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Well, I don't do it much myself, but I have a friend who uses metal boxes to tote his minis around. Why metal you ask? Because he's gotten little magnets which he glues to the bottoms of them.
I use transparent plastic tool storage cases (from Akro-Mils) which open at the top and are subdivided into 15 smaller sections. I have 2 cases for PC types, 1 for NPC bad guys, 1 for humanoid monsters, 1 for Undead, 1 for Animals, 1 for Elementals and Dragons, and 1 for Outsiders/Aberrations. I use the smaller sections to sub-categorize them (i.e. Human-sword and shield, Human-polearm, Human-healer, Elf-Archers). I also have 2 cases of Large miniatures. I keep my huge miniatures (and Large ones that don't fit properly in the storage cases) in a hand-carried bag.
Most of my players have young kids, so we've taken to using empty Baby Wipe boxes, marked with what's inside them. Adorable little sky-blue ****ers stacked up, with labels like "Vermin" on the front. Makes it easy to put a single mini back in the box without having to open it - just shove him through the slot.
The big guys sit on a shelf. It keeps them from breeding.
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Forgive the slight thread-detour, but ... Louisville, Kentucky?
I would have sworn the entire Louisville crowd in the 80s came through Games Galore at one time or another, yet I don't recognize any of the names on your list. (My first AD&D DM was a Baptist minister and seminary student named Steve Brown; I still see him pretty much every year at GenCon.) Feel free to PM.
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I have a very large volume of metal and plastic minis.
They're arranged in different ways, most of the older metal ones in the same safe storage cases. Newer WotC ones i keep in the boxes in which i ordered them (i buy singles) with prints of the minis in the case. For big bundles, like PCs/Npcs, Humanoid monsters, Goblinoids(small monsters), Undead, etc, i keep in separate boxes. I also use clear plastic baggies, especially for specific encounters before a game.
My current setup has a bunch of plastic storage units with drawers for pre-painted plastic minis. I have the following drawers at the moment:
--Demons and Devils
--Angels and Elementals
--Giant Humanoids (giants, ogres, trolls)
--Monstrous Humanoids (human-sized, humanoid monsters that don't belong to one of the orc/goblin races)
--Constructs (golems, animated statues)
--Humans ("generic" humans that come in groups, e.g., archers, footmen, cultists)
--Orcs and Goblins (orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears)
--Undead
--Animals (real-world vertebrates, plus giant varieties of same)
--Vermin (real-world invertebrates, plus giant varieties of same)
--Miscellaneous Heroes (unique humans and members of other PC races; players who don't bring their own minis use these)
--Miscellaneous Monsters (any monster that doesn't go in any of the above categories)
Since some of the dragon minis are way too big to fit in drawers, dragons go on top of the storage units. Painted metal minis are on a separate shelf so they don't get knocked around as much.
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I'm an organization freak, so I also have clear plastic labels on all the drawers so I know what is in them. Everything is separated by monster type.
These things work great and they allow me to quickly and easily find what I want.
And don't tell anyone, but I also like to store minis under my bedsheets and bury myself under them. When my wife asks if that's a clear plastic sword poking her or am I glad to see her, it really is a clear plastic sword.
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Seven 5-shelf bookcases with 2 additional shelves added to each.
Gargantuan and larger minis on the tops.
But, looking for a new system since it looks like I might need to give that room back.
Jody, say it ain't so!?
Anyway, I too use a selve system so I can see all of the minis. I just use 6 shelves currently compared to the 37 Jody needs. I just started collecting them to run friends through H1-P3.
I started off in 1977 with a Ral Partha High Elf w/longspear Human Fighter w/sword + shield, and a Cold Drake w/feathered wings, and small sets of zombies, rats and centipedes from Heritage.
Apparently, minis have the same breeding characteristics as bunnies.
Boxed sets from Grenadier quickly followed, and the floodgates opened.
I now have I don't know how many thousands of minis. The metal ones outweigh me a couple of times over (I currently weigh 260lbs) and almost qualify as a home weightlifting set.
The plasticrack doesn't have the same kind of mass, but probably have the equivalent volume.
metal figs get foam lined cases. [instructions in sig].
Pre painted Plastic figs get tossed into a small cardboard box with a flap that can close. Each box gets a highly visible label. I'm making some new labels ATM, so here is a PDF of the newer labels.
I have got approximately 3300 D&D miniatures. I am organizing them in 60-65 paper boxes 20x20x4 cm3 and 20x20x8 cm3. The huge miniatures are in 3 20x40x16 cm3 boxes.
The labels I am using are:
Oh wow, I gotta thank you for bumping this thread. I was actually looking for this thread last week but didn't remember the name of it. And I can't search for my old posts.
From time to time a rearrangement becomes necessary. The next rearrangement I am planning is to organize the humans in more specific groups.
hmmm, mine are not that well organized.
Rangers & Rogues ...& halflings too!
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Casters & Cultists
Commoners
Barbarians and other degenerates
Apes & other sub humans
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Originally Posted by Oryan77
Oh wow, I gotta thank you for bumping this thread. I was actually looking for this thread last week but didn't remember the name of it. And I can't search for my old posts.
Not a problem. Google is your friend if you have any unique combination of words to search for, let me see what other necromancy I can perform for you.
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