What to Do With All Those Little Boxes (1 Viewer)

[SGT Rock]

I think it would be great if King and Country would make nice wooden cases (similar to a foot locker) with their mark on it to store all of the empty figurine and vehicle boxes in. Considering the investment we make in our hobby, it would be nice to have something that both looked nice and protected the value of our investment. In the absence of this, I was wondering what other people are using to store all of their empty boxes.

 

[Deitz]

I store the empty boxes in my attic. If the boxes contain figures I store them in a closet. I am not sure how the heat or cold would affect the figures.

Brian

 

[Phantom Warrior]

I think it would be great if King and Country would make nice wooden cases (similar to a foot locker) with their mark on it to store all of the empty figurine and vehicle boxes in. Considering the investment we make in our hobby, it would be nice to have something that both looked nice and protected the value of our investment. In the absence of this, I was wondering what other people are using to store all of their empty boxes.

There was a discussion of this a month or two ago but I don't remember what thread it was on. Some unique answers though.

I keep mine on cheap wooden Ikea basement storage shelves in the basement sorted by WW2 range

Terry

 

[rpk]

I have mine sorted by size in clear Sterilite containers in the basement with the stickers up facing the outside (for easy identification). Found 2-3 sizes that work well for storing the various common sized boxes, and put the odd sized ones on an open storage shelf near the containers. Used to put them in Rubbermaid tubs, but found Sterilite to be more squared off so there is less wasted space.

 

[lenswerks]

I put the boxes in 24 x 18 x 25 boxes and keep them at Public Storage which is climate controlled. I think I have about 12 of them now.
I could put them in the attic, but it gets well over 110 degrees up there and would turn the foam to mush in about a year.

It cost a little less than 50$ a month, but I keep other items there also.

 

[Obee]

I put mine in old boxes from work that the A4 paper for the printer comes from. Luckily I don't have many boxes to store, but if you buy the figures for investment, the box is about 25% of the value.... which is crazy for some cardboard and foam !!!!!!

John

 

[Njja]

I have a set of pallet racking in a garage, they store quite nicely on that.

 

[kilted vampire]

I am thinking about setting them on fire as they take up too much room

 

[Cardigan600]

Yo Troopers, very important one this. Some good points raised, of course KV takes the easy option Lenswerk has a good point about humidity if your lucky enough to have that problem. There is one big seller from Costa Rica who stored all his Old Britains boxes in the Attic, RESULT totally destroyed the boxes just rotted away. I would never put them in the Attic the amount of rain we have, you never know when you have a leak in the roof until its to late, so thats not an option. Nice idea in private storage controlled temperature if you can afford $600 a year. An important point here, K&C being relatively new items, and storing soldiers in foam boxes. I can tell you buying Chas Stadden items 90mm that were left in their boxes for years, the paint reacted with the foam, making a right gooey mess all the foam disintergrated and sticks to the model, it does wash off with some careful effort but the box is left in a right mess its like oil. So dont know if this would apply to K&C but watch out for this. John (Obee) says the box adds 25% to the value, but I would say its higher on the rarer models, just look at Dinky, Old Britains rare models, and dont forget an empty train box sold for £3,000.00 in an Auction in the UK. I keep mine in big suitcases under the bed, at least I know they are OK, and with locks on so the young Trooper cannot get them. Will have to go getting vertigo being up here, thats twice this week I have been on the K&C thread.
Bernard.