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I don't know about you guys, but I used to be organized with my minis. Had them in order. In a case. But time goes by, and minis become more common. The majority of my room is tidy, except for my placeless warhammer models just lying about, waiting to be painted or played.
From here, I can look round my room and see..
2 Trygons and a Fex on my PC desk
Various Lizardmen scattered around my painting desk
Some Ultramarines on a chair
Space wolves piled on a shelf, with Sergeant Telion beside the pile
A dreadnought on my pillow (WTF)
A Lictor on top of 3 Killa Kanz by a TV

What about you guys?

I have a few dedicated display cases, to show off my rare and best painted models. Unpainted models are still in thier packaging. The rest are in thier army transport bags, kept in acool dry place.

They are to exspensive, to have em banging around. Just my opinion.

My painted stuff is generally all safely tucked away in cases all around my room. My painting desk is a nightmare and has models from three different armies on it, in varying states of assembly and painting. Heaps of bits sit between paint pots and my desk is a real mess. I'm pretty decent at storing most of my stuff out of sight though, so my room doesn't look like the stockroom of a gamestore.

In my room i can spot a couple berzerkers on my desk along with a obliterator and a noise marine , 2 Rhinos a land raider and a defiler on my shelf along with high elves .

The rest is in ma' case

I have a windowsile full of Lizardmen and Highelves, then my pc desk is covered in eldar and some more high elves, then i have 3 selves with books on with the figures stood on top of the books and arms and bits lying around as well. The i have an etire cuboard full of warhammer thats being randomly placed in and a couple of draws filled with random paints and books. i even have some ork trukks just lying round on the floor.

I have a display case that holds most of my stuff. A lot of unpainted stuff is on the book case at the moment though, and my flock/PVA and such sits on top of a (non-working!) radiator. And there's some stuff next to the sofa since I paint there. And cases everywhere.

I need a bigger flat...

I found a leman russ in my bed, 3 orks in my aviary and there is about 60 Wargames Factory Shock Troops arranged in their relative squads on my computer desk, Not to mention their armour support and the window sill behind me

I have the vast majority of my figs in my upstairs gaming closet on shelves. But as I look around I can see only 3 SW figs and the changeling that are currently being worked on sitting out so my wife and I can do some painting later on today.

I'm terrible now,

I've got a my Super heavy Cobra and FW bloodthirster balanced ontop of a bookshelf.

All my tyranids ontop of the wardrobe.

All my warmachine on a food tray on the floor.

Hordes of stuff on my computer desk.

All my Dice and various daemons over the window seat. Lord of change by the cooker.

Fateweaver is ontop of the DVD player. 20 Cans of spray paint on the window ledge.

A carrier bag with a couple of unassebled Tombstalkers in it hanging of the kitchen door.

A pint glass with lots of unpainted Bloodletters in it sitting on the dinner table. Along with various paints,brushes and mixing pots..

A librarian terminator in the glovebox and 7 full carry cases in the boot of the car.

Oh and a very frustraded girlfriend for some reason

I've got all my sprues piled on a bookshelf at hand, and what's in use on a shelf I've made for my desk, since that desk is used for painting, drawing and everything else.

Seeing as I live in a 13'X12' dorm room, I can't afford to leave my minis out. I have my army case that contains most of my guys that hides in my closet. I have a small plastic bin that holds my WIP guys, which usually resides on my desk, dresser top, bed, where ever I have room.

I also have a tool box which holds everything 40K related which isn't models. Paint, brushes, xacto knives, glue, other assorted sundries. Between my tool box and small plastic WIP box, they take up my entire desk, so I can't leave them out.

One finished HWT, one in progress, a box of sprues and an organiser box of bits.

Everything else is cased.

I'm slightly compulsive.

Other than my Dark Eldar which is out on a shelf, everything is boxed up, but a couple of weeks ago the unpaitned stuff was evferywhere. I spent the other night spraying 37 sprues (and then another 5 later) before sniping all the items off and putting them in zip-lock bags and boxing them up in case I need to ship them back to the UK shortly. It's pretty tidy now!

Scott-S6 wrote:One finished HWT, one in progress, a box of sprues and an organiser box of bits.

Everything else is cased.

I'm slightly compulsive.

This is the real question here. Are you OCD or not?

As for me, I'm slightly OCD. So my mins are in cases and my paint desk is always clean.

I have shelves with drawers for my stuff.

Completed space marines, orks, works in progress, and modeling supplies all have their locations. Plus shelves for terrain and gaming books. On my workstation is the current miniatures I'm working on.

Non painted - stick in box, slide under bed. Or stick in box in garage. Easy.

Painted stuff... No idea.

I have them set out in a heroic formation on top of a cabnet freezer.

To my immediate right, a Necron Lord of the Shroudweaver Warcell is working with some of my normal Necrons to battle against some various parts of a Chaos Dreadnaught and a lone Chaos Termie. To the left, a Monolith has just dropped off a Lord in front of 4 Nurgle Bikers, a Chaos Vindi, and Nurgle Rhino. Tau Gun Drones and Kroot are flanking from the rear.

I live in a small dorm room where I have weekly inspections. Any models that are out are organized neatly by game and race along some shelving at the back of the desk. Everything else goes into boxes and cases as need be. Very neat and tidy only because I have to, otherwise it would be a disaster of random stuff everywhere.

All the CSM on parade formation on my chest of drawers (I like lining them all up , while the purple Black Reach marines are hidden in the case, as far out of sight as possible. Those that haven't been butchered for parts that is, they get put in the hobby box of doom.
It's gonna get worse once i start IG though...

Most of mine are scattered throught the house, probably placed there to 'guard' something. However, my blood angels are all neatly placed on my table, waiting to be painted.

Sidenote: The Dread on your pillow is WTF, how did it get there? What were you doing with it!

Most of my models are in cases, but those who don't yet have a home are lying around on my desk, where I can ogle at them all day.

I like to display my models all over my shelves and dresser at home, but the look of horror on my opponents face as I dump my models from unprotected cardboard boxes on to the table when I play tells me I might be on the messy side with transport. Of course when you gotta get a ork army into a backpack, foam and organization needs to go out the window.

Yeah. I'm really messy too. I usually save shipping boxes and just throw all kinds of junk in them. Looking inside a random box on the floor, I've found..

fifteen or so random guants, some LOTR crap, a bag of eldar bits, 25 or so 2nd edition plague marines I have no will to paint, OOP obliterators.... oh, and a bag of bases. I have like four of these things too




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yournamehere wrote:I like to display my models all over my shelves and dresser at home, but the look of horror on my opponents face as I dump my models from unprotected cardboard boxes on to the table when I play tells me I might be on the messy side with transport. Of course when you gotta get a ork army into a backpack, foam and organization needs to go out the window.

Sort of the same here too My one bookshelf is literally covered in land raiders and junk. I usually just throw everything into empty battleforce boxes when I have to go somewhere.