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I miss my old stash of cars. I cant remember if most of them went to Switzerland or Australia. This is the old hobby room....

Well, I'm not one to leave anything alone for too long lol. I decided it would be a great idea to empty out the hobby room, rewire it, add insulation, and drywall. wow, I sure wish I did this in the beginning! It took a uhaul truck to get all the stuff out if the room. You don't realize how many cars, kits, radios, parts bins, and general CRAP you have until you move it all on your own. It's been long couple days but the wiring is about done and I should be insulating tonight and drywalling tomorrow! Woot!

Bare walls, blank canvas!!

WHAT! No RC climate control system?Got keep those temps stable for those seet cars you be finding and building. DON

THUNDERSTRIKE1 wrote:WHAT! No RC climate control system?Got keep those temps stable for those seet cars you be finding and building. DON

Sure it does....insulation is the perfect climate control lol! In Oregon we have a handful of days over 100 degrees and a week or two of ice, so for me it's short sleeve all year around

looking good, would love ot stop by on ym way to washington hopefully this summer or before year is over

g/f gave me the 2 car garage for my hobby room. not as much peg board as you. but starting, course garage shares rc and my volks rod.

Everyone is welcome! It will take me a few weeks to get sorted but drywall is going up as we speak!

gomachv wrote:Everyone is welcome! It will take me a few weeks to get sorted but drywall is going up as we speak!

The wonderful world of dry wall. Looking good Jeff, I don't mind hanging the drywall, or even taping, but I sure do hate the mudding aspect of it. I wish we lived closer so I could lend a hand.......... you know, you mud, while I drink

I have determined that the mudding and sanding part should be left to someone in the know. I suck at it, and hate it. I'd gladly pay to have it done at this point. The last piece of steal is finally hung, the taping is started and sanding has begun. All out of order of course lol, but at least the light at the end of the tunnel is nearing. Of course, many times that light is a damn locomotive! Lol

The outlet and low voltage holes in the center are for my swing out monitor and pc under the table. I hate loose wires hanging.

I feel your pain. I did one wall in my house years ago. I still look at that d%#m joint every time I pass it. I hate drywall. Coming along nicely. Good luck!!

speaking about light... I'd avoid any fluoro tubes & halogens. High UV, fades/yellows your kitboxes like the sun.
Hard to notice & takes a few years but if you've got a kitbox that's never seen light to compare to, it's there.

I'm going LED or oldskool incandescent for wherever kitboxes live.

tamiya, that's good info there I had my mind set on led lighting due to the low power and brightness. Unfortunately the ones I spec'd out turned out too weak. I had just today decided to go back to fluorescent tubes but now after reading this I am changing my mind. I also blocked off my "skylight vents" as I didn't want them to bleach the cars and boxes but had never considered the lighting

Back to LED shopping

tamiya wrote:speaking about light... I'd avoid any fluoro tubes & halogens. High UV, fades/yellows your kitboxes like the sun.
Hard to notice & takes a few years but if you've got a kitbox that's never seen light to compare to, it's there.

I'm going LED or oldskool incandescent for wherever kitboxes live.

That's exactly right what has been said above, being a sparkie in commercial fit outs the proliferation of LED lights in the past 5 years has been incredible, the gathering pace of wich the technology has evolved and the ability of the fitting to mimic the lumen output of higher power fittings due to complex lighting reflectors is incredible. Just remember with LEDs you get what you pay for

I don't bother with fancy LED-specific fittings like for those hockey puck bulbs,
just conventional bulb sockets & put in a LED retrofit bulb not a CFL.

Don't go too cheap on LED bulbs, I find around $10ea is a price sweetspot.
Can find some yumcha bulbs for half that but often their electronics don't last a year.
No need to spend $60ea on Phillips; Osram are around $20-30ea for brandname.


Skylights are evil.

My 20yo house has upstairs bathroom with skylight, all the plastics degrade faster.
I've just replaced its 3rd dunny seat and the basin's waste outlet crumbled this yr too.
Identical toilet fittings in the dark downstairs has no such issues.

For little rooms I'm sticking with incandescent lighting... 100W 240V baby!!
I want the light (eyes getting old, reading fineprint on RC pron mags) + I want some heat!

Looking good Jeff -

We have the tiny electric heater going to dry the joint compound and within 10 minutes it was sweaty hot in the shed. It's going to be great working in here now, but it's going sloooooooooooow