How do you store your models?

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**Balance**

Bloodfrenzy187 wrote:
I keep my Necrons on a small shelf in my room and my Chaos Marines and Daemons on my painting desk on display in all of their glory.

I helped DP9 with these for GenCon a couple times. They're pretty nice display cases, actually, and reasonably sturdy. There is a light, I believe.

**Yuuichi_Trapspringer**

Copying this from another thread where we were talking storage as well:

For mass storage, I use hard trays from a jewelery supply chain. http://www.nilecorp.com/store-detail.asp?categoryID=Jewelry-Display-Trays-Inserts&subcategoryID=20021403&subcategory=10.+Utility+Tray+%28click+for+more+style%29&txtPicName=Jewelry_Utility_Tray.jpg&description=standard+plastic+stackable+tray%2C+standard+wood+tray I also have two soft sided cases and one large rolling aluminum case that fits those trays, and believe me, you can cram a TON of models/bits into each tray.

This is my hard case from Nile: http://www.nilecorp.com/products.asp?sku=862-7 and my soft cases are http://www.nilecorp.com/products.asp?sku=91-B2

My painted minis occupy the top shelf of my large bookcase (out of cat leaping height) or in one of my 4 army carrying cases. That said, I probably have more figures than 99.9% of Dakkanauts. If only I could stick to the paint schemes I've created for them for longer than 2-3 months...

**LeVeux**

I got this Ikea Klingsbo cabinet. Searched online, Ikea beat eveyone hands down.

£90 atm on their site. 5 shelves plus a magazine type rack on the bottom, plus you can put something on top. Ample height inside for my dakkajets (when they are done). Didn't go for the light kits.

The cabinet is great because it gives me the motivation to keep on adding to the army. Something that wanes when my stuff is stashed away in a case or box under the bed.

Rubbish mobile phone pic, but there are over 100 greenskins plus other bits here and I got loads of room to spare. Unpainted/ waiting to be built stuff is stashed in cases under my bed.

**ArbitorIan**

I don't keep anything on display. My minis are stored in KR Multicases (about 16 so far) which all slot onto a handy shelf unit in a cupboard....

**lokilokust**

Ikea bookcases (billy) with glass shelves and glass doors.

**oadie**

I like to be able to see my models, so I don't really separate storage and display, if I don't have to.

Initially, they just sat on a bookshelf. Eventually, I moved to plastic cases for increased storage and portability (I was moving around a bit, so I resigned myself to stashing them out of sight). Found one of the larger (2 foam stacks wide) GW figure cases on Ebay for a good price and snagged some plastic power tool cases from the curb, which I gutted to fit vehicles.

Now, I've got a Detolf in the living room with a few added shelves where most of my built (and painted, obviously, but that's a smaller proportion of the total models than I'd like...) stuff sits on display. Unbuilt sprues and blisters are stored in a plastic chest of drawers up in the "workshop" and WIP models sit on the workbench until they're finished and ready for the display cabinet.

**angel of ecstasy**

Eilif wrote:
Are you asking about display or storage?

I'm asking about storage. Something I can stash the stuff away in when I'm not using it. I'm not interested in display and neither is my girlfriend

And thank you everyone for excellent ideas. I love the pistol cases, but Jesus Christ they're expensive in Sweden.

I saw some mentions of soft cases in the thread. What do you use inside them for protection? Like foam or bubble wrap?

**Eilif**

I hear you on that one. My wife does not look kindly on figure displays taking up room in our living areas.

As for cushioning your minis, foam is probably the best material. If you don't have access to gun cases that come with eggshell foam as in my tutorial, you can just combine foam with whatever case you have access to. You can buy a roll of eggshell from the store. It's usually sold as a mattress pad. You just cut it to the size of whatever case (pistol, hardware, suitcase, tool, etc) you have.

Then you can cut the holes in it as in my tutorial, glue a piece of EVA craft foam (the dense foam) to the bottom and you have trays for your figures. If you make trays, then you can fit more figures per layer.

The fast way is just to cut layers of the eggshell foam and then put the minis on them, but you have to be more carefull when taking each layer out of the container, and you won't be able to fit as many figures.

**martin74**

My IG, minis in foam, and the tanks are all in a Christmas ornament style box. My orcs, they are bulk loose in a box. that is about 150 boyz, 9 kans, 1 metal dread, a trukk, wagon, and a few other odd minis. Malifaux, in a bag, with pluck foam.

**Denguin**

I plan on storing my guys in fish tanks. Ill make differant scene in multiple tanks ( forest, desert, urban)

I dont play the game i just make them for show

**ChiliPowderKeg**

My Tau hardly ever break so I just carry them all in a shoebox.

I'll have to plan on investing into something to hold the Chaos marines though as those odd metal parts and poorly glued fiddly bitz just love to fall off.

Otherwise anything left out will just sit on the kitchen counter

**-Loki-**

I keep mine in Battlefoam trays. Easy to store, protective, easy to slide into a case to take to a game.

**Leigen_Zero**

My unpainted/unfinished/waiting-to-be-redone models get shoved in various states of incompleteness into an assortment of different boxes, baggies, plastic containers etc.

My finished models, well they don't exist so they don't get stored anywhere

**Chancetragedy**

I have a relatively small army compared to some people on here and in my area. So I'm able to store all my stuff in a battlefoam shield bag, a GW figure case, and a dufflebag with a shoe boxed lined with foam. I'm able to fit these on the top shelf of a closet next to my work desk in my apartment for quick grab-ability and storage. Most of the time they sit in the "trunk" of my car.

All my paints, brushes, bits, glue, and miscellaneous gribbley bits are in the drawers of my desk.

**kitch102**

Until recently, in my gw army case, in the shed.

That won't be happening now after I took them out a week ago to find my incubi warped.

**IceRapture**

For storage I use an Ikea "Detolf" Cabinet (definitely recommend), similar but cheaper to the ones in GW stores, for anything worth looking at,
then just keep the troops and worse-looking models in their respective carrying cases and boxes.

For transporting I've got a Battlefoam bag that's been really good so far.