New paint shop

Kyle DeHart
Got the trash and old building materials hauled away. Vacuumed it out and cleaned everything. Hung up some old leftover peg board and drywall and it's starting to look like a useable space. Will hang some lights up next and get a spray booth installed. Then perhaps I can add airbrushing to my repertoire.

bossy122
Onward and upward!

bughunter
You will love airbrushing! That is for me a big fun part of the hobby.

Jv
Wow that will be more room the many here have
Looking great already

Spanjaard
wow

Kyle DeHart
Thanks all. Bughunter, I sure hope I love it. I thought this building presented a good opportunity to have the space to learn some more skills. I can fit a good sized spray booth on the workbench directly in front of a window for the vent and there is a shelf under the bench I can use for the compressor. Exposed beams overhead should make hanging a few more lights easy enough. Then it'll be just practice and experimenting.

Skyhiker
What a great space for a studio.

Kyle DeHart
Fortunate to have it Skywalker!

Bob Hall
Nice, I need a place to hide from my wife too ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

😎 🫘!

Kyle DeHart
😂 you've uncovered my plot Bob!! Fortunately she supports my addiction, I mean hobby. 😂😂

John Hughes
Would it not be easier move the wife out there?

Rui S
I'm sure that when you start airbrushing, you will not want anything else.
With that amount of space who needs a spray booth 😄
Enjoy it 😉

Jv
I have a feeling your vife helped you clear out this space
Its great to see that she seports what you do
In the time I have followed you you have gone fare
Now I think your builds will have another boost
Fantastic vife
And Fantastic new space for a new beginning
Maybe one day we will see a build from your vife

Kyle DeHart
John, good point. And that'll give me even more room for my stash. 😂

Rui Thank you!

Jv, you are 100% correct. She helped every step of the way. And she's always supportive of the my hobby. I am very lucky. I've tried to get her into a build herself but no luck yet

Jv
I not jealous of your stash but I think we all are of your vifes seport in what you do
Behind any great man is a great woman

Bob Hall
I've tried justifying it to my wife, but arguing with stubborn Russian woman I found puts me on the losing side more than once, between my Mustangs, model kits, baseball cards, Cold War memorabilia and guns, I just found it's easier to just to collect sooooooo much stuff she doesn't know what old and what's recently added (yet to find a way to sneak in another Mustang though) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kyle DeHart
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think I get away with a lot by using the same strategy. She isn't a model builder, or very interested in guns. So those I can buy more of and sneak past the radar. Because she doesn't know what I've got. However If I drug home another square body Chevy pickup or a muscle car project I think she might flip. Good luck with another Mustang, Bob.

Jv, you're right of course. I couldn't do it without her.

Jv
Yes I agree do a clean up say you sold a few kits put a gun to a kid in the hood
Sale a kit or 2 and she won't even notice 20 or 30 kits
Kyle told me

Jv
So now I don't think it my fault
That vife of kyle I think inspirared me to

Kyle DeHart
New lights hung and the paint booth was delivered today. Got that set up. Just need to get to the store (when it's not -30 windchill) and get a vent hose and set that up. Almost ready to do some work out here. I am looking forward to it.

Jv
Already looking like a great place

bossy122
30 below is why you have Amazon bring some vent hose to you! Or the USPS, if you have more time.

Villiers de Vos
A very nice space.

Lex Jassies
Well that's really a transformation. I think you have room enough to build a 1:1 Chevy 🙂

Treehugger
Having a deep work bench is nice especially if you also use an air extractor, because the extractor itself will take up a lot of the depth of the space. Nice to see proper ceiling lighting as well for the room.

I sort of dream of having a workspace with no less than 5 IKEA work tables. 🙂 For rotating projects.

Kyle DeHart
Jv, thanks.

Bob, I'm steaming your meme.

Bossy, I'm on that already. Lol!

Villiers, thanks!

Lex, the 1:1 Chevy is parked out in the big barn out back. 😂😂

Treehugger I'm really fortunate to have this sort of space and I wanted it lit up as well as I possibly could. Before this it felt as if I was painting in a bat cave.

And the more workbench space you can have the better.

Spanjaard
A dream modelling place, getting better and better

Kyle DeHart
Thanks Spanjaard!

Alberto
Looks great, lucky you!

Kyle DeHart
Thanks Alberto! Very lucky indeed.

Bozzer
That's a huge space, mate! Set aside, an area, for drying. My only concern is dust dropping on your new paint jobs, so get yourself a large clear tub and use that to put over your fresh paint, while it dries. One thing I've found, is my booth also sucks in other things, from outside. For example cat hairs, off my clothes, and fabric fibres. We've all fell victim to it, at some point, and it's bloody frustrating! Keep safe over there dude, in that storm. Hopefully things will warm up, next week?

