where is your favorite place to build structures for your layout?

While I have a workbench, kit built from a big box store, in my garage, it is cluttered

with auto related tools and parts, so, for models, I use a small, drawered, supposedly antique,  cabinet that I inherited from my aunt, that she used in her kitchen.  It is like a desk, with room to roll your chair under.  The chair I use are the first ones I bought with my chrome dinette set (last I heard you had to go to Canada for those, nowadays) for my first house.  The two chairs are worn, but work well.  I have thought

about getting a real work bench that would accept a vise for the house, too, but this works, so..............

I like painting and building at the kitchen table too.  My wife also likes it, it brings my up from the basement - maybe she likes me after all!

My workshop doubles as my kitchen. My layout room doubles as a living room. My train display room doubles as my master bedroom, and the train storage rooms use to be my empty nester kid's bedrooms. I also have a layout in the furnace room. Yea, as you have guessed, I am single.

Paul Goodness

Breakfast room table works for us right now. We have one of Dennis Brennan's roundhouses to start soon and Laidoffsick led the way on doing that in the dining room.

Somehow that isn't being accepted that well here. "This is not California."

Mid-June to mid August is boat weather at Hatteras and we work on structures on the salon table. The back of the Suburban holds a couple of boxes of necessary stuff.

Basement workshop.....that's why it exists - a place to build & repair stuff full of power and several generations of hand tools.

I use my workbench most of the time, but sometimes it gets too cluttered; so if that happens, I'll just use places on my layout that have no scenery yet or places with scenery that I haven't glued down yet...

Workbench in train room.

For some reason this area, a stand-up application point, seems to get a lot of work.  Near the layout, warm, maybe the best lighting.  Garage workshop area, the car needs to be removed, any work done has to be moved, so that the car can be placed back, at the end of the day.  Also requires, turning the heat on in the garage. Pictured is a walk-away area, return tomorrow.

Garage/work shop still gets a lot of uses.

I sometimes do really small projects - such as recently disassembling/repainting the interior/re-assembling a diecast 1:43 car, at the desk in my study, but I build all structures, bridges, etc., on my workbench. it's the only place with the room and access to all the tools. 

My workbench is usually covered with tools left there from my last few projects, half finished projects, scraps of wood that are too small to use but too big to throw away, etc.  So I end up using my table saw as a workbench.  I cover it with cardboard and/or plastic and/or paper sheeting to protect the cast iron surface.  Sometimes I lay an old laminated desktop on it and use it as glue up table for woodworking projects.

NO matter where I build kits I don't enjoy it. Never turns out the way I want, I get glue where it doesn't belong, painting is just time consuming and a mess, never square or parallel, and I always forget to install something. So I try to avoid this. Working, repairing,building or anything on my trains, takes a lot of effort. Heck just typing this message as been 15 minutes. I hate computers.

Clem k

one way or another they all wind up on the workbench

Usually on the layout but sometimes at the dinner table.

It starts on the couch with inspection and trail fits.

As soon as the coffee table is at real risk, its off to clear a spot on a bench.

I do most of my modeling on an unfinished section of the railroad. Once in a while I use a table on the patio. I do all my painting on saw horses in the backyard.