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After struggling with my six foot square shed as a tank workshop (something it was never meant to be in the first place!), freezing my bits off in the winter and seeing a work colleagues workshop I decided the time had come for some action!!! I contracted the skills of our resident SE mechanical engineer, young Howard, who has a knack of being able to visualise and design all in one go. We decided to go for a full width building, with a sliding door at the rear for tank access. Sliding so that it doesn't take any room up once opened like an opening door would. A local firm made the building and erected it and we then took it from there. |
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| Here's a view from the bedroom window, it kinda fills the garden! | Inside we see the gap where the sliding door will fit. You can see the twin outward opening back gates to enable me to get 1/4 scale tanks in and out (hopefully!) | On the opposite side is the door which leads out to the garden path with the narrow workbench... | ...which you can see better in this view. My vice, pillar drill, band saw (donated by Howard) and grinder will sit on here. | This is where my big work bench will go. You can see the sliding door leaning up against the wall, it weighs a ton! |
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| These next few views show the walls and ceiling lined, insulated and the lights up. Also the sliding door is mounted and closed in this picture... | ...and open in this view revealing the back gates. | Looking at the right hand end, this area will be a tank park! | We temporarily removed the narrow bench to line and insulate the walls. | This is the main bench area with four sockets for the bench and two up high where the shelf will go for all my power supplies. |
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| Now we have some shelves and drawers up on the wall above where the bench will go. Power supplies all plumbed in as well. | Most important a phone for ringing indoors ordering teas and coffees. Yeah right, dream on! | This is the travelling crane/hoist/whatever. Designed primarily for removing quarter scale tank turrets, should I ever have the need... | And here's an example of it in action. This may only be a half track but it is extraordinarily heavy. Howard has proved the strength of the hoist by hanging off it, all six stone of him!!! | One of my little assistants... |
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| ...and here's the other! That laptop must be warm. You can see how people claim the pet bid for things on Ebay!!! | One of the first projects is Johnny's Sturmtiger which is gradually being upgraded to 24v and 4QD speed controllers. The bench can be seen in the background. | Yes I know it's snowy but look how small my old shed was! Compare this with the first picture on this page :-O | ||