Show us your Working Place/LEGO room

[Sariel]

My working place is rather tiny, but now you can visit it on the video:

[camaudio]

greetings fellow tanker

[TinkerBrick]

@ Sariel

I wouldn't call this tiny...

[Sariel]

Well, compared to some of the folks here who have whole garages at their diposal...

[AlmightyArjen]

I need to invest in small boxes to store all the different bricks. I have now 10 middle sized boxes with everything and I'm always losing time with searching the right parts. I like the way Sariel has organized it!

[rm8]

My working place is rather tiny, but now you can visit it on the video:

Good stock:). Is it your bedroom also, or just lego-PC-room?

P.s.Video does not include hamster. My son will be dissappointed.

Edited December 19, 2013 by rm8

[Sariel]

It's a Lego/PC room with a bed :) It's a small apartment and there's a single large room, with hamsters sitting in the kitchen. All their lives are about food, so it actually makes sense ;)

[NevynPA]

We're just re-arranging and getting set up. I have a glass-top L-shape desk that is going to be my work area. I haven't finished re-assembling the L, but being glass, I can put instructions down on the keyboard drawer so that they're not in the way when using the top of the desk!

[Lost_In_Noise]

Genious. Now that's one complex MOC you're making

Edited December 20, 2013 by Lost_In_Noise

[NevynPA]

Yeah, well...I want to see what's left over after I have 8868 and 8880 assembled. To be honest, after those two are built my Technic selection is very meager. I've got a couple MOC things I want to put a go at, but the LEGO fairy seems to skip visiting my house while the bill fairy is pulling double shifts...

[Foggy]

@Sariel it's amazing the amount of pieces that you have! Looking at your creations I was wondering how many parts you should own and now I had a taste of them :) Is it possibile to know how many technic sets do you have? Do the majority of your parts come from bricklink or what else?

Big compliments again for all! Cheers

[Sariel]

Hi. I don't have that many pieces actually, probably well under 100,000. I don't have many sets either since I rarely buy any, I mostly shop for individual pieces - probably no more than 40, maybe 50. Yes, most of these come from Bricklink.

I'm not really a collector, I simply buy the pieces I need for some project, and only as few as possible (since more pieces = complicated storage). I know there's a lot of people out there with collections easily 10 times the size of mine, and some of them don't even bother with MOCs. I recall seeing some SW fan who owned over a hundred sets and just kept them around assembled, even several assembled copies of the same set. Especially in US there are AFOLs with hefty budgets and a market with cheap sets - like the Seattle folks who have built 200,000-pieces Rivendell or 400,000-pieces Hogwarts. That means a single project several times larger than my entire collection - I could never afford it in my whole life.

[TinkerBrick]

Here is my building place. It is actually our desk in the living room. I have most parts (the studless ones) stored in these four sorting storage. I plan to sort and store my studded parts as well.

[Paul B Technic]

Looking very good, I love the iPad holder :)

[Alasdair Ryan]

Very nice set up tinkerbrick.

Here is a picture of my mess Glasgow...on the floor.

[TinkerBrick]

The iPad holder is really useful. Fits portrait and landscape mode with adjustable tilt angle. And it's free, just "steel" a few duplo bricks from your kids (who btw love to tear it apart only for me having to reassemble it.

@Alasdair: As long as your happy while building... This was the way I was building as a kid. A hugh pile of unsorted bricks on the floor and scratching through the pile every seconds while hunting for one of a total of 3 of those decorated 1x1plates or half pin. I think I traumatized my parents with that noise. ;-)

[Alasdair Ryan]

@Alasdair: As long as your happy while building... This was the way I was building as a kid. A hugh pile of unsorted bricks on the floor and scratching through the pile every seconds while hunting for one of a total of 3 of those decorated 1x1plates or half pin. I think I traumatized my parents with that noise. ;-)

You can see my other collection (proper) earlier on in this topic.

I guess I can say that I am one of those lucky guys that has two collections.

Edited January 22, 2014 by Alasdair Ryan

[Lipko]

My setup is pretty much the same as Alasdair's. But usually only one MOC can be kept built if I'm building something (if that MOC is not red).

[JGW3000]

I started using these fold-up paper boxes, inside of cardboard fold-up flats, for sorting parts for builds. For WIP, works great, as I can put the lid on and move the box out of the way, to make room for other projects. Both the cardboard flats and the fold-ups are very inexpensive.

Bulk parts are stored either in inconvenient IKEA-brand food storage containers or inconvenient small plastic cabinet, again with the fold-up boxes acting as trays. I am going to Home Depot sometime soon to look for a better solution.

Edited January 24, 2014 by JGW3000

[TinkerBrick]

I've started that way as well. Cutlery trays (from a probably fairly unknown blue and yellow coloured Swedish furniture store) work great for building new set as well.

Then i organized my parts in small boxes with hinged lids (could be found in the kids section). But i was annoyed by the two dimensional layout as it required far to much real estate on my desk.

So i went for the drawers magazines seen in post #88. These work great. Building is much more comfortable and the can be sowed away within seconds.

[Polo-Freak]

On the Floor

[AlmightyArjen]

Just got some more "professional" storage. Before I used cardboard boxes...

[Detzit]

Here is my working area.

I'm new to this forum. I hope the picture shows.

I use sorting boxes. Some with hinged covers that i take out.

When the table is needed it's easy to close all the boxes and stow away.

Tires and some of the lot of pins I have are kept out of view.

I don't have a lot of parts.

When the Unimog came out I decided that instead of buying the set, I would bricklink just the parts I needed.

It's been like that for the last couple of years. This way I keep the parts to a minimum.

I also find quite interesting to find alternative building solutions when I don't have some parts (as 8070 and 8285 above).

Best

[Jim]

Hi Detzit,

Welcome to EB!

Can you show a closeup of the 8070 rims?

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Edit: I have created a new topic for the rims

http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=93676

[Paul B Technic]

The latest photos of my building desk.