I'm always impressed by how neat and tidy people's workbenches look. This is mine just after I finished the Weekly Herald: a scattering of materials used on the model with other projects pushed off to the edges. But, I always do a post-build cleanup before starting anything new. That's on tap for this week.
Scraps of every project I do remain in place, like, forever. No wonder I'm so sloppy. I just can't bring myself to totally clean up before my next project.
ReplyDeleteFor awhile I tried to clean up as I went from one step of a project to another, but found that slowed down progress and seemed to take the fun out of things. For me, the clean up at the end is sort of a ritual now and puts in a good frame of mind for starting something new.
DeleteAnd I thought the photo was after the cleanup with everything in place for the next task!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words, but no.......That sorta clean area on the left is where the Weekly Herald stood on a stand during final detailing. I have a tendency to push things off to the right as I finish with them, hence the accumulation of things on the right. No such asymmetries after cleanup.
DeleteI tend to push things off to the right as well, but that's because my desk is asymmetrical, with the seating area on the left and drawers beneath the top on the right, hence the main modeling area on the left. Tony Koester wrote an article that is oft quoted about how modelers generally only use no more than 2 square feet of their workbench for the actual cutting, painting, etc. and the rest is occupied by tools and whatnot. I think he's right.
ReplyDeleteHe's right that is what happens here when a project is on the go, although I usually start out more evenly spread out. As the work progresses, and things get glued together, construction seems to move to the left. I assume that's because I'm right-handed, so tools and supplies accumulate on the right.
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