I would but my camera is under there somewhere
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
I have a generous sized work bench but it is so full of things I am working on there is not a lot of open work space:
Yes its a bit of a mess but I have run out of storage space to put things aside.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Mines not usually this neat, hence the need for photos to show that it's possible.
...and in a small adjoining room:
This spray booth has since been moved to the garage, in its own very small room. Because it's 3:00AM, and there's about a 100' trek through the snow and cold to get to it, no picture of that area. This spot has, of course, been filled with other stuff:
Wayne
yankee flyer Holy Cow Batman, That work area is amazing. Not only is my layout low tech but even my humble my work bench is, well humble. Now, If I were to get ambitious, the basement walls are about 40' X 40' for an around the wall layout. Truly. Amazing. Batman Have a good one. Lee
Holy Cow Batman, That work area is amazing.
Not only is my layout low tech but even my humble my work bench is, well humble. Now, If I were to get ambitious, the basement walls are about 40' X 40' for an around the wall layout.
Truly. Amazing. Batman
Have a good one.
Lee
Thanks Lee.
I consider myself really lucky with the space I have for the hobby. I would trade it for a good basement though. I think an around the walls situation is the best choice, if given one. No basement in my house though.
I'll have to suffer with the Bar, Lazyboy and fireplace and separate room for the workbench.
JeremyB. You're hired!
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Sorry, I lack the ambition to put my chip in the camera go down take a photo of something that looks pretty much like everyone else's, upload the photo to photo-bucket, post here and then put the wife's chip back in the camera!
I can say that last Thursday I completely cleaned off my work bench and ordered my paint shelf. The bench looked good until I started another project and now, again looks like most everyone else's!
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
doctorwayne This spray booth has since been moved to the garage, in its own very small room. Because it's 3:00AM, and there's about a 100' trek through the snow and cold to get to it, no picture of that area. This spot has, of course, been filled with other stuff:
doctorwayne:
3:00 AM? No wonder you're such a great modeler. You do it 24/7!
Rick Krall
What it looked like about a year ago, before it was put into use
Best leave it at that for now!
Great Setups Guys
Dave - What is that you use to keep screwdrivers and pliers in? looks handy
Wayne - Great way of keeping your magazine and reference materials, mine are all stored in plastic drawers so when I need to find a article Its a pain to go back and look through them all. I might have to get a small shelf to do what you have done. My train books are all in another cabinet and it would be nice to keep them with the magazines.
Here's mine
It's in the office so there's some other junk in there with it, some of which is visible in the picture.
Enjoy
Paul
Here's an outdated pic (over a year ago) of my workbench before it was reorganized last winter
Since April 2011, it's also doubled as a spot to set my paintings to dry so I can use my main easel.
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
Easely nice pictures~
OK, LION BENCH part II
It is cleaned up a little bit. I added a test track in the back. The idea is to time new equipment so that it runs at the proper speed at the specified voltage.
The pink trays on the table hold the train when I am working on it. Since I tied all of my trains together with draw bars and cables, you have to lift all six cars as a unit. Thus the foam trays. I also have the advantage of sliding the train east and west in front of me while I work on it, as well as lifting it as a unit to carry it to and from the layout. There are now six such trains running loose on my railroad, with two more in boxes waiting to be altered for service on the Route of the Broadway LION.
Do not tell the cats about altered... They think they are normal.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Kevin.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful artwork with us. I'll bet you've got one heck of a backdrop on your layout.
can you use your layout as a work bench or storage space?
my loco/ car storage the bottom part is full, the one above is all of my BN stuff(even my exec hockey stick train)
my workbench next to my bed but atop a box... my GP15 getting superdetailed and the vomit bonnet awaiting it's handrail painting...
and my layout.... speaks for itself
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Here is mine from a while ago, it is a little cleaner in spots but worse in others.
Rick J
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
JeremyB
The screwdriver/pliers holder is just a cheap molded plastic shelf with various sized holes in it that I picked up who knows where many years ago. It is mounted on a plywood stand so it can be moved if necessary. Never have had the need to move it though. I drilled some smaller holes along the back of the shelf to accomodate paint brushes.
dstarr Stupid Beast is planning to leap down and dash away somewhere. She was hand placed on the bench to jazz up this photo. This is my bench right after a shop cleanup. Model railroading tools are in the red wood toolbox to the right side of the bench. Besides model railroading, I do wood working, auto repair, electronics tinkering, and other stuff in this shop. Not in this picture are some very useful full sized power tools, drill press, band saw, and radial arm saw. O M G ! Every model railroaders worst nightmare ! A CAT within 500 feet of a model railroad, and to scale it's the same size as GODZILLA and probably more destructive. I hope no structures were destroyed in the making of this photo.
Stupid Beast is planning to leap down and dash away somewhere. She was hand placed on the bench to jazz up this photo. This is my bench right after a shop cleanup. Model railroading tools are in the red wood toolbox to the right side of the bench. Besides model railroading, I do wood working, auto repair, electronics tinkering, and other stuff in this shop. Not in this picture are some very useful full sized power tools, drill press, band saw, and radial arm saw.
