Delbert's Scale Model Building Stash of Stuff!
Building Model's since December 2001

Some of My Tools and Stuff

My Toolbox..

This is a Stanley roll around tool box I got at Wal-Mart on sale about a year ago. It is how I keep organized and protect my work in progress. Before I got this toolbox, I kept my stuff in shoe boxes, 1 box for paint, 1 box for spay cans, another box for tools and other boxes for parts. By the time I had all my stuff out, a half hour would have gone by. The toolbox solution works for me. I pull out my table and toolbox in 2 min flat and start working. And then when I'm done, it goes right back in the closet hiding my mess so my wife stays happy, because out of sight, out of mind.

My toolbox is organized as follows. The top compartment is just right for paint bottles, so it is full of paint. The lid holds some light cardboard I cut up and use to hold my parts as I paint them and other flat items such as the current reference book I am using. Of the 3 small drawers I use the left one for paint brushes, the middle for Knife's, cutters, and like items, and the right one is for my pin vise, drill bits and tweezers.

The skinny drawer under those holds some reference books and masking tape. And the next slightly larger one has my weathering powders, pipettes, sanding sticks and sanding pads, clothespin's (great for holding parts while drying), and saws.

The bottom drawer of the top section and the top drawer of the lower section hold my works in progress. The large bottom drawer holds larger items such as a bag of latex gloves, small bottles of thinner for cleaning my airbrush and paint brushes and anything else I can throw in.

And the bottom part of my toolbox holds my compressor, equipment sets for military models, low odor thinner for cleaning my airbrush and my painting and modeling logbooks. ( I keep notes of everything I paint and how it comes out. Writing stuff down helps set it in my mind and learn.

Click on the thumbnails below to check out some of my junk and thoughts.



 

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