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Balloonacorn
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Cases

Post by Balloonacorn » Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:05 am

Anyone know where I can get a study yet inexpensive case, GW or otherwise?

I need to carry my 40k, Kill Team, and maybe an Underworlds or Warcry Band so it needs to be a decent size or two smaller cases.
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Re: Cases

Post by The Other Dave » Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:48 am

I really like KR Multicase (https://www.krmulticase.com/), especially their card cases. Cheap, plenty durable, and reasonable shipping, balanced out by a very very terrible website (which is in turn balanced out by good customer service - you can basically e-mail them and say "I want a case for this" and they'll set you up).

A place in Tokyo called Arrows has a similar case (and much cheaper shipping) (https://arrows-llc.com/webstore/product ... id=1030099), but it's really sized for 28mm rather than 32 - even my Unmade, which are regular old human-sized minis, are a tight fit, although you can always futz about with enlargening spaces and such.
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Re: Cases

Post by job » Tue Jan 07, 2020 2:57 pm

Also 100 yen shops. Making figure cases out of things you can find there is like a hobby within our hobby.
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Re: Cases

Post by The Other Dave » Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:15 pm

That's a good point - I think a lot of people underestimate the durability of standard paint on plastic minis. Heck, I have a whole goblin army I store by chucking everything in unit-separate ziplock bags. I wouldn't recommend it for models with lots of sticky-outy bits that can catch on each other, but really as long as the space you're putting the models in is small enough to keep them moving around too much you don't really need any padding at all.

Another relatively cheap option is to stick washers in the bases and line a cardboard or plastic box with a magnet sheet (you can get them at most office supply stores - for putting movable signs on whiteboard schedules and such). That'll hold down anything up to infantry size pretty solidly, depending on the strength of the magnet you get.
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Re: Cases

Post by Balloonacorn » Sun Jan 12, 2020 4:11 pm

Thank you for the great advice.

I ended up going to a DIY store, buying a cd case and 3 sections of foam.

I hope it works.
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