WotC Miniatures Storage?

[MeepoTheMighty]

I have to carry mine around to two different games, so I just use a huge toolbox, with ziplocks to sort them by categories (in theory).

 

[Altalazar]

I use a couple of large tackle box trays. (I have gotten the hang of using those for my ASL counters - those I have thousands of).

I've just now basically run out of space in them. One tray for the "good" figures, another tray for the "evil" ones. It seems like the "evil" one is overflowing while the "good" one still has a bit of room left.

If I get any more minis, I need to get more trays.

My old, metal figures I keep in a gun storage case with several layers of foam insets.

 

[Hawkshere]

Holding over 300 minis so far and still has lots of room left:

Link: Container Store

 

[frankthedm]

plastic prepainted minis get nonchalantly tossed into a cardboard box. My Painted minis are placed in foam-lined toolboxes of my own design.

http://www.enworld.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7757&stc=1

 

[Christian]

I'm surprised by this question: Does the paint on the new miniatures chip? I thought one of the advantages of cheap plastic minis is transportability.

I've been using the 'throw them all in a box' storage method, and I haven't noticed any wear on the paint to date. The weapons do end up getting bent, though-easy to straighten, but as someone else stated, kind of a pain if you have a big collection.

 

[Barcode]

I went the the local craft store and got a case intended for holding and compartmentalizing beads. I have about 160 minis in this case, roughly organized using my patented "free-association" cataloguing system. The only ones that don't really fit are the ones with large wingspans. I like it.

 

[diaglo]

I throw them in a big box. It's neither neat nor pretty.

ditto. they get no respect from me either.

 

[stevelabny]

ok, so the group im DMing has bought a case of each set, plus a few extra packs of everything. This is how I store them

I took an empty CASE of minis. Put one row of empty mini boxes across the bottom of the case, then stood 12 mini boxes on top of them.
Then i labeled the 12 box tops: goblinoids/kobolds, orcs, elves, dwarves, halflings/gnomes, undead, animals/were-creatures/gnolls, human common types, human soldier types, human-unique types, tribes, more tribes, misc.
The human-unique type box is filled with any rare or uncommon human figure that I think is cool enough to be an importnat NPC (or PC)
The tribes boxes are where I have my lizardfolk, kuo-toa, draconians, harpies, etc
the misc box gets a bunch or rares and uncommons that dont fit in other boxes, or i have too few of to actually make a tribe.

yes, thats 15 boxes, so i took another empty case, and put the same setup with the extra 3 boxes, and two starter packs with the LARGE sized minis in them.

the more minis that come, I will need to add boxes or cases for storage as necessary, but if i needed to transport them , i can easily just take out the box i need (all undead and dwarves today) or qucikly find the specific minis i want to throw in a bag.

 

[eryndel]

No, I'm not particularly worried about paint, just on the KIDS getting hold of the rares I've paid damn good money for that are likely to be irreplaceable in the future as production of older sets is shut down. I've seen what disdain they have for THEIR toys so I'm paranoid about mine after they've shown such enthusiasm for them. If I even once catch them playing in the living room or the back yard with a (just currently!) $20 dragon or $15 umber hulk I'll sell the little punks for the most heinous medical experiments available. Fortunately their mum and dad would agree to that.

What a difference, the most use my miniatures get is when my three year old pulls them out to tromp about my Dwarven Forge stuff. He particularly loves the "Daddy Dragon" (Red) and all his baby dragons (crested felldrakes). Sometimes they even like to have tea with the Displacer beast and the Dire Ape.

I'm probably offensive to some

Werner

 

[Torque]

I'm too cheap to use fancy storage for well-nigh indestructible minis. I just have a canvas Trader Joe's bag filled with 10 booster boxes, 5 for warbands that I have already constructed, and one for each faction (and 1 for multi-faction pieces) of pieces that I'm not using at the moment. All the cards are either with their warband, or in a couple of old Middle Earth CCG starter deck boxes. It's cheap and portable, and as I get more boosters, I automatically get more boxes to keep them in.