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I'm wondering what terrain storage people are using and how they like it.

I'm currently storing my terrain in several 100 qt plastic bins, but I'm not happy with this solution. Largely I'm unhappy with the design of the bins I'm using and want to explore other storage options. I have a lot of terrain, easily enough for nine 6'x4' tables.

So, I'm curious what are you using, how do you like it and/or what you might recommend for me.

   
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Tubs, like the OP.

One 'table' per tub. Tubs all have locking and waterproof lids, and are stored in my gaming shed. With the tables and boards.

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You definitely want something more dust free, like a storage drawer in small/medium/large size, stored in room temperature, not in the garage, outdoor shed where cold and heat will affect the nicely painted terrain.
   
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 Big Mac wrote:
You definitely want something more dust free, like a storage drawer in small/medium/large size, stored in room temperature, not in the garage, outdoor shed where cold and heat will affect the nicely painted terrain.


Agree completely!

I have some stuff on shelves and they are covered with dust, plus I would have to pack them to play outside of my home. Clear plastic tubs is the way to go.

And the point on temperatures is spot on!

 
   
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I use clear under-bed storage boxes - they're a good deal shorter than the usual 50L/100L tubs but have a slightly longer footprint (or at least in the ones I found around here) so there's no need to stack inside each container and it keeps the stuff dust-free.

They stack nicely on shelves, too. I can fit a table's worth in each of them.
   
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usually use the "really useful boxes" here. the smaller 4l ones are good for stuff like scatter terrain, smaller parts, Riza ruins, pipes, containers, necromunda walls/doors etc.

have some of the 9l ones for slightly taller stuff.

then a few of the larger 36l ones which hold 15mm scale stuff, e.g. all my FoW terrain is in one of them.

trick for me is two fold -

- must be stackable
- must be easy to transport

the first is why I use the 4l and 9l boxes as they stack with each other nicely. the second drives using the smaller boxes, easier to grab the stuff I want without filling the car boot with a stack of stuff I won't use to take a few bits I want

also needed to be small enough to fit through the loft hatch at some point and the smaller boxes easily fit on shelves

the 36L ones are very good (and there is a half height flatter one with the same footprint) but at a bit too bulky to move about easily - as and when a games room is finally sorted some more of them will appear for stuff like hills

only flaw so far, the 12" square necromunda floor tiles don't fit in the smaller boxes
   
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If you go for shelves at the very least make sure they are sealed so that they don't get dust in them. Otherwise it does not take long to get a layer of dust on everything and then it takes forever to clean the dust off.

Plastic sealed tubs are sometimes even better as there really are no avenues for dust to get inside them. Though if you go for that solution make sure you sort out what is in each one and put some clear labels on them. Otherwise you can be sitting there with a mountain of containers and no real idea where anything is, what you've got and only inspiration to go hunting through them all once in a blue moon.

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Same principles as leopard but bigger boxes here: mostly a mix of clear lidded 32 litre underbed storage boxes and Curver boxes here. Both stack, can be driven with a reduced risk of tumbling, and go through the loft hatch. Buildings, hills and "big" (tall) stuff in the curvers, craters, walls, ruins, barrels, generators, cranes, silos etc in the underbeds.
   
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Waterproof tubs is probably the proper way. I store tables under couches and beds

   
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Big plastic storage boxes here. They "waste" a bit of space due to the irregular shape of terrain, but they keep it safe, dust-free and allow me to stack too. My gaming club uses the same approach. The key is not to overfill your boxes, as that just leads to breakages.
   
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Big boxes. It is at this stage I wish I had built terrain with storage not fancy looks in mind
   
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The ocd in me wants to have everything neatly lined up in matching boxes, or at least matching ranges of boxes.
The truth of the matter is a massive jumble of different types of boxes, that then go in the loft haphazardly. I prefer Really useful boxes, but more often than not get whatever looks about the right size for my needs

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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
 Big Mac wrote:
You definitely want something more dust free, like a storage drawer in small/medium/large size, stored in room temperature, not in the garage, outdoor shed where cold and heat will affect the nicely painted terrain.


Agree completely!

I have some stuff on shelves and they are covered with dust, plus I would have to pack them to play outside of my home. Clear plastic tubs is the way to go.

And the point on temperatures is spot on!


Temperature doesn't matter. I've had my minis and figures on the Porch or Garage for over a dozen Chicago winters and summers and everything's just fine.

