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Title: Show us your desktops
Post by: CorvetteK225 on 06 July 2011, 02:03:05 AM
I decided to do a post about my work area over on my blog http://chargebayonet.blogspot.com/2011/07/hobby-desk-well-corner-actually_05.html (http://chargebayonet.blogspot.com/2011/07/hobby-desk-well-corner-actually_05.html). Here's the main pic itself:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CN11hHpOZrw/ThOZHpRuv6I/AAAAAAAAAQI/VP9xCLFISqg/s400/077.JPG)
Please stop by and have a read if you like. And while you're at it, post a pic here of your work station!  :)

Dave
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: jchaos79 on 10 July 2011, 12:53:04 PM
So nice, your desktop invite to tranquility.

I show you my desktop/workbench

(http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu205/jchaos79/cajon%20desastre/sitiopintura.jpg)

When I lived with my brother, I used to have a restaurant tray with all the stuff, paints, brushes, etc... it was easy to to take the tray and place it in the top of a wardrope. When I liked to paint, just take the tray and you are painting in less than a minute. I recommend that for the people which can not have a static/regular place becasue they live in a crowded house. If you have to mount all the staff, it is very possible to not paint because man are lazy by nature  :P
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: CorvetteK225 on 10 July 2011, 05:44:57 PM
Nice desk!  8)  I like how you have it by the window so as to take advantage of the natural light. Your notebook looks to be very well organized too. In my case, my notebook looks nothing like the clean desktop I work from. It is all tattered, and my handwriting is horrible!  ;D  I found your pointing out that man is naturally lazy to be quite funny. I definitely fit the description!  :D

Dave
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Leon on 10 July 2011, 07:15:45 PM
I took a quick pic of the Pendraken desk but the lighting was awful!  I'll get another done.
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: fred. on 10 July 2011, 09:01:42 PM
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mzHb-xpuVMU/ThoR7Mi-jgI/AAAAAAAAAeg/UShbWHvhJHk/s576/photo.JPG)

This is my rather darker and messier desk! Believe it or not I only tidied up a week or so ago
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: CorvetteK225 on 12 July 2011, 10:38:47 PM
Messy can be fine if production is still high! That would be the real gauge of it being a detractor or not. Mine may be neat, but my production is quite low. Thanks for sharing! :)

Dave
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: CorvetteK225 on 12 July 2011, 10:40:06 PM
Leon, where's the pic?!  :-w
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Leon on 13 July 2011, 01:27:51 AM
It'sa coming!  I just tried taking one on my phone and emailing it through, but that doesn't appear to have worked...

EDIT: And tried uploading direct from the phone, but it's not having that either...
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: wargamesbob on 19 August 2011, 10:43:51 PM
There is organization amongst the clutter - honest. The workstation has a west facing window behind, so has optimized sunlight just after I get home from work, and I also use a daylight lamp on the desk. All I need now is someone with a steady hand to apply the paint as directed  ;)

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Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: nikharwood on 20 August 2011, 12:08:03 AM
Looks pretty organized to me wargamesbob  :)

I'm going to tidy up a bit before I take my pic... :-[
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Kiwidave on 29 August 2011, 08:55:20 PM
A bit late in the day, but here's mine:
http://kiwidave.pbworks.com/w/page/7780160/Miscellaneous (http://kiwidave.pbworks.com/w/page/7780160/Miscellaneous)
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Leon on 30 August 2011, 02:21:12 AM
That's pretty nice actually, I like that.  The Vallejo racks are a handy touch.  8)
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Kiwidave on 30 August 2011, 07:29:44 AM
My bodging skills at their best! :)
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: CorvetteK225 on 30 August 2011, 12:41:51 PM
The racks are are great idea! I like the help you've contracted to paint your armies. Keeping the worker in your own house may raise the food bill but, saves on postage!  :D

Dave
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Spenno on 30 August 2011, 02:32:39 PM
I'd photo the desktop that I work on but i paint at the kitchen table, coffee table, work desk, floor or stood up at a work bench and have all my paints, brushes and basing materials in boxes that I carry around making me look like some sort of painting/hobby hobo lol
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Kiwidave on 30 August 2011, 02:34:35 PM
Quote from: fred12df on 10 July 2011, 09:01:42 PM
...Believe it or not I only tidied up a week or so ago

