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So I was at Ikea with the family unit today and lookie what I espied--the most perfect bits locker ever conceived! Feast your eyes on the sublime "helmer." For about 25 quid I have a place for all my extra torsos, arms, etc. The first picture is a battlewagon sprue. Just look how snug it is! It's as if the "helmer" was purpose built for sprue storage! What do we have in the second picture? Look! It's two boxes of ironbreakers nestled side by side! There are six such drawers! Amazing!




Gentle reader, get your ass to ikea and get your bits in order!

You store stuff on the sprue?

I have racks and racks of various sized jam jars filled with right arms, left arms, heads, weapons, torsos, legs, wheels, vehicle parts etc etc. Lots less space than buggering about with stuff on the sprue. Less breakages too I reckon, than storing stacks of sprues.

Wow thats actually nice, im sure my mum will get me one of these when she sees my room tomorrow..

Just to point out that Ikea is cheaply made gak. Their stuff looks nice though.

Some of it is but a lot of it is perfectly good stuff, especially at the price they sell.

I prefer to store my bits in small plastic containers. That way i can leave them around the house and lose them.

Also it's good for annoying wives.

my bits are in a ziplock bag.......i'm going to eventually transfer them to a tacklebox i came across

greenskin lynn wrote:my bits are in a ziplock bag.......i'm going to eventually transfer them to a tacklebox i came across

Mine too , each box sets bits are place in ziplocks and then into clear plastic shelves with wheels on the bottom

I just put the sprue into the boxes that they come in, but for the smaller ones they go into the larger boxes. All of them are currently in an AoBR box, 4e Space Marines Battle Force box and the Tau stuff I got recently is in it's 5e Battle Force box.

Lunahound, why do you change your avatar every hour or so?

I think it's every time the hour is divisible by 3.

Every hour would be too predictable

Kilkrazy wrote:Lunahound, why do you change your avatar every hour or so?

It wouldn't be a problem if Lunahound wouldn't have changed from her/his better Avatar. It was so much better IMO.

On topic, I don't store my bitz in drawers but that DOES look like it's made in GW standard. It WOULD be handy if I would have any room in my room. It's already crowded with every little piece of **** you can think of.

Kilkrazy wrote:Lunahound, why do you change your avatar every hour or so?

Nevermind that..love the Final Fantasy Tactics reference in the sig

Never mind the drawer cabinet, why the heck do you have a rocking horse?

My bitz box? A tackle box. Best investment I've ever made in this hobby. I've got at least fifty little compartments of varying sizes, and my tackle box wasn't even the biggest at the store I got it from.

I <3 my box.

Rico.

My bits are stored in something twice that size and about 3 leman russ boxes in over flow.

I have so many bits, I have a bits room. (And a ton of boxes packed away in the garage to boot.)

lord_blackfang wrote:Never mind the drawer cabinet, why the heck do you have a rocking horse?

You've never had it good unless you've done it on a rocking horse. By which i mean modeling.

i keep all my bitz in one massive chaotic box, and marval at the way every wargamers that sees it must spend at least 10 minites rumaging for no reason

diablarist wrote:i keep all my bitz in one massive chaotic box, and marval at the way every wargamers that sees it must spend at least 10 minites rumaging for no reason

LOL, QFT. My FLGS has a big bitz bin, and I can't help rummaging through the little baggies every time I'm there. You start rationalizing in your head why you need a dreadnought's foot and 6 night goblin torsos when it's in a little baggy for $2. Such a strange compulsion...

I couldn't fit even 10% of my bits collection in that cabinet!! I have a huge box just for my vehicle bits alone and a shelf dedicated to Guard bits. And then a corner of my room for pretty much everything else. I need a bits bunker.

My unbuilt Cities of Death stuff wouldn't even fit in there. It's a nifty cabinet... but it's tiny.

And size does matter.

I have all mine separated into plastic containers with labels......

I spend more time organizing than I do painting unfortunatly

Ridcully wrote:I prefer to store my bits in small plastic containers. That way i can leave them around the house and lose them.

You make it that far? I usually drop my bits on the thick shag carpeting first.