Storing your Dwarven Forge

[Arcarius2001]

Here is an idea I have not seen in the Forum.
I plan to store my walls upsidedown categorized by Tudor and Stone. But these will be the Windows stored downside-up and I will mark the Magnetic Walls with White or Lava Orange accross whole bottom. Anyway you can see the concept in this picture.

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Any thoughts?

I like it. Currently I keep my city walls grouped in clear plastic bins. I alternate the groups, one group placed top up, the next bottom up, etc. to keep similar pieces sorted together. That way I can just pull one piece to see what is in each group. Your way seems better, assuming I recall what each color designates.

[Rabbit Burner]

Wow that's is quite literally 'neat'

Very Nicely organised Arravis - do you know what sets you have stored in those pictures ?

[Arravis]

Thought you guys might appreciate the details of my storage setup. I use a
8-drawer Martha Stewart flats-file cabinet. Considering the price, its worked pretty well so far and I've been happy with it. It can hold a vast an unreasonable amount of Dwarven Forge.

For the small fiddly-bits I use Iris boxes with organizer trays and the other are cloth organizer that I can't recall where I got them.

Anyway, hopefully this is helpful for people still looking for storage solutions.

[GODofwar]

I have got spoilt. I had a huge DwF Wall - the South wall of my Kriegzimmer gaming room.


The Least Weasel
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, especially KS6

Google looked up 'Kriegzimmer gaming room' thinking it was some firm that designed and built custom gaming rooms and found pictures of Nerf guns on racks and this on Kickstarter:

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L. Weasel on June 17

#DW - yes, but I HAVE the map cases, and i don't need at least 1/3 of them, so for me its efficient. Besides, my Kriegzimmer (war room) has no floor space left to add more cabinets...

TLW
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, especially this one.
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Yet another reminder that "The Internet Never Forgets*"

*Except when Echelon tells it to.

The Least Weasel
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, especially KS6

[Rabbit Burner]

I have got spoilt. I had a huge DwF Wall - the South wall of my Kriegzimmer gaming room.


The Least Weasel
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, especially KS6

Google looked up 'Kriegzimmer gaming room' thinking it was some firm that designed and built custom gaming rooms and found pictures of Nerf guns on racks and this on Kickstarter:

"
L. Weasel on June 17

#DW - yes, but I HAVE the map cases, and i don't need at least 1/3 of them, so for me its efficient. Besides, my Kriegzimmer (war room) has no floor space left to add more cabinets...

TLW
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, especially this one.
"

[GODofwar]

I have got spoilt. I had a huge DwF Wall - the South wall of my Kriegzimmer gaming room. 8' of Swedish modular shelves holding plastic sliding drawers. But that meant stacking DwF, which sometimes made fast bulding difficult.

OTOH, the Wall was right next to my 5x10 flying table, so I didn't have futz around with moving pieces (or drawers).

Then I sold a bunch of wargames...and the plasticized maps for them vanished. I had space in my map case. Which is EXACTLY tall enough to old DwF pieces with enough to spare for safety.

Once I had displaced my CBS to the map case, I was sold. One layer. Easy to find everything. And one map case drawer ate ALL of my CBS...and I bought quite a bit.

So now I have resin Caverns..KS I...resin Dungeon...CBS Castle (I have enough to fill the drawer - 140 of the short passage wall pieces alone - they are also my backup dungeon tunnel pieces...CBS...

Castles and the KS II are in my 6-drawer wooden rolling rack (my Dad's old hand-made tool chest) so I can roll them over to the table. The map case is pretty close to Flying Table #1 and immedeaely available to Flying Table #2, so building is still fast and easy. And EVERYTHING except DwF accessories are now one-layer thick available.

My South wall now only has one of four Swedish shelf bays devoted to DwF (things like Chamber of Sorrows, or all my stairs in one drawer). I have specialty items like towers in blue tubs in the bottom layer - those I can pull out. MBS is there. It all works.

And ther est of the South wall is now all the other base building supplies: My paper Terraclips, of which I have a pile; my 15mm buildings, in rolling racks that come out fo the South wall when needed; my 100-150 10mm solid buildings; and my 15, 10 and 3mm terrain in separate rolling racks. All right there, thanks to moving the DwF to the darn map cases.

This has reduced my build time by 50% and the stowage time by 75%. HUGE when I have four campaigns going, total of eight days a month. And often have to improve on the fly when the damn players refuse to stay on my rails...which is most times (no, actually I hate campaigns on rails).

So after eighteen years here I actually have th KZ in final order. Now I just have to sell more wargames and free the North Wall mostly up for large terrain (the GeoHex is in the unused corner of the Military Library).

But one-layer DwF storage is much, much better- if you have the luxury. So darn fast I can't get used to it.

Oh - one more advantage. All my trees are now in just two spots.



The Least Weasel
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, especially KS6

[Fu-Man Chu]

As a warning, don't purchase these ArtBin Super Satchel Slim cases. I thought I had found the perfect storage solution with these, but when they came, they were just off enough to be very disappointing. The 2" height is for the exterior, and so it is just under 2" on the interior - which means that the standard DF pieces are just a little too tall for the lid to close and snap.

That was very sad as the quality is quite high (better than the Sterilite and Iris ones I also have).

https://www.artbin.com/super-satchel-sl ... 100ab.aspx

[WhiskeyandPeaches]

Is second @RobertsConley's storage suggestions. Those Sterlite containers are exactly what I'm using as well - very useful.

[zenmaster]

For the past three kickstarters I have used the following system to store my Dwarven forge pieces.

Target has a brand of snap together storage bins by Starlite. There are theses guys



Link
http://www.target.com/p/sterilite-stack ... edium_1_45

And a larger one at this link

http://www.target.com/p/sterilite-stack ... edium_1_38

Then you buy one of these guys


Which can be found at
http://www.sterilite.com/SelectProduct. ... &section=1

This allows you do this


And my order unboxed and placed in their respective storage bins.

I know this thread is from a couple years ago, but this post is INVALUABLE to me. Perfect for what I need. Thank you a thousand times!

[Kryzsko]

Everyone has different needs. Some people want their stuff neatly stacked and organized or put into furniture, but for me, with Dwarvenite (I keep my resin stuff neatly organized) I want bins that my son or I can just throw the stuff in. The less of a pain the stuff is to get out and put away the more I will use it. For this, I have fallen in love with 40 Qt Heafty containers. These are the perfect size. They are not so big that they can not be easily moved but each one holds a lot, and they stack well. One bin currently holds all my KS1 dungeons (5 sets a several add-ons), and one holds all my all my KS2 caverns (with the exception of my water sets, small decor, and passageways), about 7 sets and a bunch of add-ons. I also like that the bottom is translucent so you can tell what is in them (although I label them as well). They are also cheap, $9 each on Walmart.com with free shipping.