Packing for move - storage for minis

[Duncan7291]

Got to pack for move. Best way to store Pathfindrr battle minis?

[Duncan7291]

Any suggestions

[John Napier 698]

Get some sheets of bubble wrap. Place a column of minis on the wrap, then roll until those minis are completely covered. Repeat. When that sheet is done, tape off the ends of the roll and the seam.

[Duncan7291]

;) that’s a lot of bubble wrap. Thanks for suggestion.

[Swiftbrook]

A lot of minis? ==> plastic shoe tubs with paper/bubble wrap fill.

Just a few? I picked up this for travel Feldherr Figure Case

[Conjoy]

I like KR Multicase - they have a range of sizes and shapes, so you can take a small box to a con or friends house and leave larger boxes in storage. And most of the trays are interchangeable.

[John Napier 698]

If using a case, cut squares of soft foam rubber, two per compartment.

[Duncan7291]

I pretty much have complete sets of the last 6 released battle sets. So yes, a lot of minis ;)

[gnoams]

When I had to move my collection, I ended up spending a bunch of money and buying a bunch of foam armytransport trays. I also took the occasion to pare down my collection and get rid of a bunch of minis I wasn't using. It wasn't cheap, but now I have carriers to take my minis anywhere which makes them infinitely more usable.

Of course, this was for metal and plastic minis, all hand painted by me, so I wanted them protected. For pre-painted plastic minis, I just throw them all in a cardboard box.

[Duncan7291]

I have about 20 custom printed minis that I have in a small case. The others are run of the mill but don’t want all my spiders to have no legs.

[Rathendar]

Shoeboxes, styrofoam peanuts.

[vagabond_666]

I have a bunch of the older D&D miniatures, but I'm assuming they're basically the same pre-painted plastic type thing.

I store them in a bunch of cheap plastic boxes with removable dividers that are designed for screws or fishing tackle or the like.

Like this but even cheaper..

I've got a few that are slightly deeper for the large minis. I have few enough huges they just live in a box.

Now those cases sit on a shelf in my gaming room, but I've occasionally played at a friends house and taken minis over multiple times and they survive a 20 minute car trip just fine.

If you're talking about putting them in a truck and driving it from one coast of the US to another, then maybe it might be worth getting a bunch of cotton wool* to stick in there with them.

Not as cheap as the bubble wrap suggestion, but if you don't have a half decent storage system for the minis now, you'd have one afterwards.

*I'm not from the US, so in case you use a different term, the balls of cotton fibres used for make up removal etc.