joshs workbench

[josh_]

So I decided to make this as a side thing from Connolly shed 

I currently got home and turned my desk into a paint shop

And this was to pimp out these 2 tri ang coaches I had lying around that my mam got me years ago

I picked up a racing green spray from marks and gave it a good smooth coat as Simon told me it was the closest I could get to a CIE green

Surprisingly turned out great as it was first time ever spray painting/detaining a model before 

Came well prepped with the paper stand, goggles and 2 old face masks from Covid but cracked a bit of the plastic which looked bad but worked around it just fine as you see below with the little strips of masking tape

Currently, the paint is drying and will be fitted and then eventually decaled after I spray the roof black and the inside brown as I’m replacing a laminate(well badly attempting)

Hope and love to post all my shenanigans of modelling up here in the future

[josh_]

I do need to work on my lifting as where my desk is it’s quite a dark spot

I’m sketching out an idea of how to tackle this problem as it’s annoying especially dealing like today

I plan to have LEDs on the board of the bedroom circuit above the desk to give me lighting in a better angle to work on as the lil colourful ones are “aesthetic” but downright as they can’t last half an hour before they start to die even with fresh batteries and aren’t bright enough 

[David Holman]

Lighting is indeed important. Aim to have the same on your workbench as you will have on the layout. For LEDs, have found that "cool white" works well.

See that the spellchecker goblin is at work on your thread too (lifting for lighting) - sometimes I wonder what language I'm typing in!

[josh_]

They dried out perfect and i will show my process sunday of me detailing my coaches as i will get some black and brown spraypaint 
Im working with one coach at a time

 

[josh_]

17 hours ago, David Holman said:

Lighting is indeed important. Aim to have the same on your workbench as you will have on the layout. For LEDs, have found that "cool white" works well.

See that the spellchecker goblin is at work on your thread too (lifting for lighting) - sometimes I wonder what language I'm typing in!

Ive LEDS already and i can get them cheap almost anywhere and i would get one like the ones i already have that change colours which can be cool and then have a lamp with a scope to help detail either parts/kits or decals is what i plan or my desk 

Im also been thinking abt getting a proper sturdy desk and chair, for the desk something like an old office desk that i could do up with built in shelves and for the chair ill get either an old office chair or a gaming chair