Transporting Harpies

[nidnewbie]

Greetings to the Hive Mind:

I have magnetized the bases of my Nids and use Battlefoam Magna Racks to transport and store them. Now that I have a few games using our AoR behind me, I find I need to make some changes to my bag to accommodate all the big monsters. The particular thorn in my side is the fact I have 2 harpies in my list and that take up a butt ton of space.  I am considering using foam trays to carry them but can't find a single tray to carry 2 of them. I am also considering magnetizing the bodies and sticking them to a tray and the stands to another tray.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions!

[hivefleetkerrigan]

For my information, what's the wingspan and length of the harpies? What all is in the rest of your list? How big is your magna rack? ( I've got the 1520)

[gigasnail]

Harpies are a pain in the ass to transport. I made boxes with cut out foam inserts but it never worked as well as I liked, and all their claws and spikes were constantly catching and rubbing on the foam.

A better bet would be to get the big cases with metal trays so your magnetized bases will clip onto them. Wish I'd have done that to start with instead of the foam.

[niiai]

I do not think it helps. But could magnetising the wings help?

Anyway, I bought a new carry case because nid monsters is a problem for transport.

2 harpies sound like a lott! Good luck. They are so big.

[nidnewbie]

The wingspan looks to be about 11.5" and the length is about 9". My current army has a malanthrope, swarmlord, 9 warriors, 6 hive guard, 2 lictors, a dimachaeron, a barbed hierodule, a trygon prime, and the 2 harpies. I normally use the 1520. Tonight I will experiment with changing the heights of some of my racks to see if I can make it all fit without foam, I have serious doubts about this working.

I appreciate any insights you may offer!

[purestrain]

everything fits fine when you toss it in a box

[kopy]

I have used a toolbox with metal sheets at the bottom + magnets which worked really well.

My army has grown since then with 2 Hierodules and a Dimachaeron, awful models to transport.

I have moved to using 2-3 toolboxes which can be interconnected. One holds infantry + monsters up to a Carnifex/Zoanthrope.
The other fits plenty of the bigger monsters.

I'm talking about something like this: www.boxx-shop.de/media/image/product/4778/md/l-boxx-l-boxx-238-bosch-sortimo-l-boxx-238-gr3-limited-edition-makita-style-~4.jpg

[tomb]

Jan 27, 2022 23:12:46 GMT purestrain said:

everything fits fine when you toss it in a box

Agreed!

Honestly the best boxes for big Nids are either the plastic under bed boxes or the large stacking plastic boxes. Use a combination of the pillow inflated bubble packaging, bubble wrap and old plastic bags. 
All our models fit (box dependant Obs) the spikes bits don't catch on any thing that's firm enough to ping them off and the models will stay well packed if some what organically placed.

If you do want to spend more money then yes the pluck foam is possible but to fit Harpies you need to remove most of the foam from the biggest 'trays' available and use the loose pieces to support the model to avoid spikes bits attaching to said foam and pinging off.

Or if you want to get expensive and technical. Magnetise the flying stand base at both base and in the centre of the top cross bit. Now add a magnet to the flyer recessed into the cross bit on the model. This will provide a happy magnet snap every time you attach the flying stand base to the model, woot.

Anyhoo, use another smaller (magnetised) base and create a smaller (greenstuff/plasticard/ cut down flying stand) cross shape plus strong magnet so that the flyer can be transported using a steel sheet/ tool box/ magnetic tray all nicely magnetised but separate to its flying stand.

[jackshrapnel]

I have switched from battlefoam to a plastic tub with metal sheets (home hardware duct work flat sheets cut with tin snips) with a shelf added in it for more room. Magnetize everything with rare earth magnets (better pull) and pretty much nothing moves. the couple of layers gives me lots of room for my armies (even with a bunch of termagants). I have over a dozen armies including AOS so the foam thing was just getting far too expensive and downsized to an apartment so space is an option.

So now I just have one transport bin, and everything sits in display shelves until it's time to go to the FLGS.

[nidnewbie]

Thanks for all the excellent responses. For now I will keep using my magna racks for the rest of my stampede and a medium sized cardboard box with those plastic air bladders they use for shipping to take transport my harpies. I have the stands on their sides in the box and the bladders keep everything from moving around.

Cheers!

[xenith]

I magged the wings of mine so I can remove them. 4mm magnet and paint friction keeps them in place during games. Harpy gets wings removed and goes sideways into GW crusade case, wings go on top.