Like most folks here I use various sizes of large plastic tubs. Started with rubbermaid tubs, but I've moved to Sterilite. They aren't as "sealed" but they're clear so you can see the contents and the more squared-off shape is much more efficient.

I don't have enough room to keep all my terrain in the house so most of it lives in the garage and I'll keep one or two environments on hand. Garage Storage makes things especially handy for heading to conventions. The minis and terrain required for my "Mech Attack" games takes up most of a minivan but almost everything is in easily accessible tubs stacked on rows of pallet racking.

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 Eilif wrote:
 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
 Big Mac wrote:
You definitely want something more dust free, like a storage drawer in small/medium/large size, stored in room temperature, not in the garage, outdoor shed where cold and heat will affect the nicely painted terrain.


Agree completely!

I have some stuff on shelves and they are covered with dust, plus I would have to pack them to play outside of my home. Clear plastic tubs is the way to go.

And the point on temperatures is spot on!


Temperature doesn't matter. I've had my minis and figures on the Porch or Garage for over a dozen Chicago winters and summers and everything's just fine.

Like most folks here I use various sizes of large plastic tubs. Started with rubbermaid tubs, but I've moved to Sterilite. They aren't as "sealed" but they're clear so you can see the contents and the more squared-off shape is much more efficient.

I don't have enough room to keep all my terrain in the house so most of it lives in the garage and I'll keep one or two environments on hand. Garage Storage makes things especially handy for heading to conventions. The minis and terrain required for my "Mech Attack" games takes up most of a minivan but almost everything is in easily accessible tubs stacked on rows of pallet racking.


depend on what's fine in your definition, in my personal experience(while living in south TX few years ago) I had my water effect terrain in a crater stored on its side inside a plastic container, had stored in an outdoor patio storage and the water effect dripped, I used a hair dryer to repair it.
   
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Water effect is an exception I suppose. I'm a bit skeptical of it's use in wargaming terrain at all as in many cases of never really hardens. My buddy made some and it took on the texture of the bubble wrap it was placed under.

So is the moral of the story...

... keep your water effect terrain upright, temperature controlled and not in contact with anything.

... Or is it...

... Use epoxy instead.

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 Eilif wrote:


... Use epoxy instead.


Absolutely - our sole (so far) experiment with water effects used budget £1 shop epoxy tainted with ink and worked out pretty well.. lives in the shed and no complaints so far

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discovered a flaw in my usual 9l box system

have the Necromunda Ash Wastes set, and while the terrain will fit in a 9l box, its about 6" too high to stick the lid on.

can't even lay the larger hab module sideways as its still too tall, and would slide side to side and wreak the antenna

drat, drat and double drat
   
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leopard wrote:
discovered a flaw in my usual 9l box system

have the Necromunda Ash Wastes set, and while the terrain will fit in a 9l box, its about 6" too high to stick the lid on.

can't even lay the larger hab module sideways as its still too tall, and would slide side to side and wreak the antenna

drat, drat and double drat


Get another 9l box and lay it upside down on top of the first one! And Bob's your uncle!

 
   
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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
leopard wrote:
discovered a flaw in my usual 9l box system

have the Necromunda Ash Wastes set, and while the terrain will fit in a 9l box, its about 6" too high to stick the lid on.

can't even lay the larger hab module sideways as its still too tall, and would slide side to side and wreak the antenna

drat, drat and double drat


Get another 9l box and lay it upside down on top of the first one! And Bob's your uncle!


while stuff will definitely fit that way its going to make transporting it in the car a tad hard.. maybe a bit of hot glue and a few guides to stop the top box "lid" from sliding about though.

I'm told they do a deeper one which I think may be deep enough though
   
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Could use magnets as a way to hold the top box to the bottom one, leopard.

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 Dysartes wrote:
Could use magnets as a way to hold the top box to the bottom one, leopard.


Magnets...

is there anything they cannot do?

and how do they work...?
   
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 Big Mac wrote:
You definitely want something more dust free, like a storage drawer in small/medium/large size, stored in room temperature, not in the garage, outdoor shed where cold and heat will affect the nicely painted terrain.


I find that dust enhances the appearance of my urban ruins. I have a castle that stores in a tub, but that's only because it was also a class project for one of my kids.

Everything else is either so big it needs to be on a shelf, or small enough to fit in a jumbo plastic storage drawer. My days of packing terrain and taking it someplace else are over.

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