Storage issues

[pacarat]

Doing a major reorg of the hobby room over the past week. Relocated the map cases, Alex units, workbench, wire shelves, assorted storage racks, etc. Opened up the room so I now have space for the two 4'x6' tables, plus a new oval 64"x48" pedestal dining table (spouse wanted extra Ethan Allen chairs from a dining set firesaled on Craigslist which match our current set, so I offered a storage location for the redundant table...)

Now that I have the structures in place I have to reorganize most everything that was on those shelves.

It is amazing how entropy works...

[GODofwar]

Congrats GoW.
I think it will take another decade here.

Took me 40 years.

TLW

[William]

Congrats GoW.
I think it will take another decade here.

[GODofwar]

Thank the lords I finally got reorganized.

Storing DwF in sterilite was just too difficult to use in practice. I had to dig for things, and the drawers when full of heavy DwF stuff tended to tip.

My KZ (war room) has a south wall with Swedish wood adjustable shelving. On that goes sterilite-type drawers. I decided to use that only for 'specialty' DwF items (like Chamber of Sorrows) or 'accessory pieces (ALL my stairs go there, except the curved Castle stairs).

That enabled me to make the leap to storing all my DwF main collections (caverns, dungeons, City Builder and City Builder Castles) in flat map cases. I was amazed at how much fit...all my KS dungeons fit in one 44x28 drawer, for example.

Many small accessories go in the top drawer of a rolling wooden rack, and the Castles and KS caverns all go in the rest (I can roll this right over to my flying game tables). I find I have cut build time by 50% and restorage time by more...everything is in flat, open storage sight.

I have also been able to make the south wall entirely scenery buildings, from the DwF accessories to the paper 25mm rooms to the plastic 15mm buildings.

Much, much better.


The Least Weasel
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, except KS5

[zenako]

The glory of hexmaps, and assuming the dwarves are orgainized out the wazoo. Phalanx defenses against Orc hordes render them tough nuts to crack.

[Rabbit Burner]

Nice

Some interesting formations in the Dwarven battle lines.

[zenako]

Don't get me wrong I still have a few of each, but when you end up with 6+ of each of those big dudes take up a lot of room. Was happy to get a decent price for them and send them to new homes. Combined with all the giants I have from all the other DDM and Pathfinder sets, I got a dang lot of giants (and ogres and trolls and more).

For example this was taken many years ago when I just playing around with Orcs and Dwarves having a battle. A few of the older giants sneak into the Orc side. That was from over a decade ago...

[unclebilly]

Oooo! I see what looks to be a couple of cases worth of Monster Menagerie III on those shelves. Fortunately for me I was able to offload/resell a lot of those Huge Giants. They take up a lot of room and I find it very unlikely i will ever need more than a small handful of them.

Gonna have to check out the scrapbook shelving next time I am shopping for stuff like that. I just have all my DF so far in a large 10drawer metal rolling tool chest (with a nice hardwood top) since that puppy can take the weight and not blink, each drawer is rated for 50-100 lbs of storage.

I have a weakness for giants. Being a big fan of the old D&D giant module G 1-3. That and with miniatures I always feel like better to have one or two to many of something than be one or two short when you need them.

[zenako]

Oooo! I see what looks to be a couple of cases worth of Monster Menagerie III on those shelves. Fortunately for me I was able to offload/resell a lot of those Huge Giants. They take up a lot of room and I find it very unlikely i will ever need more than a small handful of them.

Gonna have to check out the scrapbook shelving next time I am shopping for stuff like that. I just have all my DF so far in a large 10drawer metal rolling tool chest (with a nice hardwood top) since that puppy can take the weight and not blink, each drawer is rated for 50-100 lbs of storage.

[unclebilly]

Oh wow, you are too organized, how do you find anything in there? It looks like you got an extra hellgate (but hard to tell in the pic). If you do, feel free to PM me if you need to generate some extra cash, I would love to add one to my collection without having to sacrifice my soul on the secondary market...

I just have one hell gate. The other things on that shelf are the large doors from Griffin Tamer Kickstarter.