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

[Thurbane]

Ice cream tubs.

 

[Droogie]

I've cut the original minis boxes down to about 4.5 inches tall, and I put them all into shoeboxes. The ones with the flip-top lids are best. If you need to find a particular mini fast, I just pull out the smaller box out of the shoebox and dump it.

I've got about 4 big shoeboxes of plastic crack so far. If I need to carry the whole collection someplace, I put them in a zip-up handbag that I found at the dollar store.

 

[phindar]

Phindar,

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

If you need a free photo hosting site, try photobucket

Sorry, no camera. Luckily, the ones I use are very similar to the ones Lalato posted, a little bit bigger than the second toolbox pictured. Since I live in the boonies, all my game materials have to travel.

 

[Shadowslayer]

I store mine in cookie tins and in those hard Ziploc or Glad containers. If I'm taking the show on the road, I have a couple single layer Plano type boxes, but usually only need one.

A question, just out of genuine curiosity: Why the need to take hundreds of minis to a game? I could never DM that many encounters in a night. Sure , if you're playing Warhammer or some game where you need armies, but for D&D? I mean, if its just to show off your minis, I can dig that. But I'm curious.

Alas, now I've discovered painting my own pewter, transport for minis is getting a little more complicated. That's the ONE thing I hate about doing my own.

 

[Mighty Halfling]

A question, just out of genuine curiosity: Why the need to take hundreds of minis to a game? I could never DM that many encounters in a night. Sure , if you're playing Warhammer or some game where you need armies, but for D&D? I mean, if its just to show off your minis, I can dig that. But I'm curious.

If you're not the DM and you are the mini supplier for the group, then you have to bring all your minis!

 

[Kwitchit]

My transport method: Those clear plastic boxes that Chinese takeaways come in, lined with several layer of kitchen towel.

 

[Bagpuss]

Assuming we are talking D&D Plastic miniatures...

I use http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/uk/index.htm they produce clear plastic boxes that stack on each other.

The 4 litre box on the right, is available with two layers of trays that you can hold about 6 to 8 miniatures in.

Currently I have 3 x 4 litre with trays, and a 9 litre (no trays) which stacks with them I've a spare 1 x 4 litre with no trays that is empty.

The medium and smaller are stored in the trays, group by general type, armoured fighters, fighters with shields, two-weapon fighters, wizards, more wizards, monks, gnomes, etc. I have about 2 boxes (4 trays) of PC race medium or smaller creatures; another box (2 trays) of monsters and none PC (drow, orcs, elementals, etc) and then the 9 litre box is all my huge and large miniatures thrown into together. I'm considering moving the large minatures to the empty 4 litre box, once the 9 litre one gets too full to search effectively.

 

[Nifft]

I throw them in a nondescript cardboard box, which I hide when girls come over.

-- N, ashamed

 

[Kae'Yoss]

If you're not the DM and you are the mini supplier for the group, then you have to bring all your minis!

That's why I host all our games. Well, it was not exactly the minis (though they were another reason), but the books. I had all those nice books but could only ever use some of them because I can only bring so many books with me before my back breaks.

So now we play in my Dungeon, and we have access to all my books and minis.

 

[dogoftheunderworld]

For storage and transport: