the desk there. 

I like to build all my kits on my kit building table located near the train room.

Lee, bet it's more enjoyable working in your study. Maybe it's my chair at the work bench but I think it's just being in a garage for long hours. I get lots more done in a shorter time at my glass table. Don

In the living room

I put on music DVD's and do it'

I have to get the stuff out, and put away afterwards, but that's the only way.

I really enjoy it.

I have a tray table in the bathroom and model 5 minutes each day.

I build my building on future real estate first one when I was building my saw mill and the second is what it look like now with round house and turn table .

Guy 

Hi Kerrigan

This is all scratchbuilt stuff

The tower's are medical  containers with the tab's cut off

The tubing and everything else is plastruc

You are GOOD Joe!!

I build on a half-sheet cake (baking) pan I got at Sam;s.  They are made from heavy gauge aluminum and came in a 2-pack.  They are 18" x 25" with a 1" lip.

They don't bend under weight, and the lip keeps small parts from falling off.  They clean up easily and glue and paint doesn't bother them. 

I work on the table in the family until I'm chased out for meals.  Then the tray goes on a shelf in the train room.

Jan

I have a folding Staples table, and two inherited old tables, one from a kitchen and

one from a dining room.  They are set up under overhead flourescent (garage-type)

lighting, ceiling overhead and, another, hanging over the kitchen table. In the past I have had three different projects going, cut parts on one, glue one, paint one...but lately I just work on one on the smallest old kitchen table. The other two are covered with parts and materials and a few finished models, and need to be cleaned off!  In another house I worked on the dining room table, and on a card table in front of the couch.

Hey Scale Rail

Is that one glue in your picture this?

All 30 of my scratch built structures were done on the kitchen table mainly during the cold winter nights. My wife works as a nurse nights at the asylum. So when she leaves for work, the model building starts. I have a work bench in the basement but the table is easier to sit down and work at.

Joe, yes. There are two "super glues" on the table. One has a brush that I like very much. I buy lots of the glues at one time in town. I have found super glue go's bad after awhile even if you don't open it. Before we moved here I bought large bottles of the stuff thinking it would be hard to find on the island. No one sells the large bottles of it here. They all went bad before I could use them. It lasts much longer if you put it in the freezer. Don

Don

I didn't know that, Thank's  for the tip

I do have two 30"X 70" workbenches that I very seldom use anymore. One is set up with my air brushes and paint supplies. The other was used as a rebuild station for engines and rolling stock.

I'm limited now to small workstation in my train room next to my layout. All within an arms reach of my recliner. All arranged so I can view my TM DVD's and watch TV. Is this the way I want it? Honestly...NO. Life's a beach when you get old . At least I can read my books and run my prewar trains. 

Garage/shop.

The study is classier, has my collection of model ships and etc., and about 1000 books, and faces the street and gets the afternoon sun, all good things.  But I prefer my workshop (below) - it is my paradise and it's set up for heavier projects: you can see the Lioncheif ATSF 1800 project on the workbench now: standing on a pile of wooden boxes to get it up to just below eye level as I start adding details now.  I can't do a project like that in my study.    

Desides what is shown there is another workbench - for painting, etc. - out of sight to the left, and the TV in the corner, which has cable, and a nice radio/C player sound system, and a small fridge and half bath out of side to the right.  I love it!

I have a small table in my train room and the double track runs across it at the back. I can work while the trains roll by. Have AC and TV. You'll notice part of the bridge abutment is an actual piece of rail.

Don...

1.  This is 'Freudian',.....yes?  No?

2.  I had no idea you were as close to the shoreline as this! 

Ah, Maui!  Thou dost have thy way with one's sensibilities!

Here in the hinterlands near Hooterville, my workbench (obscene at best) in the workshop is the site of kit-karnage, and the window above it gazes upon the remnants of a near-record winter....what was once an 8-foot high pile of snow, ice, and blue language at the end of our driveway.   The only way I'd get a 'beach' in my garage is with a fast thaw and the possibility of Noah drifting by.

On the other hand, my cruise to York will be shorter than yours!    13 days, and counting!!!!

KD

A fold up TV table set in front of my recliner in the living room. I multi-task by working on projects during normally wasted time watching TV!  lol

Heavy duty or messy stuff like hacksawing metal or using the Dremel is done at the workbench or out on the front porch on nice days.

I have an 8' work bench and 2 other tables that I build on and there are 3 sections of 30" wide plate glass available for the primary work surface. I also will use my radial saw table top since I like the height.

I have found super glue go's bad after awhile even if you don't open it........... It lasts much longer if you put it in the freezer.

You're storing wrong.  I've kept open bottles of CA in a plastic dessicator with CaSO4 dessicant with indicator dye in it in my shop for over 2 years w/o any failure of the CA.  Putting it into the freezer just condenses moisture into it which catalyzes its failure - it's just slow since it's colder there.

Good morning

My train workshop the laundry room

Clem

Blissfield Railroad Days' Events - Blissfield Main Street

I have a pool table in my basement which is covered and has a 2' x 4' piece of 1/2" plywood on top of the cover.  I build on that.

No.  I don't play pool

---Greg

A nice big flat surface covered in green felt and you didn't set up a layout on it?

Work bench in the garage, dinner table, formal dining room table, or on the layout itself. The formal dining table many times is covered with projects all year until the holidays roll around.

Too small for a layout and it came with the house....and the darn relatives like to play when they visit...could care less about trains. 

Seeing some of the improvised work spaces people have to use makes me realize how lucky I was to find a house with a separate workshop building already in place. The first owner of my house was some kind of small contractor, and he built a 1000 sf building that echoes the style of the main house. The train room was originally his home office. 

Don...

1.  This is 'Freudian',.....yes?  No?

Oh my gosh, it must have been. That is really funny. 

This is my view from the work bench. Don

I work in three different places and have done painting at the kitchen table.  I do all my sawing in the garage.  In the winter, I do it inside the heated garage and in warmer months many times I move the saws to the driveway to reduce cleanup afterwards.  I have a general workbench and vise for heavier stuff and special model workbench for everything else.

Art

I have a small space off the train room.  Used an old door and pair of sawhorses to set a work area where I keep all of my train associated tools, fasteners, adhesives and work on my projects.  Also have a couple of 1033's setup on this table to test accessories before moving to the layout for permanent placement.