How do you store and tote your D&D minis?

[Mighty Halfling]

How do you store and carry your D&D-brand plastic minis?
I found an empty kitty-litter bucket made out of clear plastic, peeled off the stickers and put mine in there. Insided, I further separating them into plastic bags labeled things like "critters," "orcs," "kobold," "aquatics" and so on.
All in all, it's easy to carry, but it still looks like a bucket of kitty litter.
How do you store and tote your DDMs?

 

[phindar]

I picked up a couple of carrying cases from my local hardware store. I guess they're made for porting large numbers of small things like screws or fuses, but I use them to transport large numbers of small things like minis. Mine ran me 10 or 15 bucks a box, and I can carry a few hundred minis in them easily. A friend of mine went to one of the larger DIY chains and picked up a box that's a size up from mine, his ran about 20-25 bucks, and can probably hold about 1,000 Medium minis, with larger boxes to hold the big boys.

Before that, I was using tackleboxes. Those work pretty good too, as long as they have the individual plastic trays that lock shut. For painted minis, I usually cut some small squares of foam to cushion their travel, but the plastics I just dump in their individual slots.

 

[Modoc]

Phindar,

Can you post some pics of your bucket/box you use?

If you need a free photo hosting site, try photobucket

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Like this:

 

[Crysmalon]

Fishing tacklebox.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Fishing tacklebox.

Yep. Most large stores also sell a four-tray plastic box with a handle. The trays have individual compartments and pieces to divide up further. All my M and S minis (and many L) I put in there. The big ones? Well, I'm working on that solution.

 

[Lalato]

I use 5 of these to store the ones I use for RPG...

I use one of these for the ones I use for the D&D Minis Game...

I use 5 of these for the ones that I'm trying to trade or sell...

--sam

 

[Olaf the Stout]

At the moment I have about 400 or so. They are sorted into different groups like Orcs, Undead, armoured, etc, put into snap-lock bags and stored in 3 drawers in my desk. The large and huge minis just sit loose. I really need to find something better to store them in but that does the trick for now.

Olaf the Stout

 

[ChristianW]

Like this:

Holy guacamole! You have a flock of dragons! That is one serious collection. I imagine you must have some great looking battles.

 

[Agamon]

I used to store them in plastic baggies labeled by type and store din shoeboxes. But I have too many now and store them much like Kae'Yoss, though mine is a single shelf built into two walls of the gaming room.