FT: Transporting minis

Hey, here's a question for you FT gamers -
how do you transport/store your fleet?  I've
superglued my FT ships to their metal stands. They flop over if I carry them
in a box and I'm not too keen on laying them down sideways...

> Ted Arlauskas wrote:

I have a number of boxes (plastic, 24 slots) that I purchased at Orchard
Supply Hardware. The normal price is 20 Dollars, sometimes on sale for 10.
     Each slot is lined with 1/4 inch thick foam on four
sides (top, bottom, sides) the larger ships do not have room to move sideways.

Bye for now,

> John Leary wrote:

> I have a number of boxes (plastic, 24 slots) that I

I used a Sterilite plastic box that I purchased at K-Mart.  It's about
six inches deep. I had some foam left over from a Doskocil gun case (that I
replaced with foam cutouts for my 40K miniatures). I cut this to fit the box,
then cut round holes in it for the ship bases. The foam is just thick enough
so the bases "hang" in the holes and the ships rest on the foam. Then I put
another layer of foam over the top of the ships, and two strips of foam on top
of that. The lid locks down and prevents the ships from moving at all. It even
got knocked off a table once and landed upside down without a single casualty
to any of my minis. Best of all, it's compact but still manages to fit my
entire ESU fleet. It probably would work equally well for an FSE or NAC fleet,
although it probably wouldn't work too well for the new UN ships (if the SD
I've seen is any indication of their overall design scheme).

> Ted Arlauskas <ted@naxera.com> 12/21 2:32 am

A couple of weeks ago the local gaming store got the new
box/suitcase from Games Workshop. Inside there are three
foam layers of 4x9 compartments that you can fit smaller ships lying down
(metal bases). The width of the compartment is a little smaller than the size
of the base so it stays put. My FSE fleet with ships up to light cruisers
occupies 1 compartment; escort cruisers to battleships occupy 1.5 to 2. The
other capital ships are so wide that I had to cut out the bottom of one of the
foam layers. With some cutting to fit the ships they stay nice and secure in
place.

The case in itself is of thin/medium plastic. It has the GW eagle
logo on the front cover, along with the "GAMES WORKSHOP" text. These 2 facts
are by themselves almost enough to keep people from buying it. But I have
found it to be rather nice.

I'm waiting delivery of a NSL fleet so I'm not 100% sure how it
will work with the tall/thin NSL's.

Regards,

> On 20-Dec-99 at 20:37, Ted Arlauskas (ted@naxera.com) wrote:

Well, you're a bit late for what I currently do. Taken off a list suggestion
my FT minis and bases are seperate. I went to the hobby store and bought some
square brass tubing, the tubing on the ship fits inside the tubing attached to
the base. When I am done playing the two pieces come apart and go into a Plano
tackle box. One of the nice things is I only needed to make about a dozen
bases since I really don't expect to see more than this in a fleet.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to transport the big UN ship. I'm
basing it the same but those big crossed wings make things a bit more
difficult. Oh well, probably back to cutting foam. My FSE fleet was much
easier.:)

G'day guys,

I'm probably a bit late on this thread, been dragging the parents-in-law
around Tassie...;)

We transport our FT minis in egg boxes (not the cartons, but the boxes they
sell 36+ eggs in in Australia) surrounded with those styrofoam peanuts
(go to bookstores etc and they'll usually give you them for free as they have
tonnes of the stuff come in with every shipment). Packed this way our fleet
regularly travel around Hobart and have even gone on planes without damage.

All up the system has cost $4 (AU) a box;)

Merry Chrsitmas

Beth