My collection is quickly out growing the space I use to store it. I don't want to invest in battle foam but I need something to store my ships in. I am look for some tackle box containers for the small ships. What works for X wing? I need to be able to store the ships, bases and dials.

I use Plano tackleboxes. Go to ****'s Sporting Goods if you're in the US and wander around the fishing section.

Edit: hilarious. Go to Richard's sporting goods? Male genitalia sporting goods?

I use Plano tackleboxes. Go to ****'s Sporting Goods if you're in the US and wander around the fishing section.

Edit: hilarious. Go to Richard's sporting goods? Male genitalia sporting goods?

Ha! It's like one of those unnecessary censorship videos.

****'s Sporting Goods has it all. I love shopping at ****'s Sporting Goods! ****'s Sporting Goods was started by **** Stack in 1948; ****'s Sporting Goods now has locations in every state except Alaska, Hawaii, and Montana, so it should be pretty easy to find a ****'s Sporting Goods near you.

Edit : Actually, I just looked on ****'s Sporting Goods' website. They don't have my preferred Plano box, which is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Plano-Double-LockJaw-Organizer-5231-01/dp/B0063KDWV0

Dammit, ****'s!

Wow, let's make a popular name a profanity. I know a lot of Dicks.

Wow, let's make a popular name a profanity. I know a lot of Dicks.

How did yours not get censored?

Apparently. No issues with plurals.

Weird. I apologize if I offended anyone named Richard. I was trying to poke fun at the autocensor, not the name itself.

Wow, let's make a popular name a profanity. I know a lot of Dicks.

As do I, but most of them aren't named Richard.

For me the best storage option for ships is the original platic form (from the package). For big ships you can cut them to reduce unnecessary height

capitalization maybe? ****'s sporting goods is not ****'s sporting goods? nope - just plural.

Yup,
use these boxes as we all do. This is my collection, keep in mind that you should keep the large ship plastic wrapping because most of them (besides the Aggressor) won't fit.
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Plano trays are by far the most cost-effective storage method I have seen. I have ten - two for my son's collection, two each for Rebels, Empire and S&V, one for templates and tokens, and one with the Rebel Transport and the epic ship stuff. I also have one deeper tray with most of the large ships that don't fit in the others (or that I moved out to make more room). I keep them in a $40 rolling duffel bag that my wife sewed some Star Wars patches on.

I also have a binder with card sleeve pages for the pilot cards and an Ultimate Guard binder for the upgrade cards.

All in all its a fairly organized way to keep it all, and it travels fairly well. I have yet to have any ships damaged in transit in the Plano trays. About the only thing to watch is not letting anything get caught in the lid when it closes. Other than that I have no complaints whatsoever after three and a half years.

I use 3 of the Plano 5321; 1 for each faction. Tokens, templates and mission pieces in the top, ship tiles, bases, and dials in the bottom. I have a couple of 30 day pill containers that are just perfect for the number tombstones. An Ultra-Pro 9 pocket sideloader for Pilot cards and a couple of the Ultimate Guard mini-american sideloaders for the upgrade cards. The ships themselves I keep in the original plastic, but I cut off 2 opposite sides and the bottom as close as I can to the model.

Having said that, ship storage for a continually growing collection is tough. I currently have 2 totes and 3 core set boxes stuffed to the gills with plastic (96 small, 24 large and the four Epics) and I wince at all the wasted space, even with all the trimming. I just refuse to buy Battlefoam. I know a few guys that bought some foam and a foam cutter from hobby lobby and made their own, so I am seriously thinking about that route.

For what it's worth, this forum has seen several of these topics and I have yet to see a good universal answer for storage.

I've been using a different Plano for mine. Its a brown tackle box with sliding drawers instead of removable trays. I just prefer it.

****'s Sporting Goods has it all. I love shopping at ****'s Sporting Goods! ****'s Sporting Goods was started by **** Stack in 1948; ****'s Sporting Goods now has locations in every state except Alaska, Hawaii, and Montana, so it should be pretty easy to find a ****'s Sporting Goods near you.

Edit : Actually, I just looked on ****'s Sporting Goods' website. They don't have my preferred Plano box, which is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Plano-Double-LockJaw-Organizer-5231-01/dp/B0063KDWV0

Dammit, ****'s!

These come in Green and Black for Empire and Scum, btw. I have the blue double sided version of this too. All four boxes and I still need to store the Ghost/2 Decimators and Epic ships in another box for safe-keeping and lugging around.

These come in Green and Black for Empire and Scum, btw. I have the blue double sided version of this too. All four boxes and I still need to store the Ghost/2 Decimators and Epic ships in another box for safe-keeping and lugging around.

I can't find the green or black. Do you have a link?

Wow, let's make a popular name a profanity. I know a lot of Dicks.

As do I, but most of them aren't named Richard.

These come in Green and Black for Empire and Scum, btw. I have the blue double sided version of this too. All four boxes and I still need to store the Ghost/2 Decimators and Epic ships in another box for safe-keeping and lugging around.

I can't find the green or black. Do you have a link?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ECQPV6/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_8?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

I'm up to three double-sided blue Plano tackle boxes (plus a one-sided red one that I load out to take to tournaments), one per faction. Still some room for growth, though the large based ships take up a lot of space (and the Epics sit on a shelf).

I'm getting really triggered at all this use of Richard's nickname.

****'s Sporting Goods has it all. I love shopping at ****'s Sporting Goods! ****'s Sporting Goods was started by **** Stack in 1948; ****'s Sporting Goods now has locations in every state except Alaska, Hawaii, and Montana, so it should be pretty easy to find a ****'s Sporting Goods near you.

Edit : Actually, I just looked on ****'s Sporting Goods' website. They don't have my preferred Plano box, which is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Plano-Double-LockJaw-Organizer-5231-01/dp/B0063KDWV0

Dammit, ****'s!

No epic ships but I use a Pavano 735 storespecially holds everything I own

I also use the red tackle box shown in this thread, plus a few other things.

I printed this with my University's 3D printer:

And now, my set up looks like this:

That's just my FLGS storage... my ships are sitting on some egg-shell foam, neatly organized until I cut out slots within sheets of foam.

Here's half my collection:

MIght I recommend the Plano 1374. Look at my signiature to see a link with my solution. There are also some really good discussions on it. There is a guy who found a pizza bag on Amazon that is perfect, as well.