Been there! Usually after each completed project I do a tidy up, and it lasts about a day.....
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 30 August 2011, 02:44:59 PM
Mine is the dining room table (taken by a webcam on teh laptop), but at the moment it's covered in  school work and I'm VERY VERY bored!   :'( :'( :'(
I usually paint late at night, when the Sainted Mrs Lemmey is trying to put the boss to bed!  :(
Giving up work and getting the paints out now, will post of a picture of what it really looks like later...   ;D

(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/Picture0004.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Kiwidave on 30 August 2011, 02:46:25 PM
Is that the Hand of God telling you to paint?  :D
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: GordonY on 30 August 2011, 03:10:40 PM
I'm too ashamed to take a piccy of mine, its a 5 foot by 3 foot desk and the space available to paint in is smaller than an A4 page, the rest is covered in the general clutter of paint pots, tubs of this and that, and my 27 drawers of unpainted figures (there are more but theyre hidden in boxes in the cupboard)

:-[ :-[ :-[
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 30 August 2011, 03:16:10 PM
Quote from: Kiwidave on 30 August 2011, 02:46:25 PM
Is that the Hand of God telling you to paint?  :D

Or telling me there is no beer in this picture!
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Leon on 30 August 2011, 04:04:55 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 August 2011, 02:44:59 PM
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/Picture0004.jpg)

Painting 10mm must be hard when you've got such massive hands...  ;D
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Paint it Pink on 31 August 2011, 09:23:57 AM
Here's me and mine:

(http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/8571/92982092.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Hertsblue on 31 August 2011, 02:14:04 PM
Quote from: GordonY on 30 August 2011, 03:10:40 PM
I'm too ashamed to take a piccy of mine, its a 5 foot by 3 foot desk and the space available to paint in is smaller than an A4 page, the rest is covered in the general clutter of paint pots, tubs of this and that, and my 27 drawers of unpainted figures (there are more but theyre hidden in boxes in the cupboard)

:-[ :-[ :-[

Ditto. My wife bought me two steel-mesh cabinets to house everything about twelve months ago. Now the tops are all covered in drying figures. Hey ho!  X_X
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: wargamesbob on 01 September 2011, 07:53:06 PM
Paint it Pink, that's what I wanted my desk to look like !
I'm intrigued by the soldering iron lurking in the background, that's serious kit for someone working with white metal!
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Paint it Pink on 02 September 2011, 07:05:09 AM
Not as serious as the Dremel?

How about my drill press, or the Perris miniature lathe, which you can't see as they are in the workshop. I do lots of different model making and have acquired stuff over the years. I'd guess you would say I'm a model maker!
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: ryman1 on 19 March 2013, 11:45:09 AM
Bit late but new here so......

(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8387/001psz.jpg)

Her royal missusness allows it in the corner of the living room as I convinced her that it was less intrusive than a 6x4 table in the kitchen :)
You'll note there's no light, I find painting under artificial light strains the eyes and tends to make me miss details.
Gonna have a tidy up soon, looks cluttered but that's only because I tend to work on 4 or 5 projects at once.
Once I get painting 10's I'll have a clear-out and if it's cool with the admin I'll fling a few bits on here free to whoever wants it.

cheers
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: SV52 on 19 March 2013, 12:39:23 PM
(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/cameronian/Desk01_zpsbb5725ad.jpg)

Tidy 'cos a project's just been finished and the next is queued up to start.
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: kev1964 on 19 March 2013, 01:46:30 PM
Quite tidy now cos iv,e just seen both of your,s  ;D.

(http://imageshack.us/a/img401/6559/mine003.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Leon on 19 March 2013, 02:29:55 PM
Good to see some more of these, thanks for posting!  8)

Quote from: ryman1 on 19 March 2013, 11:45:09 AM
Bit late but new here so......

And great to see a Pendraken catalogue sitting there as well!

:D
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: GordonY on 19 March 2013, 05:32:40 PM
Well in the spirit of "I'll show you mine etc"

(http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n17/GordonY/desktop_zps8292789f.jpg)

told ya it was messy.
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Nav on 19 March 2013, 05:45:53 PM
Quote from: SV52 on 19 March 2013, 12:39:23 PM
(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/cameronian/Desk01_zpsbb5725ad.jpg)

Tidy 'cos a project's just been finished and the next is queued up to start.

