RE: [OT] a clarification of my comments to David (of DLD fame)

The Army Transport by Sabol Designs
(http://www.saboldesigns.net/website/armytransportx.html) is great.

I have yet to purchase one of these, but have seen them. It is a large
(14x13") container with 8 cutomizable trays. 6 are 1" deep and 2 are
2.5"
deep (for vehciles and other large items). At about $60us, they are not
cheap, but compaired to other "official miniatures cases", they are a
bargin
(9x capacity for 2x cost). The trays are a soft foam on top of a denser
foam
(bottom of tray), and have "cubes" cut through the soft foam for easy
customization (steve jackson games uses the similar "cubing" for
custimization in thier Ogre Miniatures line).

I am currently using shotgun cases for 25mm and Full Thrust miniatures.
And
Plano tackle boxes for 6mm (with foam padding). 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Lauren Lucas [mailto:katie@fysh.org]
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 15:34
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [OT] a clarification of my comments to David (of DLD fame)

Quoting Indy <kochte@stsci.edu>:

> Katie Lauren Lucas wrote:
> > [using make-up sponges for painting]
> >
> > Personally, for things like this, I always used to use the synthetic
> foam stuff
> > that comes in blister-packs of minis. It has no other use once
you've
> opened
> > the pack, and it's likely to be near at hand. :-)
> 
> I keep a supply of these for padding for my minis when I store them in
> things other than gun cases. Not the absolute best, but they work. 
> :-)

Which leads me onto another question: anyone recommend a good place to
get
portable storage for minatures?

Suppose someone has, ohhhhh, best part of a billion miniatures they need
to
home
and could do with a not-to-expensive storage system. The magnetic ones
would
be
a pain (rebasing everything), making boxes would take AGES and not all
of
the
stuff is human-sized (walkers, tanks, things like that).

I've got a bundle of carry cases that are "absolutely not the same as
the
ones
GW used to sell for about 3x the price". It would be nice to get all my
figures
stored in the SAME type of boxes...

[We are talking a LOT of figures here. 2 companies of WH40K space
marines;
suitable Genestealer opposition, millions and millions of fantasy
figures.]

If they were all in the same type of box at least it would all /stack/.

And not-too-expensive would be good as well, since I'll need a few of
them...

Cheers!!

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      Katie Lauren Lucas, Consultant Software Engineer, Parasol
Solutions
katie@fysh.org katie.lucas@parasolsolutions.com