by ilujito
Hi all,Having finished my storage solution, I wanted to share it with the Descent community.
My design goals were:
- find a solution protecting all my miniatures for when they'll all be painted. (When will that actually be is another story
)- be able to store everything (base game, all extensions, all the Lieutenant packs, all the Hero and Monster packs , all Co-op adventures, the new campaign book, an additional dice pack, the RAOV & RAMV printed cards, a printed version of the CRRG ...)
- being able to setup a game as quickly as possible
- being able to carry the game if I want to play elsewhere than just home.
Images speaking louder than words, here is how I tried to meet those goals :
First, everything packed :
Let's now have a look at the base game box, containing all the cards and tokens.
The following images showing the box being opened, one layer after another :
To those wondering what that laminated page is on the top, I'll come to that in a minute
.Individual pictures of all the trays inside the box (I tried to organize them so that when I setup a game, I just have to take the 5 smaller one and just put them on the table) :
Note in the last picture that I created Dividers for everything (Classes, Monsters, Lieutenants, Overlord, Variants ...).
It does help a lot in speeding the setup.
In order to store the tiles, I used 2 binders :
I then used the method described in this thread to have all the tiles having their own space where they fit perfectly :
Considering the number of tiles, I also added some tabs to ease the search :
Now comes the tricky part : storing all the minis and being able to find them as fast as possible !
That's where the laminated page that I keep in the Core box comes into play. If you look back at the first picture, you'll notice that I added a tag (printed, laminated and attached with a small chain) to each case and each one of them having a different color.
The laminated page will list exactly where each and every minature is. For example, it will tell me that the Bandits are in the blue case, right side, middle tray.
Knowing that, I open my blue case :
As you can see, there's another laminated page in the case itself, showing me exactly where the miniature is.
(Note that already knowing from the first page which side and which tray the mini I'm looking for is in, it may not be super usefull during the setup. However, for puting everything back in the case when the game is finished it's really usefull in speeding up the process !)
Hereafter are the photos of all these pages (it will actually also show exactly how the minis are stored in the cases :
To finish, I stored all the rule books (base game, extensions, Hero and Monster pages stored in a small document binder (with no ring)), the new campaign book, Printed CRRG, Printed rules for variants (RAMV & ROAV) ...
All that also being listed on the laminated page stored in the Core Box.
And that is basically all !
If anyone of you is interested in doing the same, I copied all my files on this share.
You would find there :
- the details of the cases configuration (I mean the IDs of all the foam trays)
- PDF files for the Storage summary (the page in the Core box), the 4 pages in the cases, the Labels to attach to the cases, the Foamcore plans for the Core box, all the Dividers and the tabs for the tiles binders.
- Because all of this is in French, I also copied all my "working" files (Excel and Gimp files) so that if anyone wants to translate everything, it should be pretty easy. I also added the sketchup files for the plans in that same folder, just in case.
Cheers everyone !
ilu