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I've just bought a nice new box to store all my bitz and before I spend far too much time trying to conquer my OCD and figure out the best way to organise things I thought I'd put this out there - How do you organise your boxes?

I personally use screw drawers

Plastic bags. Cheap, effective, malleable (so easily stacked), and easily rearranged if I need to invent a new category. (It still leaves the problem of finding the right plastic bag, but I find it a lot easier than plastic compartment boxes.)

I have several of those desktop 3 drawer organizers for 8x11 sheets of paper. I label each one by army (one is for vehicles). It does mean I have to sift through say all Imperial Guard etc...and sadly, I also have one bin that is unsorted ATM. So some organization, not a ton. Since you already bought a box, maybe the baggies are the way to go, but at one time I used one of those garage screws and bolts organizers, with rows of small "drawers/bins".
I will admit as I grew older and the bits grew in mass...I lost some of my OCD...

My bits collection got a bit out of hand so I had to organise it properly or there was no hope of finding anything.

The draws are pretty good really.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MULTI-DRAWER-STORAGE-CABINET-UNIT-SMALL-PARTS-NAIL-SCREW-CRAFT-BITS-ORGANISER-/231473098675

These are some really good ideas! Hadn't thought of bags actually!

It was one of those sorts of tool / screw type boxes I'd got - the ones with the compartments!

@Midget Gems I'm more excited by those drawers than I'd care to admit! Although maybe a little overkill for my current situation!

What is it you find yourselves going back looking for? So far I've got heads / torsos / shoulder pads, etc in separate parts; at which point do you draw the line and start throwing them in miscellaneous?

 mo09890 wrote:
@Midget Gems I'm more excited by those drawers than I'd care to admit! Although maybe a little overkill for my current situation!

What is it you find yourselves going back looking for? So far I've got heads / torsos / shoulder pads, etc in separate parts; at which point do you draw the line and start throwing them in miscellaneous?

Yeah its got bigger since I took that photo, I had to move all the Ork stuff into its own special area. E-bay buying is banned now until I complete a few more projects. >_<

As for my most used items, it is the Ork bits since I tend to make random things with Orks in for the (Unofficial) Dakka painting challenges eg Ork Star Wars, Ork Santas, etc.

I found the collection of bits tends to expand and organise based on your need. Examples are; I don't have many Eldar items or Dwarf bits so all bits of that race go into 1 draw. Whereas "SM Pads and Packs" got too much for the draw it was in so I had to split it into separate draws, one for Shoulder Pads and 1 for Backpacks. Ork Shoota Boys Arms ended up taking 3 draws as did the "Melee Arms"....

As long as you can find stuff and are happy with it do what works for you and the space you have. But make it easy for yourself, it will be very frustrating if you think you have organised things only to realise you still can't find anything .

As you take bits out of drawers you're gonna end up with a big pile of 'good bits' for whatever you're working on. It helps to put some colored tape down on your work area to split up and organize your current mound of bits into sections, otherwise you end up hunting and pecking and losing the entire point of drawers in the first place.