Sunday, 28 February 2010

BigRedBat's War Cabinet

One of the younger scions of the BigRedBat clan has laid claim to the room where I've traditionally stored my legions.  Accordingly, as part of a negotiated withdrawl, it was agreed that I could put a storage cabinet in another room.  I found a fantastic one at Ikea; the Bergsbo.  My son and I assembled it today, and this afternoon my troops marched to their new home with banners flying and flautists piping.

What excites me about the Bergsbo cabinet is that has the perfect dimensions to take an unfeasibly large number of the "Really Useful Boxes" in which I store all my minis., with almost no wasted space.  It is deep, and all the shelves are adjustable.   In (and above) the cabinet are no less than 68 storage boxes, of various sizes, containing roughly 3000 28mm miniatures and almost all my terrain.

Another benefit of the new cabinet is that it is now a lot easier to access the miniatures I need for a particular game, and I can see the labels on the end of the boxes.  Oh happy day!
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12 comments:

  1. Hetairoi28 February 2010 at 09:38

    Ooooh...

    8-o

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  2. BigLee28 February 2010 at 11:00

    That’s...frighteningly organised. In truth I'm envious. My stuff is is boxes of various sizes all round the house. Now and again I have a 'tidy up' to placate the good wife but its a lost cause... until the kids leave home. Then I get a spare room!

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  3. BigRedBat28 February 2010 at 11:38

    Hi BigLee, will the kids ever leave home, what with the credit crunch and all? May have some time to wait for that spare room!

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  4. Consul28 February 2010 at 11:45

    What became of the legion's original home?!

    I'm eventually going to need some of those boxes. I've worked out my display cabinet (3 shelves) only holds about 2500 WAB points of troops so that means my completed Macedonians and Romans will fill it all (and more!)

    Productive Sundays are my favourite kind of Sundays! Nice team work. I've just helped my Dad with the food shopping and I'm 20! I may never completely leave home...

    Consul.

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  5. BigRedBat28 February 2010 at 12:25

    Hi Consul, my middle son is taking the room formerly known as the "computer room"; in theory today, but the move is looking like a big job.

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  6. Secundus28 February 2010 at 14:51

    very nice.

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  7. Peeler28 February 2010 at 17:28

    Nice. Now where's that Ikea book... :-)

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  8. DeanM28 February 2010 at 20:08

    Wow; that is nice and the amazing thing is the storage boxes fit in there perfectly. I'm sure you pre-measured this before buying the cabinet - looks great. Dean

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  9. BigRedBat28 February 2010 at 21:09

    Hi Dean, yes I took a couple of boxes along to the store, and tried all the bookcases and cupboards until I found the one that worked!

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  10. Adelaide Gamer1 March 2010 at 09:41

    I know what i want for xmas! And BigLee, don't get too excited and throw out those boxes, the little buggers keep on coming back these days it seems lol.

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  11. Shaun1 March 2010 at 17:37

    Hi,

    which of the really useful boxes are they?

    A4? or A3?

    Ikea i have notice no longer do the wooden three drawer units... :(

    same price for a 2 drawer? i dont think so sonny jim!!!!

    cheers Shaun

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  12. BigRedBat1 March 2010 at 19:09

    Shaun; all sizes! But mostly A4 4L and 7L, with some A3 7L, and some big 18L boxes.

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