One of the things I always enjoy here on RCUniverse is when people send in pictures of planes they are building and we get a glimpse of their workbench. It always warms my heart to know that I'm not the only builder out there that let's their work area become a total mess. In fact, I don't know if I could build if my bench wasn't a mess!!

So, let's see everybody's workbenches!!!. Also, tell us a little bit about that little corner of your house that you have claimed as your own plane area. I don't know about everybody else out there, but I think it might be fun to hear how other people had to get creative in order to have an area for their beloved hobby. The only rule is that you have to send in pictures of your work area "as is", NO cleaning it up for pictures. lolol I'll get things started.....

My wife and I own and run a computer/networking business, and as part of our business we run a bank of web servers. When we originally started the business we worked out of the house, and even though we have moved the business to it's own retail location the servers have stayed at home because of the cost involved with moving them. My building area is in my "home office" where our servers are. I had to rip the shelves out of a closet in order to move the servers into that closet. Plus had to modify the air conditioner ducting to get cooling for them. but the work was worth it because it allowed me to put up a building table. I still have to share my building area with work sometimes (as evidenced by the laptop sitting on the workbench). But at least I have an area in the house to work on now, which sure beats the garage I used to use which had no heat or air. The plane currently on the bench is a GP Ultra Sport 60.

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Here's mine. My building board is a solid core door mounted on two under-sink kitchen cabinets (Home Depot about $39.00 each) with two Lind magnetic building boards plus extensions on the surface. The bench against the far wall is an 8' sink countertop (Home Depot about $55.00) mounted on two more under-sink cabinets. Room is 21' x 23' and was already built on when I bought the house. Previous owner used it to raise orchads.

Ceilings are 9'. Not all of the shop shows up in the picture (about 4 feet are missing).

Seems to work fine for me.

Dan

Nice shop dant

Here's my current workshop


My Workshop

I'm finishing a 28'X28' workshop in the second story of my garage. Hope to have it finished before the snow flies (but I said that last year).

It's just over 4ft long and just under 30 inches deep (give or take - its the exact depth of a Neptune Washer & Dryer - what ever that works out to be.. I forget but that is what I used as a benchmark) I built it for simple wood working projects and working on my RC Cars when I used to race. The cars are gone now and planes have taken over.

In this picture I had just taken all the car stuff out and was getting ready to mount the stereo up in the right hand corner of the garage. I have since done that and a Wing MFG AT-6 has taken over the space.

I started to build the texan...

Here's MY mess!

My wife had gone to visit her folks for a month, ssoooo, I built my workbench out of a nice 4 x 8 sheet of 1" ply I had left over. This was also my launch into RC Planes (my brother talked me into it ) I do have a question, what has everyone found to be a nice top to layer with to allow you to use push pins, etc. The ply is way to hard as is......

This was me in the middle of my first plane, a SIG Kadet LT-40, and it just flys great :sunsmiley I am having SO MUCH FUN!! Should have got into this when my brother started......

Oh Yea - to finish the story.....

I managed to tell my wife about my new hobby in bits and pieces before she got back home :surprised

I told her I had built this really nice work bench in the garage for her :spinnyeye

I own the loft in my condo. The computer and the work area are up there... The computer in the picture is actually my fiends, mine is off to the right...

Here's one of the storage area

What can I say,My wife is cool.

GPutt33,
I use acoustic ceiling tiles. you can find plain white tile with no patterns on them at Lowe's, Home Depot, or just about any hardware store. the usually run $2-$3 a piece. very good to pin to, and you can just throw them away when the get cut up.

RCKen - Thanks for the tip, that sounds like the ticket. Will go pick it up tomorrow.

This is my workbench, what you can't see on it is a radio and heater that sit on the end, back wall has some shelves and there are big long shelves opposit the workbench, distance from wall to wall is about 13ft and with the big shelves and workbench that don't leave much floor room. Pretty cramped indeed, my ned glider fuse spans almost the entire length of the workshop and my spitfire won't fit in there with the wing on......

http://members.optushome.com.au/rayg...fre/spit15.jpg

here is my workbrench, in front of it you can see my Madnnes fun fly.


Fernando

heres mine....dant ...ya need to make some kinda mess man..how can ya find anything? lol -Tinman-

tinman,
now that's a bench. I bet you have no problem finding anything??? is that the wings of a DP Ultimate on the left??

Here's my temporary workbench. It's built loosely following Norm Abraham's workbench guidelines. Norm edge banded his worksurface to receive a 1/8" hardboard; I built mine to receive 1/2" sheetrock. It's currently in the bedroom that will soon to be my 5 month's old son's. Da wife has given my a 1yr eviction notice. I'd better get cracking on building my real workshop.

hi ken, yes its a DP . i jus finished it last night...i put a ys140 in it with no added weight....gonna test it soon. -Tin-

Tinman,
I can only say one thing bout the DP. YOUR GONNA LOVE IT. I have one with a YS 120 and it's by far my favorite plane.

have fun!!

This is my work bench, Ken

mornin ken...i knew ya was jus as bad as me.... -Tinman-

A workbench isn't a workbench if you can find it. A clean workbench is the sign of someone without something to build.
For the ultimate mess / build check http://candoo.torqueroll.com
That's a 96" DHC-4 Caribou in the webcam pic

Here's mine.....


I cleaned it up for about four hours today getting ready for the next plane, but still seriously lacking quality horizontal space...LOL

Heres my workspace...Or half of it anyway... Just finished building it into our two car garage. Not quite finished yet. Its sorta clean right now, Would you call it clean or messy?

Tinman, Tell us how your Ultimate flies! Cant wait to finish mine!

Tinman:

You are correct of course!! I think I just found that 4-40 x 1/2 screw I was missing on YOUR workbench right where it ought to be!!

Well, my shop is fixing to get a whole lot messier when I start my Flair Products Stearman this winter.


Dan