Andre, As someone that has been known to paint a thing or 3, I say go BIG. Admittedly, I may have gone to the extreme in that respect. My paint booth is 4' x 4' x 4'. It surely made it easy to make. I used the white Melamine coated chipboard.
My blast booth is bigger then most would probably get for modeling purposes. Brian Jackson may comment on that point. But when you are holding an O Scale coach in one hand and trying to blast it with the other, you really need to have the booth be at least 3 times larger then the largest conceivable item you are going to be working on. I applied that same concept to designing my paint booth, but humping those heavy sheets around made me not want to do excessive cutting so the 4' cube idea became really appealing. I sit in a high bar stool like chair. I never hit my elbows or am hunched over trying to peek in some little shoebox trying to see what just got painted. I am more then free 'to move about the cabin". The model never bonks the paint booth disturbing the wet paint. I got 5 surplus Navy searchlights in there so lighting is not a problem. Well maybe not searchlights, but it is 3) 150W spotlights and 2) 2 feet long fluorescent fixtures. It can get a little hot though. But I do occasionally use the spotlights to help speed up setting the wet paint in some areas. It is currently also my home away from "home". Most of my work is done here in my apartment. But the heavy lifting stuff like blasting and painting is at my Pop's house. I have another resistance soldering unit there. There is some bad Mojo thing about painting a model that frequently happens. As soon as 1 molecule of paint leaves the airbrush and heads on a collision course towards the model, some detail part instantly falls off before your very eyes! I used to have to drive back here (only 2 miles away but still....) and fix it until I got the second soldering unit. Is it possible to get a utility shed? You can put in a space heater. It also removes all painting and fumes from the house. I am spinning 180 degrees to get back on modeling my K4 5495! Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Winner of the 2007 Josh Seltzer NASG Website Award Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
