Renovating my workshop

[cnrglen]

Well I finished cleaning up this afternoon, tackling the workbench. I can tell you that the garbage can is going to be pretty full this week.

Now that it's all cleaned up I thought I'd give you guys a tour.

Starting with the new shelves I added a shelf for my ancient laptop. It's at least 10 years old (running windows XP)

It's not hooked up to the internet. Mostly I use it for reference photos when I'm working or run a movie on it's DVD player.
The Shelving itself holds my paint can collection, as well as the magazines I couldn't fit on the bookcase.

the deeper shelves hold more paint and my paint stripping materials on the top shelf, and my drill press, disc sander, and other tools on the next shelf. I added some plywood shielding to the sides of this shelf so that the debris doesn't fly everywhere.


the next two shelfs hold boxes of parts and some projects that are in various stages of completion. I managed to get all these brown boxes from work that are just the right size to hold and HO engine or car lying on it's side. Other boxes hold my decal collection, MDC kit parts among other items.
On the very bottom is the two trays holding the majority of my bottled paints.

One tray holds Testors and Modelmaster as well as all my floquil paints. the other holds Scalecoat, Tamiya, Humbrol and some miscellaneous paints and stains. I have a green cabinet below my workbench that holds Polly-S, Model master Railroad Acrylics, and craft acrylic paints. There's probably 300+ bottle in all.

And the workbench.
I can actually put things down on it now without stacking on other things.
In the very top are all the kits that I've been collecting that will be built someday (yeah, right)
In the right shelves are some hardboard trays containing projects that I'm currently working on, the left slots hold more Polly-S and Model master acrylic paints as well as all the glues and adhesives that I use. the drawers on the right hold tools.

Finally my airbrush setup. I'm not sure the origin of the spray booth. It looks professionally made but I inherited it from another modeller. I have it venting outside through the window. I had a 3/4" piece of plywood cut to fit in the window tracks. Under the booth is my airbrush compressor and a few tools. You can see the two Cary S-2 models waiting for their paint.