I NEED A CHEAP CASE

[hivefleetnephthys]

I recently bought a massive army on ebay, and that plus my current army brings my list to

2 Hive Tyrants
70 or so Termagants
25 or so Hormagaunt
4 Ripper swarm
16 Tyranid Warriors
3 Ravener
10 Gargoyles
Trygon
25 or so Genestealers
3 Broodlords
1 Carnifex
3 Hive Guard
1 Venomthrope
and 1 tervigon (converted from carnifex)
1 zoanthrope

So my question becomes, does anyone know any cheap cases, or cheap substitutes for carrying around guys?

I'd heard about gun cases, but I wasn't sure if 51" by 15" was big enough, or if eggshell casing was safe.

Any help at all would be great.

P.S. if this needs to be moved to a different catagory, please let me know, and how to do it without double posting, that would be great as well.

Thanks in advance

[gauntinator]

What a lot of people at my local store use are tackle boxes or tool boxes from hardware stores. They are usually cheap and have plenty of compartments and should be big enough. All you have to do is cut the foam to fit the compartments.

[hivefleetnephthys]

Where would you recommend That i get foam?

[yoritomo]

Go to Wal-Mart and get a couple of gun cases. 10 dollars will get you a four pistol case that will fit a good chunk of your models. I currently have 130 gaunts in a rifle case I picked up at Wal-Mart. It's got the eggshell foam which is Ok, but you really want to get the pre-cut customizable foam if you can.

[killercroc]

Yes, good things to get are Gun cases, tool boxes, tackle boxes, tubaware, etc. It is a lot cheaper than the actual Army Transports. Out of all the people who go to the local game place only me and 2 other guys have the actual Army Transports.

[infornography]

Tackle boxes work well and are very cheap, but tyranids are ... unfortunately shaped most of the time.

[orkblasta]

you can purchase the foam separately online and then use shoe boxes, old suit cases, even brief cases for transport, anything really that'll fit the foam.

this is what I'm doing and it works rather well.

cheers.

[Hunger]

I know you're after 'cheap', but I'm going to suggest Battlefoam + a homemade box. I built a huge plywood box for my IG, enough to contain eight 16" x 12" x 4" deep Battlefoam trays. Each tray can house five tanks, and with a bit of clever magnetisation I can split apart things like Basilisks and my Deathstrike to go in too. So far I have four full trays in there, which equates to about 3000 pts. My troopers travel in a large GW case (six infantry-sized trays containing 36 slots each).

The Battlefoam trays are fairly pricey, I think they are $30 US dollars, plus I had to get them shipped to the UK, but they are great. The box cost next to nothing - £5 worth of wood and a bunch of budget metal brackets and screws plus two hours work. Easily the best thing I have ever done - I always used to drop all my figures in a toolbox but they would get damaged frequently. I also used to carry them around in my lunch box next to my sandwiches when they were made of lead, but they made me ill so I stopped doing that.

[zephoid]

get packing foam.throw it in a box and layer it with metal models on the lowest layer of foam. Works well for me and nothing really gets broken.

[hivefleetnephthys]

Thanks for all the help guys seems I need to look at pistol cases and later when I have more money I can get the foam

[elackqu95]

Umm my friend plays IG he just bought some battlefoam and shoves it in a cardboard box, nothing has went wrong except one time when he left the boxes on the roof of his car and drove off, lulz, and all the models spilled into the street and a few fell into the sewer, and a leman russ was ran over by a car, but other then that he was okay.

Oh yeah, his trunk popped open on him one time and the box flew out while he was driving away, his car is trash so the trunk popped while he was driving, luckily no models were harmed that time.

[coredump]

for the Sabol transports, the foam is expensive enough that you kind of get the case for free.

[Stonewall]

Egg cartons work pretty good for small infantry.

[hive fleet pandora]

What happens if you live in australia? try buy a gun case and the FBI will come knocking at your door.

[Helonion]

Jul 13, 2011 23:02:22 GMT hive fleet pandora said:

What happens if you live in australia? try buy a gun case and the FBI will come knocking at your door.

Um.......that makes no sense....