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So I started organizing my bits box to reduce the amount of room my bits box takes up so I'm cutting everything off and putting it in a cheap bead storage box.

Everything is easy you cut it out and put it with similar pieces, heads go with heads. But paired arms can't get mixed in with other pieces or even other arms.

So I was wondering how other people store paired arms in their bits box, thanks in advance.

When it matters wich arm pairs to wich? I color code them where theyd join at the shoulder.

Arm set A - L.arm/R.arm = red
Arm set B - L.arm/R.arm = blue
etc etc etc
Then they'd either go in a bin as a pair. Or into L/R arm bins.

I sort by volume of the bits, if there are a lot of right arms and a lot of left arms, then I separate them, if few to medium I put them together. Sometimes I sort by weaponry, CC or shooty, it all depend on the bits and the amount of room in your box.

and of course by faction, race, game system, maker etc. everyone has their own way of sorting.

I used to label parts where necessary back when I was doing bits sales by leaving a small piece of sprue attached and writing a number on there with a sharpie.

Do the arms have matching marks? Back with the 3rd ed. multipart marines, the matching arms had matching details, so you could tell who went with who, even when cut. Not sure if they kept that design ethos with modern kits, but it was a great feature at the time.

I either use mini ziplocks or just dump them together into the arm spot of the bitz box. I figure, if I’m kitbashing a mini with old arms, I’m probably going off reservation enough that I’d need to check, cut, and adjust the arms anyway. Plus I’m lazy.

I tend to group parts by model type in those little sealable plastic wallets. When the model has a lot of parts or some are much bigger I break them down into separate bags - eg I've a bag of all the bigger gun arms for my Tyranids which includes all their counterpart segments for the other side.

I think in the end it depends how many little bags you want and how separated you want/need your collection to be. You can put every different part into bags or group them by type or by model etc....


The order doesn't matter, what matters is that with the volume of items you've got; you are able to sort through and find what you want easily.



That was what prompted me to sort my stuff into types and model types and such; because I found I couldn't find even a simple part. Took me a good afternoon to sort through a box of tyranid bits that were just all lumped together. But now its all in little bags.