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While sitting here bored and ill and not painting!?!. Been thinking about cases, have priced up a KR solution and it isnt cheap, I want storage for the complete army plus anything else I plan to buy in the near future, and thats quite a lot of models plus 5 rhino chassis, 3 LR assault ram over 30 termies and over 100 troops. For KR thats a good few hundred worth in a rather large case, yes I could get two or cardboard ones to carry around what I need plus another case, thats another few quid on top.

I have priced up a few other cases, battlefoam is also up there in cost, the others feilheer or something and tyrant carry cases are cheap but will have to pluck the foam for the larger models and will need at least two to store most of the army, probably not even all of it.

So I am thinking should i try and do one myself?, that way I get all the storage I need plus loads of foam left over for the future expansions.

The most common foam I have found sold in large sizes are upholstry foam, will this be too hard?, I have a carry on bag that is 26inchs long by 15 wide and 10 deep, in this I could fit pretty much everything bar the assault ram, which I wouldnt be adverse to buying a KR with pre cut foam just for that. I would plan on lining the foam with plasticard or corrguated plastic to make to be able to pull one large tray out without it bending,

Opinions?, does anyone know what KR BF et all use for their foam, I have read that one of the foams I am looking at is grade 33 iirc does this mean anything to anyone?
I dont really fancy dropping another few hundred quid on the hobby at the moment, I have spent a fair amount in the past 3 weeks and have to spend another hundred or so in the week so going to try and be tight now!

Well I can't answer most of your questions, but I did buy several square feet of upholstry foam from walmart a while back, it was like 1" deep so I double stacked for most of the trays I made. The stuff I bought was quite soft, more so than the sabol trays I have, and it was cheap, I think $10 or $15 for maybe 14 or 16 square feet. I made double deep trays to fit in a hard plastic tool box to carry my jump pack marines. I basically glued two sheets together with a bottom of thin craft foam, using a hot glue gun, outlined where I wanted to cut with a sharpie and ruler, then used a long blade box cutter to trim out the spaces for my models. Its not the best solution as the foam is kinda flimsy when compared to the sabol or battllefoam at least; but it was very cost effective. Good luck.

I love battlefoam for most of my armies. For tau this foam is literally perfectly cut. Orks not so much. tyranids its pretty good. But mostly this stuff rocks for space marines. fits perfect for nearly every model in every army

little pricey for battelfoam but less pricey then getting all my models smashed because i used something cheaper.

saves time when you get the pre cut too. which im a big fan of.

got a funny shaped model? a giant model (titan or a flyer)? a custom build? send in a trace and they will make you a foam cut out for it.

good customer service for em. they even keep someone on skype to help walk you through any problems.

Upholstery foam is great, much softer than BF or Sabol.

I made a blog post about cutting your own trays a while back

http://blackfang15mm.blogspot.com/2012/03/protip-custom-foam-trays.html

Don't underestimate the merits of regular packing peanuts. They actually do a great job of keeping things from jostling around.

The one downside is that you could find it hard to find a particular model in the packing peanuts.