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 Rank: Beginner Level 3 Groups: Registered
Joined: 09/10/2016 Posts: 23 Points: 49 Location: Stuarts Draft, Va
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I have just bought a 8X10 outdoor barn to set up as my workshop. I have insulated it and now ready to set it up with some good tips from you experienced ship builders. I am looking for lighting-flooring wall paneling (peg board or solid)Shelving. I have just about every power or tools tool made for modeling plus many spare parts. I have thought about a portable bench for my saws. While I am not sure I can hook up my WiFi does model space make avaiable CDs that I can use or just download the building logs of those on the forum. Any suggestions or tips is welcomed and I thank you. I am beginning to cut the second layer of gunports on my Victory and I promise I will get my build log up and running by the end of this Feb. oledad 
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Joined: 24/05/2010 Posts: 1,761 Points: 5,351 Location: London & Greece
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Hi ya and welcome.
It only takes a minute to set up the diary page and would love to see a few pics of you new workshop.
The videos are on youtube and can be easily downloaded to a laptop and run offline when you are working, if you need to.
One I I miss doing is constructing a stand for my magazines. The binders take up a lot of space when they lay flat next to me. Standing up behind my work area would have been better.
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Hi Oledad and welcome to the forum looking forward to seeing your build Rgd Martyn Building ?
Completed. Soliei Royal . Sovereign of the Seas . Virginia . Scotland . San Felipe . Corel vasa , Santisima Trinadad X section , Vasa
Next Build ?
When sailors have good wine, They think themselves in heaven for the time. John Baltharpe
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 Hi Oledad Firstly welcome to the forum and enjoy your build. Sounds like a nice set up you have although I would recommend making your own work tables and tool holders as then you can have them just the way you want as most ready to assemble ones are never exactly what you want. I prefere to set up sections one for building one for painting ect but in sure you have your own plans here. Andy  Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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 Rank: Super-Elite    Groups: Registered
Joined: 16/08/2010 Posts: 2,771 Points: 8,344 Location: Brighton
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look forward to seeing your build. Ian Current builds.Hachettes build the bismark,HMS Victory, HMS Hood.
Finished Builds Corel HMS Victory cross section.
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Welcome to the forum, very much hope you will enjoy your time with us... .. Having your very own build workshop is a dream of many and every workshop is different, its all down to personal preference. I'm sure once you start putting your workshop into use you will very quickly find how you want it laid out, adding to and changing things round as the weeks go by.... .. Look forward to seeing how it all turns out for you.... Regards Alan
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Welcome to the forum, looking forward to seeing your build.
Graeme
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Welcome to the forum oledad, I'm sure it will be most useful during your build.
Al
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Welcome oledad. How far away is the workshop from the house and how are you currently getting power to the workshop? The reason I ask is that there are various methods you could use to get Internet to your workshop. You could use a wifi extender or second wifi router to extend the range of the wifi so it reaches your workshop. Another option would be to be use powerline adapters or alternatively you could hard wire a CAT5E or CAT6 cable from your current router and route it out to a wall mounted Ethernet socket in your workshop. The wired option would be the most reliable if it's viable. Hope this helps
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Rank: Beginner Level 3 Groups: Registered
Joined: 09/10/2016 Posts: 23 Points: 49 Location: Stuarts Draft, Va
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z8000783 wrote:Hi ya and welcome.
It only takes a minute to set up the diary page and would love to see a few pics of you new workshop.
The videos are on youtube and can be easily downloaded to a laptop and run offline when you are working, if you need to.
One I I miss doing is constructing a stand for my magazines. The binders take up a lot of space when they lay flat next to me. Standing up behind my work area would have been better. Thanks John. I should be in my shop by end of Feb and will post pic of it before I clutter it up. Have not been able to work on Vic for a while, still working on upper Gunports Page
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Rank: Beginner Level 3 Groups: Registered
Joined: 09/10/2016 Posts: 23 Points: 49 Location: Stuarts Draft, Va
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davetwin wrote:Welcome oledad. How far away is the workshop from the house and how are you currently getting power to the workshop? The reason I ask is that there are various methods you could use to get Internet to your workshop. You could use a wifi extender or second wifi router to extend the range of the wifi so it reaches your workshop. Another option would be to be use powerline adapters or alternatively you could hard wire a CAT5E or CAT6 cable from your current router and route it out to a wall mounted Ethernet socket in your workshop. The wired option would be the most reliable if it's viable. Hope this helps
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 Rank: Master  Groups: Registered
Joined: 07/07/2015 Posts: 1,292 Points: 3,928 Location: Allentown PA
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This is my dream to one day have a workshop like that. Would love to be able to paint year round.
DeAgostini kit builds:
Millennium Falcon: 18% Complete
Shelby GT-500: 28% Complete
Thunderbird 2: 13.75% Complete
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Rank: Beginner Level 3 Groups: Registered
Joined: 09/10/2016 Posts: 23 Points: 49 Location: Stuarts Draft, Va
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Sorry for not replying to everyone but end of Feb I fell and broke both legs. In Hosp for three weeks and nursing home for three months and still doing rehab so my Vic building as been nil but ready to start again as soon as I can get my new shop wired up. After staying away from my build and now looking at it I am not satisfied with it and want to start over again especially in getting the keel-frames square which I am sure is one reason my planking is not looking as good as it should. I ripped all the planking off but feel if I try and remove frames and keel it will be a mess. Should I just start over? I have paid for all of the kit and have all the parts. Will Model Space just allow me to get the first three kits or stages without committing to another Vic. Oledad
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Joined: 10/05/2010 Posts: 2,608 Points: 7,519 Location: Lincolnshire
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Hi Oledad, sounds like you really have been in the wars! Hope you're on the mend now. From what i can gather, there is nothing stopping you from taking out another subscription and starting over. After all they do state that you can cancel any time. However, why not talk to customer services and ask if you can buy the first 3 stages? Either way sounds do-able to me.
Enjoy your build
Regards
Gray
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My tips are as follows. set up your work bench and your painting area as far away from each other as possible to keep dust away as much as possible. If you have space a separate assembly are in the middle is ideal if you can literally be in the middle to allow you to work either side without having to handle and turn the model thats perfect, most of us don't have the space for that, obviously once you doing rigging wth masts and spars sticking out at all angles the more space and less handling the better! group your tools to the relevant part of the workshop so you don't spend half your modelling time walking about for things. if you cannot get wifi you can download the instruction files onto a pen drive and use your set up computer in the workshop, or put it on a laptop and take that with you. don't forget some background noise, I have a full on hifi and can play dads through my computer Jase “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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