Kyle DeHart
Thanks Bozzer! I already go the clear tub route because of pets and our house is an 1870 farmhouse. There's 150 odd years of dust accumulation anywhere I go. As far as the storm goes we've lost power once, had the kitchen sink freeze despite being dripped and the washer. Got space heaters going in crawl spaces to try to combat that. Next week should be better. Hope everyone has a great holiday season!

Bozzer
Well Christmas is here and we have rain! That's the perfect excuse for some cave time 🙂 Merry Christmas to you and everyone else. Go easy on the Eggnog 😉

Kyle DeHart
Much eggnog has already been consumed because bourbon helps make everything better. 😂 pipes are unfrozen too. Merry Christmas!!

Jarrett
I'm thinking about a she she'd also. Just awesome!

Bill Newcomer
Nice shed. I built a 10'x12' metal shed last summer. It will never be used for painting due to ZERO climate control. Like Bozzer, I would be concerned about dust getting in your paint. I recommend you get a hygrometer/thermometer to leave in the space. That way you know in advance if the temperature is in range and if the humidity is below 50%. It will save you the aggravation of your glossy paint jobs from "blushing" (assuming you are solvent based paint).

Something like this:
amazon.com/Musicera-..aps%2C148&sr=1-4

Kyle DeHart
Indeed Bill, I already have one of those, possibly that exact one. From my old space. I put it in my spray booth so I know exactly where I'm at where I'm painting. My old painting space was not climate controlled either, and dust and pet hair has always been an issue. Just recently sprayed my first couple of things out in the new paint space. The paint is stored on climate control so it is warm. Space heater going on the shop meant I was about 62 degrees F and 48% humidity when I sprayed. Everything laid down really nice. Body gets painted and then sealed in a tote to combat the dust. I have had to do that anyway, so nothing new there. It then gets carried inside to dry in the warmth. Not ideal, but better than my old situation. That was a body clear coated and a body put into primer and both have turned out well.

Jarrett
I hate pet hair. Thank you and I'll keep these ideas/products in mind when setting up my area.

Kyle DeHart
Jarrett, every single build I've ever done has had pet hair. Lol. I just think of it as a signature now.

Jarrett
Yeah, we say our clothes or food would not be complete without a white hair where our dog is white lol.

Bozzer
And women! Don't forget those pesky women? They shed hair, like a bear flicks fleas! If I can't solve the issue, with my next cave, I'm going full Chemical Warfare Suit, in the cave, with a Decon area, before you get in the bugger! Lol, naked painting in a hairnet, if I can't solve the issue!

Kyle DeHart
🤣🤣🤣 My wife has hair clear to the bottom of her back. If I get one of those in my paint it would be wrapped around the model 4 times.

Jarrett
Kyle and Bozzer thank you for the funnies and many thanks the laughter. Anything I can help you all with let me know, parts and or a kit if I have multiples. Take care gents.

Kyle DeHart
You as well Jarrett!!

Bill Newcomer
I know about the hair thing. We actually lock up our cat IN my hobby room. She likes to play with my stuff, steal my parts and other mischief. Heck, I even have bite marks in my paint booth!

Kyle DeHart
😂😂😂 I do most of my building out in the open at the dining room table. The wife likes for me to be hanging around, you know, I'm case she needs something and doesn't want to get up. 🤣 Anything I'm working on gets put into a hutch so it doesn't get devoured by a cat.

Kyle DeHart
Added some photos of my process. And my thermometer doohickey that tells me if I can paint or not. One photo of the largely completed setup showing the new air compressor and location and a couple of my painting process. Stuff moves from the climate monitored painting area directly into the tote after painting. I've been doing this for awhile because where I used to paint was very dusty and this new area is very dusty. But it works for me.

Bill Newcomer
I am glad it is working out for you. If I had the privilege of such a space I would spend all summer decking it out. Climate control and all.

Bozzer
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of Kyle's Kut and Chop Shop? I'm also still very envious of the space. I think my new place is going to be 10' x 10' with a U shaped bench. Underneath storage, display shelving down one side, paint booth and 3D printer at the end, and work area on the opposite side. My only issue is natural light, which will come from a window or windows, on the very opposite end of the spray booth. But I figured that 4 x 2' x 2' LED panel lights, would be more than adequate for lighting up the space. I may install a fan this time though, to help with the crazy summers that we've been having recently? Aircon isn't really an option yet, because that would require it's own dedicated supply, and that creates a whole new problem. But, where there's a will 😉

Kyle DeHart
Indeed Bill, fully decking it out with insulation and climate control and all would be the ultimate goal. Bozzer that sounds like it would be a very nice work space. This remains just a hobby and one I already spend far too much on. 😂. The other issue is electrical, as this building runs off just one breaker from the main panel. Ideal I'd also get this it's own electrical supply and panel and then I'd really be cooking with gas. But financially, a project like finishing this building out and running a new box to it aren't feasible right now. Works well for what I need it for. Maybe I will update it more in future.

