Boxes: To Keep or Not to keep
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I keep all my boxes.
Back in school i would keep all my PC game boxes. Though they were made from hard paper. Still have my fav game boxes though ^^. The new DVD boxes just plain suck.
I could still transport my full armies in the boxes i bought the models^^. And I even keep the blisters ^^.
Uhhhh bad pack rat i am.
Back in school i would keep all my PC game boxes. Though they were made from hard paper. Still have my fav game boxes though ^^. The new DVD boxes just plain suck.
I could still transport my full armies in the boxes i bought the models^^. And I even keep the blisters ^^.
Uhhhh bad pack rat i am.
lastbesthope
Mongoose
I keep my minis boxes, though of course my minis are still in the boxes, unassembled and unpainted :lol:
LBH
LBH
crucible_orc
Mongoose
i kept all my SST Boxes until february( i had bought one of everything up til then) and then i tossed everything except the main box.... i just don't have the room to keep it.
Well working on several projects in the garage this summer, one of them was to make use of the SST boxes. I find them more sturdy and durable than other mini boxes and since I have alot of them, and a lot of SST model, I now have a nice uniform means of storing them, well most of them.
Using my Hotwire Foam Factory 3D Scroll SawI was able to cut up a pile of those foam inserts you get in mini blisters (I have thousands!) into uniform sizes. It works quite like a table saw, and I was able to stack up a number of these inserts and cut them all at once.
Then using a hot glue gun, I glued them together into cells in which I could fit a mini and the assembly would fit in the cells of the plastic inserts in the boxes. I then use some adhesive hook & loop (i.e. Velcro) pads, the thinnest I could find, to the lid tab, to prevent the box from accidentally opening.
This method is very secure, but only holds 10 figures. Not the most efficient, but very secure and really didn't cost much at all.
Another method was to simply put a pair of convoluted (egg crate pattern) foam rubber sheets in the box. The IT guy at my office was giving me these, as they were normally getting thrown out, these were ideally size to fit inside the SST boxes with no cutting at all.
As you can see I can fit more than twice the amount into this box using this method. Believe it or not, but the foam was just tall enought that when you put the figures in, it made them snug. Closing the box (using the hook & loop pads mentioned above) and vigourously shaking them I found no shift in the figures. Might not survive a drop down the stairs but fairly secure and still didn't cost much.
I've used this to store most of my SST models, some of the larger ones used different cells I had to make from my scrap foam collection. I can fit 2 Apes and 2 Chickenhawks in 1 box. My Tanker Bug fits in the Tanker box. My Brain Bug & Infiltrator Bug fit in my Plasma Bug box. I use the smaller boxes (like the Heroes of the Mobile Infantry for things like Control Bugs, counters and dice. However, items like the Warrior, and Blister/Blaster Bugs end up in my main SST Starter box (just all loose). And I don't have an SST box to fit my Plamas bug in, however he'll get some sort of storage box, eventually. Most of the time, he just sits on the top of all the boxes and gets everyone's attention.
So now you can impress your green-minded significant other that not only are you working on your hobby but you're saving the environment. :wink:
Using my Hotwire Foam Factory 3D Scroll SawI was able to cut up a pile of those foam inserts you get in mini blisters (I have thousands!) into uniform sizes. It works quite like a table saw, and I was able to stack up a number of these inserts and cut them all at once.
Then using a hot glue gun, I glued them together into cells in which I could fit a mini and the assembly would fit in the cells of the plastic inserts in the boxes. I then use some adhesive hook & loop (i.e. Velcro) pads, the thinnest I could find, to the lid tab, to prevent the box from accidentally opening.
This method is very secure, but only holds 10 figures. Not the most efficient, but very secure and really didn't cost much at all.
Another method was to simply put a pair of convoluted (egg crate pattern) foam rubber sheets in the box. The IT guy at my office was giving me these, as they were normally getting thrown out, these were ideally size to fit inside the SST boxes with no cutting at all.
As you can see I can fit more than twice the amount into this box using this method. Believe it or not, but the foam was just tall enought that when you put the figures in, it made them snug. Closing the box (using the hook & loop pads mentioned above) and vigourously shaking them I found no shift in the figures. Might not survive a drop down the stairs but fairly secure and still didn't cost much.
I've used this to store most of my SST models, some of the larger ones used different cells I had to make from my scrap foam collection. I can fit 2 Apes and 2 Chickenhawks in 1 box. My Tanker Bug fits in the Tanker box. My Brain Bug & Infiltrator Bug fit in my Plasma Bug box. I use the smaller boxes (like the Heroes of the Mobile Infantry for things like Control Bugs, counters and dice. However, items like the Warrior, and Blister/Blaster Bugs end up in my main SST Starter box (just all loose). And I don't have an SST box to fit my Plamas bug in, however he'll get some sort of storage box, eventually. Most of the time, he just sits on the top of all the boxes and gets everyone's attention.
So now you can impress your green-minded significant other that not only are you working on your hobby but you're saving the environment. :wink:
Rabidchild
Mongoose
If you're going to commit thread-necromancy then a tutorial with pictures is the way to do it! Makes me wonder about using my SST main box with some foam.. it's pretty sturdy. Cheers for the ideas Cmdr!
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