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What is your preferred method for moving the largest warmachines in the grimdark future from your display shelf to the gamestore?

I haven't seen too many practical commercial options and I am curious how folks make do and move those titans and knights around.

-Magnetize them or build them very robust
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- Use boxes with your own cut out mattress foam / bubblewrap / foam peanuts or whatever you want.

Or if you really dont like to transport it leave it at the store.

If they're super heavy, I guess I would use a shipping container or something suitably robust.


Actual answer: Ikea wooden box with meta reinforced corners, lots of foam inside and parts dismantled

I own two Imperial Knights, a Baneblade and an Eldar Wraithknight. I have magnetised the arms of the walkers so that I can easily slip the body into a 'tube' of bubble wrap, I then slip the arms into bubble wrap 'pockets' and then put all this in a cardboard lined plastic box. The box is robust enough to keep most knocks from getting at the internals and I find that two layers of bubble wrap is plenty for plastic models.

My friends with resin models like to have 4 or more layers if they use bubble wrap, but they much prefer foam and use it where possible because resin models are much heavier - I personally have no experience with resin superheavies so I can't comment.

This is why I only play small games outside my house.

I don't need a zoning permit and license to rent the heavy equipment to move and protect my big stuff. Especially when it's mostly nids and chaos so it has a ton of thin pokey bitz that love to break off.

I build my own foam trays for them. I do alot of LARP weapon building so I have the foam laying around. Usually if it just a single baneblade though I just it in the floorboard of my back seat

KR Multicase has options for many of them. If I had a Warlord Titan it'd just stay on my shelf though.

I can sqeeze a Imperial Knight into a land raider box, with plenty of paper towl used for padding. inelegant but it works.

I transport my Stormsword/Shadowsword in one of my rather antique GW-cases(along with some other tanks).
My Knight Paladin has his own box, made of re-inforced cardboard, filled with bubblewrap.
Sadly, I don`t own a Godmachine....yet.