Jv
Great space already now and you have the rest of your life to change things as you like
Let's see one day you wife may come out there and hang out whed you there

Bozzer
Kyle, simply by replacing the lights with Led fittings, you will be reducing the load on that circuit. Those old fittings have a ballast inside, that eats electric. If you can send me a picture of the fusebox and tell me what cable is supplying it, I can tell you what you can safely draw from it? No point having an electrician on your posts, if you can't ask for some information? 😉

Kyle DeHart
Ah an electrician! So is my father-in-law. I had a talk with him while I was working on this project. Everything is ran off of one 15 amp circuit breaker on the main panel. So we do have some loss as the cable must needs travel from the main panel outside and to this building. All lights were changed out to LEDs to draw the least amount of power. Runs my fan and air compressor without issue at all.

Bozzer
15A is enough for now. If you get all your electrical apparatus running at once and ask him to check the draw with his ammeter, that will give you a better indicator of how close to the 15A, you are. Try to avoid things like electric heaters and coffee machines, etc and you should be ok. I ran a big cable from the house, to my first outbuilding, then came from there, to my cave. The new cave is gonna be right next to that building, so I'll come from there again. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Jarrett
When you say cave Bozzer, you mean basement or you are actually creating underground living quarters? I would love a huge bunker cave thing like Batman lol. Anyways' awesome stuff. I'll be building out three rooms in my basement this year. Maybe a shed like this if I get the money or clearance by the wife lol. Anyways again cheers and happy building gents!

Bozzer
Lol Jarrett, it's my Mancave. It's a purpose built outbuilding, just for my hobby. I've outgrown my first one. I build at the end of my English garden, amongst my Pear, Apple and Plum trees. No cats or kids allowed 😉

Kyle DeHart
A wonderful. A no cat space. I wouldn't know what to do. Lol

Jarrett
Those cats are sneaky lol. I think that's the best for me as well, a separate outbuilding. I just do not have the scenery you have which sound very relaxing.

Lex Jassies
My cat keeps me company during my model building sessions most of the time.
If he breaks something I withhold his pocket money 😉

Kyle DeHart
Yes Lex, the company is nice and normally the only thing mine will destroy is maybe squashing a box top or something.

Roland, thank you. I really didn't like the look of any of those plastic ones you see. This spray booth is decidedly not cheap. However, I build enough that I wanted something permanent and not to have to worry about, so the cost was justified to me.

Philippe EVE
👍👍👍🙂 for your laboratory!

Kyle DeHart
Thank you!! It has been working out well

Philippe EVE
I only use 5m2..!😥😉

Alexander Grivonev
Holy bananas, so much space. I am so jealous 😭 😄

Kyle DeHart
It is a blessing to have available to me. I am very fortunate and thankful. No doubt it's opened up many more building possibilities.

Alexander Grivonev
I've already started setting the workplace up in my mind, workstation here, airbrush station there, photo corner, storage area...😄

Kyle DeHart
Indeed. I work under the left window you see and then clearly you can see my airbrush setup on the right. You go to corner. Now there is an idea worth exploring!!

Bozzer
Maybe it's time for a few update pics, now you're back in the flow?

Kyle DeHart
Bozzer you'd never want to see it now. I have spare parts and kits stacked up along the work bench. 2 toolboxes flanking my work area to the left of my spray booth. I like to be surrounded by my work if at all possible. And a couple display cabinets taking up room. I organize every once in awhile but it never lasts. 🤣

Bozzer
I'm the same mate. I cleared a space for the Mrs, and had a general tidy up. Now I can't find bugger all, I've got part built kits all over the place, and my resin printer just decided to get a hole in the FEP sheet, and piss neat resin all over the place! Is it Friday the 13th???

Jennifer Franklin
That is a nice space for doing modeling work.

Bob Hall
Well, I have 2000 kits I'm look to sell, so if you got space you need to fill, hit me up 🤙 !

Kyle DeHart
Sounds about right Bozzer. 1 step forward and two back always!!

Thank you Jennifer!!

Bob, 2000 kits wow!! No doubt there are some things in there I'm missing from my collection but I don't have very much free space at all!!

bossy122
I see some room in the rafters ; )

Kyle DeHart
Good idea bossy!! That would also make it easier to heat the area around my paint booth if I lower the ceiling there a bit. Ha!!

bossy122
Where there's a will, there's a way!