Tray 1: Space Marine Bits. Pretty clear, I have a ton of space marine bits.
Tray 2: Planned Minis: This tray is where I group bits for minis in assembly. I stole this idea from Ron at FtW.
Tray 3: Catch All: This tray has a ton of random stuff from rubble, space marine vehicle bits, warhammer bits, chapter specific space marine stuff.
Tray 4: This tray was one recently cleared out of paint to make room for my Nid bits from my Assault Brood box. I have really not gotten this of the ground mainly because I have not been able to decide how to build them.
Ofcourse this is not all my bits. I have a few bags of bits seperated out for this project or that plus a bag of cities of death bits. I also have a small pile off uncut sprues still that I am working on.
Sweet I use a box for all of my bits but I might try seperating them.
ReplyDeleteSeperating the bits is really helpful. In my space marine tray I have a place for heads,torsos, backpacks, shoulder pads, left handed weapons, 1 right handed weapons, 1 place for bolters, 1 special ranged weapons, multiple places for embleshments of different types, scout bits, and terminator bits. So when I am doing conversions or kit bashing, I can look at all my parts of that type to pick the best one for the overall look I am going for.
ReplyDeleteYes, organization is always a good thing!
ReplyDeleteWow, you're even more organized than me.
ReplyDeleteWow, I need that kind of orgainization. My stuff is sitting in a series of cardboard boxes, on shelves, and in drawers. It's madness, yet somehow when I need a specific part, I know exactly where it is.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to Costco this weekend for this. Thanks for the idea.
Unfortanutely I got it about a year ago so costco probably will not have it right now but I bet you could find something similar at a home depot or something.
ReplyDeleteWow. I'm not sure I could manage such organisation - for long anyway. I once stuck all the different bits in specific sandwich bags, but soon found myself emptying them to get at the certain bit i needed right at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteRight now, I have a massive Quality Street tin for warhammer and 40k full of "unassigned" bits, then about a dozen or so old-style GW mail order boxes for various projects being worked on, as well as uncut sprues all over the place - it's absolute chaos.
I even tried to organise it a bit the other day, but after three hours, I gave up...
This is a mobile setup since I unlike my wife do not have a dedicated hobby(craft) area. Small parts storage is available in cabinets for wall hanging or sitting on a desk which can do a wider range of piece sizes for large projects.
ReplyDeleteGood Idea on bitz, i have a kind of catch all box and then sort down from there, orks take up a lot of room and so do all the bitz from vehicles and such.
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