How do you store your unpainted/unassembled figures?

[Darkson]

After gaming for 20+ years this isn't the sort of question I should need to be asking, but as someone that hates painting it's something that's never really bothered me until recently.

Like most of us, I have a mountain of unpainted lead/metal alloy/resin/plastic, not just for BB but old 40K stuff, WFB, Dreadball, Deadzone and to many others.
How do you store it? A lot of mine is sitting in boxes, either the ones I bought them in (mainly old GW stuff) or the ones they shipped in (Impact, Heresy etc). Of course, this means that when I'm looking for X I need to dig through A to Z to find it.

So what do the organised amongst us do?

[the solitaire]

Same here. I did try writing the contents of each box on the box once but after the contents shifted (which happens every time I am looking for something) the writing confuses me more then anything now.

I'm not the one for a well sorted bits box.

[howlinggriffon]

If I need to find something I have to organise an expedition into the heart of my lead mountain. Sometimes it can take days.

[Wifflebat]

I started out with an organized tool box--a large compartment for teams, smaller ones for stars, sideline figures, partial teams, and odds and ends.

Then another hardware/screws box for bases, balls, odds and ends. And oh, that Orc star player I don't really need. And wait, I wanna repaint that Dark Elf to be a runner. Put that in there. Okay, stars in this screw case, and bases and those things I wanna make into reroll counters in this one.

And then a tub with a lid for those Kickstarter teams. Except for the Skaven, they go in the big toolbox. Wait, then I need room for the Khemri in the tub. Ooh, and those vamps. Okay, another tub for those teams plus the new ones. Wait, where did I put the Desert Dogs again? Maybe I should get a bigger main toolbox.

And then there's the stacker with the unpainted Zombicide minis. Maybe, if I dump that out, I can put the old Orcs and the Dwarves I need to strip in there while I paint the Undead... And hope that I finish something before the new Super Dungeon Explore arrives...

[mzukerman]

1st world problems?

Seriously, I envy your issue. I only buy/assemble teams that I'm going to use. I can tell you that when I've gone to conventions I've picked up extra single minis that I had intentions on using at some point in the future that still remains unpainted. Those I keep in a box or in some bags. I'm not very good with them.

[Saebelsultan]

Since I have not too much odd stuff lying around, I put the things I consider thematically close to each other in see-through plastic bags (someties labeld) and then store them in a nice card board box (IKEA, black). Done!

Oh, and of course, the rest is scattered all over the living room

[gninocker]

Has anyone seen that halfling chef OOP with the pizza? It's in there.

[faust_33]

I use plastic organizer boxes for each team and print a label for the sides. They stack pretty nicely in the closet and easily hold all the minis for a team, with a few spots open for referees, etc.

I also tried adding some weather stripping tape on the inside of each compartment to keep things from bouncing around. I only did that for two boxes as it was pretty time consuming but maybe someday will go back and finish up the others. I'd really rather spend the time finishing all these minis that are waiting to be painted though.

Here's the organizer box, I found them at a Fred Meyers department store in the sewing section:
http://p.globalsources.com/IMAGES/PDT/B ... er-Box.jpg

[J_Bone]

Most of my unpainted stuff sits assembled (and sometimes primed) on my desk behind my painting station so it eggs me on to get it finished. Anything I don't intend to paint in the immediate future gets its box written on in a fat marker detailing the contents and then they get put into the huge drawer in my desk. If I think I'll probably never paint it I will do the same but put it in the attic with the rest of my old GW games that I'll never play again.

[lunchmoney]

In a box in a cupboard.
Or on a shelf in the lounge.
Or on a shelf in the hall way.
Once I even found a model in the kitchen, but I moved that one to a box in the cupboard.

I dont really know how much we have in the way of models. The wifelet's collection was added to mine and everything stashed away. I know where my BB teams are. I know where my Epic collection is (though which box has which army is a different matter). I'm pretty sure we have about 5 WHFB armies between us. Plus a BFG fleet, MOW fleets, a few Malifaux things, 5 or 6 Necromunda gangs, plus countless models just bought for roleplay games as characters, npcs, and monsters. All in boxes. In the cupboard. Or on a shelf in the lounge if we've used them in the last 12 months.
Then I inherited my brother's ramshackle collection last year and that included some interesting models from over the last 4 decades. They're in a box. In the cupboard.


I have images of when we get a bigger place, of us going through it all and getting models painted, then putting them on display in the spare room. Idle fantasy

[TheDancingClown]

I have images of when we get a bigger place, of us going through it all and getting models painted, then putting them on display in the spare room

Or left behind in the box in the cupboard

[Dr. Von Richten]

Mostly in the boxes they came in, either the 3rd ed GW boxes or the later GW ones (the boring white ones).

[Brage97]

I have a Mini Bin, made on the drawings for Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin. It's about 150 feet tall and filled with unpainted miniatures in plastic, resin and metal.

Sometimes I like to dive and swim in the sea of miniatures

[Rubick]

I have images of when we get a bigger place, of us going through it all and getting models painted, then putting them on display in the spare room

Or left behind in the box in the cupboard

Spare room... AKA the man cave.

[spubbbba]

I am a big fan of converting and GW’s plastics open up a lot of possibilities for me. I often buy boxed sets on a whim if I think they have potential so have a lot of them stacked up, some barely even touched. For metal teams of unpainted single figures I have a book shelf I line them up in and boxes for spare or random players.

If the boxes get a bit bashed or I’ve used most of the bits for a team then I will cut everything off and store them in plastic grab bags. I have loads of these from buying models and bits off e-bay. I have a bag for each type of bits so there are dwarf, high elf, chaos bags etc. Where I have a lot of bits then I will break them up futher so there may be separate goblin, orc, black orc and saveage orc bags or even a bag just for one specific unit.

As I mostly focus on Bloodbowl nowadays I always on the look out for suitable bits to use as bloodbowl armour. I have set aside specific bags for loin cloths, gloved or bare empty hands, helmets/heads and miscellaneous parts which often includes bits cut off other bloodbowl models. As shoulder pads are one of the most useful conversion parts I always pick those up when I can so have a bag of small, medium and large pads depending on the size of model they are meant for.