Like most wargamers, over the years I have struggled with the issue of figure storage. We invest a great deal of time and money buying, preparing, painting and basing miniatures, so need to store them in the best way possible, taking in to account some of the following factors:
- Space
- Most of us, even if we have a dedicated wargames room, have a finite amount of space to store figures and other gaming accessories.
- Protection
- We want to protect our figures from damage and dust.
- Portability
- We need to protect wargames figures from where they are stored to our wargames table, or take them with us to a friend's house or the local wargames club.
- Flexibility
- Many collections include single-based figures and figures in different scales.
I've spent a long time thinking about this, and have come up with a storage system that I'm using for my own collection of single-based 20mm and 28mm miniatures and smaller scale (6mm/10mm and 15mm figures.
Sally 4th Warchests
The Warchest has been designed as a mix-and-match system, so that you buy just what you need for your personal needs. The system is made up of boxes, lids and inlays. Size: 245mm x 183mm
- Boxes
- The boxes are designed with a lip, to make them easy to lift, and can be used as a stand-alone system or fit into IKEA wooden drawers. Boxes are available in three heights.
- 50mm high
- Great for 6mm figures and 10mm/15mm/20mm infantry.
- 75mm high
- Great for 10mm/15mm cavalry
- 100mm high
- Great for 28mm figures
- Lids
- These have been designed with a deep lip above and below to facilitate safe and efficient stacking, and so that the lid can be used as a mini tray to carry figures to the games table and put casualties on during the game.
- Inlays
- Available in 2mm and 3mm MDF. Glue them to bottom of the box to protect miniatures from movement-related damage.
- 15mm diameter bases x 140
- 1p bases x 70
- 20mm bases x 70
- 2p bases x 48
- Round GW-style bases x 48
- Warmaster units x 12
- FoW Medium bases x 18 and four small
- FoW Large bases x 9 and four small
If there is an inlay tray that is not listed, drop us an email and we can add one to your specification. Sally 4th manufacturers a full range of rectangular, circular and hexagonal bases, as well as regular- and irregular-shaped movement trays. We can easily design inlays to match these.
Benefits
These are very space-efficient, and have been designed to stack very securely with a deep lipped lid, and provide good protection from dust and to damage in transit by holding figures upright in custom-cut inserts.