Are those Hat industrie models i see there
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: fred. on 19 March 2013, 05:51:19 PM
Here's mine - so to speak

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-x_6GjQIr41I/UUikn9NK6xI/AAAAAAAAByo/uPbWjbj5ntQ/s800/IMG_0485.jpg)

My missus saw one of the above photos and asked if it was my desk!
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: SV52 on 19 March 2013, 09:48:15 PM
Quote from: Nav on 19 March 2013, 05:45:53 PM
Are those Hat industrie models i see there

Yup, certainly are; awaiting start, WW1 Ottoman artillery.  8070 is same infantry, a second battalion for the one already done.
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Hertsblue on 20 March 2013, 08:59:39 AM
Quote from: kev1964 on 19 March 2013, 01:46:30 PM
Quite tidy now cos iv,e just seen both of your,s  ;D.

(http://imageshack.us/a/img401/6559/mine003.jpg)


Hey Kev, I've got one of those magnifying glass/lights too. And yes, it has the same random streaks of colour all over it too. When you're trying to paint and look through it at the same time it's easy to miss the figure!  :( 
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Leon on 20 March 2013, 09:44:28 AM
Quote from: fred    12df on 19 March 2013, 05:51:19 PM
Here's mine - so to speak

I think you need a bigger screen there...  :o
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: General Bt Sherman on 23 March 2013, 03:53:11 PM
I want to play too. Here's my current set up. I call it my happy place.  :)
-Bryan

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-R-do9VvbllY/UU3N316zrrI/AAAAAAAAHbg/MugsXbu6CKM/s800/P3232584.JPG)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rnVJZ9QTgWM/UU3N4hC-pHI/AAAAAAAAHbo/R4g0-LQvav8/s800/P3232588.JPG)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-90oLZN1TQHI/UU3N3TvUyHI/AAAAAAAAHbc/w0JvzzOqvhc/s800/P3232589.JPG)
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: ryman1 on 23 March 2013, 05:26:15 PM
Bryan,

You should have said you were short on paints, I'll have a whip around for you  :D
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: sebigboss79 on 23 March 2013, 05:34:53 PM
 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

and I thought I had loads paints and stuff...
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: nikharwood on 23 March 2013, 05:49:12 PM
Quote from: general_btsherman on 23 March 2013, 03:53:11 PM
I want to play too. Here's my current set up. I call it my happy place.  :)
-Bryan

Now that really is a happy place  :x 8) :x
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Steve J on 23 March 2013, 05:52:17 PM
I hate you Bryan  :'( :'( :'(.
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: sebigboss79 on 23 March 2013, 05:59:48 PM
Quote from: nikharwood on 23 March 2013, 05:49:12 PM
Now that really is a happy place  :x 8) :x

Nah...no Totty... :P
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: nikharwood on 23 March 2013, 06:19:17 PM
Quote from: sebigboss79 on 23 March 2013, 05:59:48 PM
Nah...no Totty... :P

True, true... :D
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: General Bt Sherman on 23 March 2013, 06:53:37 PM
Quote from: ryman1 on 23 March 2013, 05:26:15 PM
Bryan,

You should have said you were short on paints, I'll have a whip around for you  :D

I'm always short on paint. :D I just recently added most the Reaper paint to my collection after I found it pretty cheap on e-bay.
Bryan
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: General Bt Sherman on 23 March 2013, 06:55:57 PM
Quote from: nikharwood on 23 March 2013, 05:49:12 PM
Now that really is a happy place  :x 8) :x

It would be if I had a beer in the photo.
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: Leon on 23 March 2013, 08:25:43 PM
That must be the whole Vallejo range?!   :o
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: petercooman on 23 March 2013, 08:29:56 PM
Quote from: Leon on 23 March 2013, 08:25:43 PM
That must be the whole Vallejo range?!   :o

Nah only the model colour range i think, not the game color.

Still, whole lotta paint!!
Title: Re: Show us your desktops
Post by: General Bt Sherman on 23 March 2013, 09:40:04 PM
Quote from: Leon on 23 March 2013, 08:25:43 PM
That must be the whole Vallejo range?!   :o

Nope, not the whole range. I would say that I have most of the Model color range. My local hobby store carries Vallejo, so I only buy them when I need them. The Reaper range is complete.... I think.
Bryan