State of bench !

[prichrd1]

"a place for everything and everything in its place" .

I remember that line - from 1973!!!! :thumb2:

Hammer Horror short film - guy obsessed with tidying - his Mrs not so - invades his workspace for nail/screw or similar - she upsets everything - he flips - she plants the hammer in him - next scene pans out from a jar with eyeballs blankly staring out - wife standing in front of desk with assorted body parts in assorted jars uttering that famous line !!! :face-with-head-bandage:

Always think of that film when someone says that line!!!!

Paul.
:smiling2:

[boatman]

Good god Chris, you could lose the Bismarck in there:dizzy:

I PROBERLY HAVE Bob as I had some very small battle ships of waterline series so its in there somewhere lol but how it is I can just look at the exsploin of things on the bench an pick up what I want to use as jen tided it up about a month ago an ive treid my hardest to get it back where it was :rolling::cold-sweat::astonished:
chris

[monica]

I find the more space / room you have the even more messy you can be
,but if you clean to much ,I don,t tend to do much as I don,t won,t to make a mess,
maybe something in it,
lots of spots for WIP,

[David Lovell]

To all those with a work bench you lucky lucky ........ I can make the dining room table look like JRs in a matter of minuets not hours ,bless she puts up with it for five or six days but rather than be told for my own safety I put it all back in my modeling cupboard thank the gods she's never looked in there ,mind theres a thought I wonder if the resulting avalanche would kill her if she did.......sorry got to go something I've got to do a minute

[SimonT]

bench :thinking: ..... my knees are always tidy

can't say much for everywhere else though - tools, scratch building supplies and part built kits all over the place

a none modeller would probably say the lounge looks like the council tip - looking at it they could have a point

[Tim Marlow]

I find a desk can get to Chris standard in minutes if I’m scratch building, but if I’m painting it’s kept much more like Steve’s, possibly tidier and very well organised. Mind you, I’m lucky now, I have a build desk and a paint desk......

[mrtintheweb]

My OCD kicked in and I had to look away before I hyperventilate.
Must be immaculate for me, though I’m a dining table user. We eat as a family 3 or 4 times a week so I have to clear away on a regular basis. I also have what may be a weird habit. If I have several sprues with just one or two bits left I will cut them down and glue together as one (see below). I find satisfaction in getting my sprues shrinking down. That sprue has 3 other parts attached (steering wheel, gear lever and one of the black hoses). It also stops me accidentally throwing away parts.
Once on Montys Humber I accidentally threw away the radiator grille and spent ages emptying the kithen bin bags to find it.
My wife also takes the piss if I mention I’m going to the garage to use my ‘spray booth’ (which is an old movers box with a chunk cut out). It’s functional!
T

[boatman]

My wife also takes the piss if I mention I’m going to the garage to use my ‘spray booth’ (which is an old movers box with a chunk cut out). It’s functional!
T

HI Toby why does your SWMBO cock the mick as you said
It’s functional! an does the job as my missus gives me encouragement to build an do modelling as she knows im happy an if im happy then she is so we lead a better life togeather as its now comin uo to 40yrs since we wed
chris an jen

[stona]

my missus gives me encouragement to build an do modelling as she knows im happy an if im happy then she is

Mine sometimes enquires about various packages being delivered, but I remind her that this is a relatively inexpensive hobby. We have a friend who used to go hydroplane racing, he was British champion is one of the classes, I used to help him and his brother on occasion, and that's a seriously expensive hobby, even at his level. The boat was powered by some version of the Coventry Climax engine, not exactly F1 powerboating, but even so!
I 'drove' his boat, briefly, once. It was terrifying, I went for a couple of hundred metres and I never got going fast enough to get it planing properly, but that was enough, thank you very much.

[boatman]

I 'drove' his boat, briefly, once. It was terrifying, I went for a couple of hundred metres and I never got going fast enough to get it planing properly, but that was enough, thank you very much
(Steve quote)

HI Steve yes im not keen on these fast boats doin 50 odd mph an I think they are dangerous as they used to race these on our pond an I see one fly out of the pond an nearly hit a little girl that was to close to an accident as that's why I like my warships they can turn up a fair speed but nothing like these power boats an these ships harm no one only yatchs an subs
chris

[Guest]

Well guys that gave me a good laugh at the replies, so thank you. :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:

Jim's reply was no less than I had expected, but even funnier that I had imagined.:smiling2::smiling2::smiling2:

Its nearly all tidy now,



of course I shall have to get all the paint out again to finish the figures. I can work in a mess for so long, then as it was at work put every thing away and then start again.

The next thing is where Im I going to put all the completed kits, running out of room.





It is quite tidy really your Honor.

JR



Thank you to the mods for moving it to the right forum. :thumb2:

[mrtintheweb]

HI Toby why does your SWMBO cock the mick as you said
It’s functional! an does the job as my missus gives me encouragement to build an do modelling as she knows im happy an if im happy then she is so we lead a better life togeather as its now comin uo to 40yrs since we wed
chris an jen

I asked her. It was apparently my fault for calling an old packing box a 'spray booth'. She does like I have a hobby again that doesn't involve a 20-year-old Porsche and the costs involved.

T

[Jim R]

I suppose it must be a personality/character thing - whether you work best in tidy or untidy surroundings. It certainly doesn't seem to affect the quality of the models produced. If you're obsessively tidy, like I am, you can't imagine working on a cluttered bench and I'm sure if you work surrounded by 'stuff' you can't see any sense in putting away something you're probably going to need again very soon.
It's like everything else in this hobby. No two modellers are the same. Give 10 modellers an identical kit each and you'll get 10 different models. Pete L will summon up the Minions and produce a super detailed Toon. Peter D will swap the heads and finish it superbly in a couple of days. John R will paint it green and set fire to it. Ron will cobble it together, paint it with a 6" brush and put it on a base made from pizza boxes and rubbish from his garden and it will look real. Scottie will super detail the hell out of it and stun us all. Jakko will research the subject, find references from God knows where and produce something with incredible accuracy and Simon T will simple throw away the kit apart from a couple of bits and scratch the rest. AND some will work their magic in chaos and some in clinically neat surroundings.
We are a diverse bunch. Look after yourselves.
Jim

[Guest]

I'm a tidy person - at least I like to try and keep the house that way (not easy with my wife and son who just don't see mess). However, when I'm modelling I quickly create chaos - the needs of the job become the focus and I can't be bothered about things like putting lids back on bottles. My worst habit is wiping my brush on anything at hand, usually my sleeve, but tablecloths. tea-towels etc can fall victim. The only thing that saves me is that I work on the kitchen table, so have to clear everything away when I've finished.

[Dave Ward]

I really can concentrate when I don't have any distractions - I used to listen to music on head/earphones, - walkman, then CD player & finally mp3 player, when I was at work in front of my CAD screen. I could be ignorant of things going on just out of my sight line. I had a phone with a blinking light that told me when I had a call.................
I'd sit and concentrate, every hour, I would get up, go and look out of the window ( to exercise my eyes ). Comfort breaks & coffee refuelling ( free ) as necessary! At first the boss didn't like it, but he realised after a while that this was the way I worked best - the same with my seemingly random visits to the production line ( working things out in my mind )
Looking back I now realise that the stress I was under, due to tight deadlines, long hours, poor eating/drinking habits was the cause of my diabetes ( no family history of it ). One of the project managers described my work regime as 'flogging a willing horse'
Easy to see now, but the amount of design work done was quite remarkable!
Dave