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Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Battlegrinder » Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:36 pm

I've started buying and assembling my army, and my various Lego storage containers are getting filled up at a rapid pace. I've been looking for some new containers to hold all the minifigs, weapons, armor, and assorted crap that I'll need, but I'm having trouble finding containers that are going to be large enough to hold the whole army (which is going to have about 150 or so minifigs once it's done). Does anyone have some suggestions?

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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by samuelzz10 » Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:15 pm

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Post by motorhead fan » Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:19 pm

just buy plastic boxes, maybe at Ikea, although it will take ages to go round the shop

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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Maverick » Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:23 pm

samuelzz10 wrote:Container with wheels underneath your bed
Got three of those. It works. Unless the bottom breaks for no reason. Then you'll start picking up parts everywhere.

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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Overwatch_Elite » Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:31 pm

What if we just threw two mattresses down and don't have a bottom under the bed?

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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by IVhorseman » Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:59 pm

I sort big pieces by color into plastic boxes. I use fishing tackleboxes and craft storage things to hold all the minifig parts, weapons, and other small nubblies.

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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Battlegrinder » Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:04 pm

IVhorseman wrote: I use fishing tackleboxes and craft storage things to hold all the minifig parts, weapons, and other small nubblies.
That's what I do too. The issue is, I'm almost out of room in my current ones, and I got them so long ago that I have no idea where they originally came from.

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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by cleanupcrew » Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:28 pm

I sort my pieces by color into Ziploc bags, keeping especially interesting ones (like guns, gold, and food pieces) in a small separate box. I have two small bins for mini fig parts and completed-but-useless minifigs. I keep my MOCs and my armies on shelves.

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Post by Silverdream » Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:32 pm

I just throw mine into random plastic containers and on the floor.
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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Alex » Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:40 am

I keep spare pieces in plastic boxes, generally sorted by category: vehicle parts, angle pieces, platforms, plants and animals, people and equipment/nublies etc. When I actually construct armies and MOCs, I put them on the shelves in my room. although I'm now out of shelf space. A couple of things are now on the floor by my shelves.

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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Kalvinator » Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:44 am

Pieces and parts: Plastic Bins and the like. When I destroy the Millenium Falcon this weekend I may need another

Things I've built: Around my room, on shelves, etc.
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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Ben-Jammin » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:05 am

I keep most of the larger pieces in large boxes, as well as most models I've built. Models and MOCs that are too big for a box I put on a series of shelves I've built in the corner of my room.

I also keep several large ziploc bags for the smaller elemets, and place most of my minifigs, their accessories, and some models in a set of drawers that I have.

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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Zahru II » Sat Jan 18, 2014 2:43 pm

Boxes, cases, tubs, ziploc bags.
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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Kalvinator » Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:42 pm

Ben-Jammin wrote: I also keep several large ziploc bags.
How could I have forgotten the ziploc bags.
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Re: Where do you store all this shit?

Post by Gungnir » Sun Jan 19, 2014 4:42 am

Giant plastic container in my closet. I haven't been able to build anything due to my current living arrangements.
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