Where do you store your minis when you're not transporting or using?

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**insaniak**

Display case (old shop fitting) for finished stuff or stuff that I am at least theoretically working on... Storage boxes downstairs for everything else.

**dogquixote**

Infantry goes in clean egg cartons, and those go in a rubber bin. Bigger models are currently in a cabinet, but with plans to move them to foam-lined and partitioned box.

**Rybrook**

I have a display case, although I chose without dust protection because one of the glass sides got broken and needs replacing

**chromedog**

Stormatious wrote:

What, so if 40k dies you don't want to keep your models for display?

I stopped playing 40k in 2013. Not that I ever displayed them anyway. I didn't have any cabinets back then, only the shed.
The armies were sold off piecemeal until I had only those models that got me into those armies remaining. That case now lives in the shed.
The current cupboard holds cases and trays and doesn't have glass doors anyway. It's a practical thing. My hobbies are my release, my decompression time.
Not something I'm passionate about.

**dreadblade**

From https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/771300.page

Brother Castor wrote:
I've not been back in the game long, so right now I currently have everything securely stored in a Citadel Skirmish Case and an 11L Really Useful Box:

That's an 800 point army, rulebooks, gaming accessories and First Strike

**DarkBlack**

The box I use to transport them, plastic lined with magnetic sheet.
I'm more concerned about leaving them in direct sunlight than dust.

**Rybrook**

I also have one of these babies.

Single layer egg foam, will happily hold 30 or so 25mm based minis or a full 2000pt
2nd ed army

**dreadblade**

DarkBlack wrote:
I'm more concerned about leaving them in direct sunlight than dust.

Yeah it probably wouldn't do either the books or the miniatures any good. The cases I posted above live in a drawer...

**Flinty**

I've just sorted a storage solution for my Blackstone fortress set. I had originally thought I'd just use a self adhesive magnetic sheet, but I found it didn't hold to the base magnets very well.

Also for BSF the different bad guys come in groups and taking them all out of the box individually would take ages. So I just cut up some steel angle as squad holders. I can get 8 25mm base guys across the box or 6 or 7 32mms.

The base magnets stick to the steel much better than the sheet and the surface area of the steel makes a better hold on the mag sheet.

I might sort some lit the handles to Make it easier to get the angles out.

Next step though is to sort a suspended tray above to hold the rules and cardstock stuff.

**StormX**

insaniak wrote:
Display case (old shop fitting) for finished stuff or stuff that I am at least theoretically working on... Storage boxes downstairs for everything else.

NICE!. That's perfect. I shall aim for that type of display.