Hi.

I'm culling half empty kit boxes. I'm getting rid of the boxes and storing the left overs into a semi organised "spares box". I've been puting the leftovers into zip lock bags by model. A label goes in showing what model it came from. I'll put the zip lock bags into a box unusually labelled "Spares box". It got me thinking if I was wasting my time and/or making more work for myself later.

How is your spares box organised? Is it one large shoe box with everything dumped in or hundreds of little containers hold parts by scale, colour, genre, theatre, people, armour etc.

Cheers

I like the multi-drawer boxes they sell at the hardware and discount stores. You can label the drawers (Sherman hull parts, Sherman 75mm turret parts, German small arms, German personal gear, U.S. heavy weapons, German heavy weapons, jerry cans, dio parts, German motorcycles, photoetch, nuts and bolts, etc., etc., etc. ... ) I have four boxes with various sized drawers and feel I need more.

I'm with Hollowpoint. Multi-drawer boxes. My setup is a bit different now, but, here's all my boxes.



I'm actually always on the hunt for a new one. You can't have enough multi-drawer boxes.

Cuhail

Yup, I use the multi-drawer storage cases for smaller items too. I still have a few boxes for vehicle specific parts though; one for Abrams parts, one for M113 parts, one for HMMWV parts, etc.

I too use the parts organizers.
you can see mine are on the middle left of the pic, my figgy's and related parts are in the upper right in the tackle box style.

Organize? I have to try that some day. Al

Badly...

I don't.




I should.

HA!




By dumping it out and digging through it.

I like the crucifix. I could use some divine intervention now and again.

That was my first sculpting project.
I was 7 or 8 years old.
Close up, it's hilariously lumpy and almost grotesquely out of scale.

My mom thought it was perfect!

I hang it up because my fiancee found it in a box when we moved in together and insisted I put it somewhere in my hobby room. We're so not practicing Christians, but, it's like a rabbit's foot or a horseshoe to me while I model.



Cuhail

Thank you all for you feedback. I also like looking at photos of other modellers work areas. There's some good ideas out there.

Cheers

Well, I'll tell ya. The workspace doesn't make the modeler. I've seen work that comes off of a kitchen table setup that's fantastic. Those of us who have elaborate workbenches and an acre of space, don't have any sort of monopoly on award-winning work, by any means. Heck, I can't remember who it was, but, he worked (is working?) out of a very cramped closet. If you do have the luck to set up an awesome bench, those little drawers will, most definately, come in handy. Ziplock bags and a shoebox or two do the same thing. It's just a matter of preferance.

Cuhail

I am on the multidrawer cabinet bandwagon myself, that and two and four drawer filing cabinets. But it is sort of whatever floats your boat as space and size of collection permits.

Th mulit-drawer boxes work well for me, easily labeled and organized. milvehfan

I also use a multi-drawer parts bin for basic items such as helmets, rifles, bedrolls, canteens, etc. The spare parts left over from a particular kit I place in a zip closure bag along with the kit information cut off of the box the kit came in. That way I can find the parts a lot easier. I then store the bags in an old computer paper box.

HARV