Sean Downing
Workbench
I'm lucky enough to be able to devote a whole spare room to my hobby. It's all mine, and that's good since I model just about everything WWII: armor, aircraft and figures. My main workbench is a computer workstation. I like the handy pullout shelf for tools and the extra workspace. You can also see that I use a lot of multi-level lazy-susans to keep stuff organized and off the benches.
I have a homemade spray booth made out of a plastic storage box (with another lazy-susan inside), blower and dryer hose. When I spray, I just flop the hose out the window. I have two Paache airbrushes, an H that I've used for 15 years and a newer VL. I graduated to a 5 gallon shop compressor after burning up a little Badger diaphragm compressor a few years ago. For airbrushing I use Floquil and Model Master paints. For hand brushing, I prefer Polyscale, Model Master Acrylic and oils for figures.
For gluing plastic together, I like Ambroid Proweld. It's a little slower than Tenax, but faster than Testors liquid cement. I use a little Squadron putty, but mostly I use Magic Sculpt for filling. It's an epoxy putty similar to Milliput, but not as sticky and a lot cheaper. I use a lot of it sculpting figures. It works like clay and you can smooth and shape it with a water moistened finger and paint brushes.
My favorite tool is probably the Flexi-file. It's good for sanding seams without making flats and it's great for cleaning up all the nooks and crannies in figures.
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