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How They Pack It: Old Guard Painters


Syrinx0 writes:

TP the figures and add bubble wrap or paper to keep the bags from moving is the right way to do it. I bought some painted cavalry from China where the TP wrapped riders were inserted in reused packing foam – didn't lose a lance.



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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian writes:

I have been fascinated over the years as I have seen the ingenious ways in which the large painting services successfully pack finished figures for shipping, and I have been remiss in not writing about this earlier. The problem is that I am so eager to open the boxes, I forget to take pictures of how the figures are packed! grin

Box

So here is a package that arrived at TMP today from our friends in Ukraine, Old Guard Painters. (OK, I already started to open it…)

Open box

Opening the box, you find a layer of bubblewrap and an inventory sheet.

Open box

Remove the bubblewrap, and you see that the box is full of ziploc bags containg brown bundles. (Ignore the writing on the bags – they re-use bags, so the writing has nothing to do with their current contents.)

Bag

Here's a random bag drawn from the box. Note that there's a slip of paper detailing what's in the bag. It's quite useful that they put this on a slip rather than writing it on the bag, because if you need to move the figures to your workbench, you can keep the slip with the figures rather than having to keep the entire bag.

Wrapped figures

Emptying the bag, you can see that the brown objects are painted figures wrapped in brown paper. Unwrap slowly, just in case there are multiple pieces (or, worse, anything broken).

Painted figures

Here are the unwrapped figures, which are 28mm Goblins with maces. (You'll see them again someday on TMP, after I get them based.)

The packing system is very simple, and there's not a lot of padding. But my experience over the years is that this system works. The figures arrive safely and undamaged.