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"Work with your own hands … that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing" -- I Thess. 4:11b-12

My workshop began at my Dad's place in 12' x 24' portion of his three car detached garage (one of several of my Dad's out building. In middle and high school it had housed my HO gauge layout--heated in the winter, but hot and humid as a Georgia swamp in the summer. After my wife and I were married, the shop occupied a good portion of our rental house in Kingsport, Tennessee. Since moving back to Knoxville in 2001, I was forced back into Dad's "lower garage" as we call it while the wife and I lived in an apartment--this is where many of the Gauge 3 freight cars were built. But in 2003 we moved into a rental house which we bought in 2005. I began working on the detached garage (pictured at left) which at that point was just the shell of a building, with exposed stud walls, no insulation or separate electrical service. That's all changed now. And after two years of on again, off again work, the Dave's Workshop is 575 square feet of model building comfort. My thanks to Don Niday, Seth Rosenberger, Kaleb White and Roger Olsen, friends who helped make the vision a reality