O M G ! Every model railroaders worst nightmare ! A CAT within 500 feet of a model railroad, and to scale it's the same size as GODZILLA and probably more destructive. I hope no structures were destroyed in the making of this photo.
The cat not withstanding...........where do you live that still has what appear's to be leafy trees in what's the dead of winter here in Indiana??? Bill
Not in its present shape I won't. Let's just suffice it to say that it resembles Lion's, only worst. Although, in my own defense, I AM in the midst of a rather extensive (and ambitious) project.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
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I think I see a Yankee screw driver. I didn't think anyone else had them these days. Before battery powered drills that was all I had to drive screws with on some job sites. Mine was the biggest I could buy and now it is a keep sake, to remind me of the good old days. When the variable speed drills came out I shoved my Yankee adapter for commercial tips in the chuck of a Vspeed drill and life was good. Funny what catches the eye of an old carpenter.
Have a good day.
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A lot of you folks should be ashamed at yourselves showing what you consider to be a workbench in such states of existences! How can you possibly get any w*rk done in a place like that?
Now this is the way to have your workbench all set to tackle that new and great project you have been putting off. Here I am examining the fine points of a Tortious Machine and trying to find a misplaced tool....
Lion I think with practice you could become a reasonably adept modeler. You're off to a good start...
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I think I see two yankee screwdrivers. There appears to be a smaller newer model towards the right side of the rack.
HEY! you do not store drill bits on you work bench with the points up!
Speaking of workbenches and cats...
GRRRrrrrrrrrr
Ayup, that's a Yankee screwdriver model 130A. It came to me from a yard sale some years ago. You can still get bits for them, that's a new set of bits on the far left of the bench. Those battery drill/drivers are nice. I've had two of them. They were so nice that I gave both of them away as Christmas gifts to my children, leaving me with the trusty old Yankee screwdriver. The Yankee had enough omph to screw the bench together, it sank a lot of 3 inch #10 flathead woodscrews into the 2*6's that form the bench top.
I didn't use it to screw the layout wall brackets to the studs. I used my variable speed electric drill for that, probably because I didn't have the Phillips bit for the Yankee at the time. Only later did I buy the full set of Yankee bits.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
hon30critter Lee I think I see two yankee screwdrivers. There appears to be a smaller newer model towards the right side of the rack. Dave
Ayup. The small one is a Stanley, mostly plastic model, that I have possessed since the 1970's, a much longer time than I've had the Yankee. It came with both drill bits and screwdriver bits, so with one tool you can drill a screwhole and then sink the screw. I don't really need two such tools, but you know how it is, sentimental value and all.
PARTSGUY The cat not withstanding...........where do you live that still has what appear's to be leafy trees in what's the dead of winter here in Indiana??? Bill
I took that picture back in July of 2011. That time of year, we have plenty of green trees up here in New Hampshire.
dstarr I didn't use it to screw the layout wall brackets to the studs. I used my variable speed electric drill for that, probably because I didn't have the Phillips bit for the Yankee at the time. Only later did I buy the full set of Yankee bits.
In the early 60s when I was using mine I bought an adapter that let me use the small tips that guys in the factory's were using in their electric and air screw guns. I bought the tips in packs of 20 or so. Drill bits an all kinds of screw driver tips would fit in the adapter. I don't know if a person could even find this adapter now.The only draw back is that the (spline?) had to be cleaned and lubricated quite often.
Hang on to your tools in fifty years they will be worth a fortune.
Good day.
yankee flyer dstarr I didn't use it to screw the layout wall brackets to the studs. I used my variable speed electric drill for that, probably because I didn't have the Phillips bit for the Yankee at the time. Only later did I buy the full set of Yankee bits. In the early 60s when I was using mine I bought an adapter that let me use the small tips that guys in the factory's were using in their electric and air screw guns. I bought the tips in packs of 20 or so. Drill bits an all kinds of screw driver tips would fit in the adapter. I don't know if a person could even find this adapter now.The only draw back is that the (spline?) had to be cleaned and lubricated quite often. Hang on to your tools in fifty years they will be worth a fortune. Good day. Lee
I think this might be the adapter you are thinking off. Came up in a straightforward Google for "Yankee screwdriver bits"
http://toolmonger.com/2008/01/29/hex-adapter-for-yankee-screwdrivers-newdraft/
The locking collar is an improvement, but yes that's it.
Uhh, my bad ,
Anyone else have a work bench?
BATMAN Kevin. Thanks for sharing your wonderful artwork with us. I'll bet you've got one heck of a backdrop on your layout. Brent
Actually, I don't have backdrops on my current layout. I rent my townhouse, and since I have a sectional layout, I didn't want to have seams in my sky. I'll definitely have some happy clouds on a nice backdrop when I'm able to build my permanent layout. :)
Here is my workbench, a Athearn Chessie System SD50 getting detail work, Roundhouse Southern boxcar with a new road number, Wright Trak radio car getting some grab irons, and a Wright Trak Southern caboose still in the box. Earl...