Maybe I'm overly worried about the mini's durability, but the Feldherr looks great and gives that extra peace of mind.

you are. I've been using plano in a duffle bag for years, back and forth to friends house or the LGS. The only damage my ships have seen is when I've knocked them off the table.

Now for something like Infinity or Bloodbowl, then I use foam. But X-Wing or Armada? they're not going to suffer any damage in a plastic cubby.

I'm a Battlefoam custom C4 kinda guy. They are super protective, have a binder on one side and hold two 1.5" custom trays for ships. They're awesome! (I have two....working on the point I'll need a third)

Still use this:

I like the Chessex Large figure cases. Admittedly, there are a handful of ships that won't fit (YV666, Ghost, et. al.), but it gets 95% of my collection settled (including the GR-75).

I use 4 plano boxes of varying sizes in a duffle and a backpack with my two binders. One binder is 2" and has all my upgrades in ultrapro 16 slot American card pages and the other is 4" and has my pilot cards, dial backs (I use dial upgrades) and pilot chits all organized.

I use a mixture of storage solutions. I have battlefoam for bulk storage as I have had cannons crack in plano style cases. That said I still use the small plano for tournaments. I also use sir willi's boxes for loose ships.

I love my feldherr. I used a Plano for a long time and I switched to the Feldherr and I've noticed a lot of benefits:

Reduced setup time. I keep most of the ships on their base with all the tiles and dials in the same square. During my weekly game I'm normally setup 10 mins before everyone else.

Adaptability. I bought the mini case as well so when I'm just playing my 100 pt list I only have to bring that. If I'm playing epic I bring the large bag.

But it is much more expensive and you have to wait a few month for them to make cutouts for the large base ships.

awesome, thanks for the replies!

I've been throwing all of my stuff in one of those cases i have lying around from when GW owned my soul

Personally I think that Plano is just fine and everything else it a bit of a luxury. If it something you can afford and you like the storage then get what you like.

I started out with Plano and thought it was great; I still do but as my collection grew so did my storage. I have enough for both sides to play a 400 point Epic game plus a decent showing of S&V ships. With the ships, bases, counters, tokens, 3D obstacles and asteroids that was just too much for a convenient Plano solution. My wife convinced me to switch to Battle Foam and I love it. I went with the custom cutouts and everything fits very well, including the 3D obstacles. Nothing gets banged even with the Epic Ships. It is pricey and some would say over kill but it is great. I transport my stuff to different LGS and such, and I want to keep my ships in good condition.

Battle Foam is my personal favorite but most of them will work.

I love Felder for ship storage. For tournaments, I use one of the Feldherr foam trays, whichever works for the ships I am flying and put all my dice/tokens in the empty slots. Makes moving between tables super quick.

I think you should stick with your current system. What's a few broken models here and there that a little glue can't handle?

Your storage has a lot going of it:

• Transparent
• Scalable
• Affordable
• TSA approved
• Works for other things too

I use KR multicase and I highly recommend them. We don't want our precious ships rattling around in a nasty old tacklebox, getting damaged from continuous disassembly and reassembly, do we? No, we don't. We want a solution where our ships can all be stored on their bases, to minimise the amount of fluffing around before and after a game and to minimise the amount of times we need to pull the ship off it's base.

I have a mini plus from feldherr and a maxi. The mini plus is perfectly suited for one to three tournament lists, while the maxi from your amazon link is for me mostly in use to store either my most common lists and bring them club evenings or to bring epic ships as well.

Personally I like to store my ships with base attached, so I can not recommend that specific set as it is coming with 2 35mm height trays for each for 10 generic small ships without base. That format would be ok to store tokens, but as feldherr offers a 35mm height plano in the same size … a plastic plano is a lot more useful to store small parts than foam.

Plano in Feldherr Half Size format.
https://www.feldherr.com/sortimentskasten-im-feldherr-half-size-format/a-52322/

The small ship with base foams are a 50mm height and are imo "da best" because they allow for basically battle ready storage of small ships, suprinsingly enough I still use not a single one of them, because most large ships need indeed specific foam for them and come with lots of generic small ship space to store with base. Here the example of the slave one:


As you can see there is plenty of space for other ships besides the Firespray and most collection will be balanced in a way that buying the fitting foams for your large ships will give you plenty of space for your small ships without wasting much space. So yeah, another vote for Feldherr, I love the concept of freedom in configuration, generic small ship compartments combined with perfectly fitting large base compartments. The balance is just right to have a good value for my money too as the foam is about 5% of the value of the ships when filled. If there is one bad thing about Feldherr than it is that the cardboard boxes to store larger collections at home are clearly overpriced. And I am not a fan of most of the pre-arranged bundles for x-wing and would recommend to order a costome bag suited exactly to your collection. If your collection fits per accident to one of the pre-mades go with them, but else I rather would order directly from Feldherr, which becomes even for north american customers a good deal once you reach orders of about $120. For Euro's ordering from Feldherr directly is nearly always a good deal because shipping is cheap for them.

Feldherr is ship specific type of solution thats why i don't like it. If you wanna carry whole collection in Feldherr you need to buy every foam they have. As for the sets you need to look around the net - both Feldherr site and 3rd parties can also sell custom sets of their products.

But i strongly discourage using Felherr as whole collection storage solution.

That is actually not true at all. They have plenty of different options, including generic x-wing foam and generic pick foam which suits basically everything.

If you can print onto card stock, I recommend using Sir Willi's printable storage boxes: http://sirwillibald.com/

It's just a bunch of little storage boxes that you print, cut out and glue together. I have about 30 ships, range rulers, tokens, dials, dice, etc. in a shoe box that I can carry in my backpack with a binder that holds my cards. At first it may seem overwhelming work to do all the ships in your sack, but aside from your zip-lock bag, it's probably the cheapest solution out there. Just print a new box as you get new ships.

Oh, and I have not had any damaged ships either.

Oh look, Plano has all the things that a 1 gallon bag has:

• Transparent
• Scalable
• Affordable
• TSA approved
• Works for other things too

Man I am really torn between the plano and felderr now. Felderr just looks more clean, but the cost is huge if I want to own 1 of every ship

Man I am really torn between the plano and felderr now. Felderr just looks more clean, but the cost is huge if I want to own 1 of every ship

If you plan to go for a big or even complete collection … Feldherr has some sales with decent discounts on their hard-cases. But I strongly recommend to ignore those 5% discount deals which they run currently, the deals are sometimes a good deal better than just 5%.

https://www.feldherr.net/feldherr-hard-cases/

If mobility is not your primary concern the cardboard boxes can drive the price down a for a good amount.

https://www.feldherr.net/feldherr-storage-boxes-1/storage-box-xl/

Lasty a hybrid solution can be as well something for you, combining planos and micro hangars with a Feldherr Bag. Not a fan of that last thing, but still valid, even when a little bit clumsy for the large base ships. At least if you need mobility for taking your lists to a store, club, tournament or other events.

But as others have said, battlefoam is super compact and super expensive, planos are cheap and a little rough, micro hangars require some time investment to assembler them and feldherr is in the middle, needs more space than battle foam, but is cheaper as well, very clean, but still expensive compared to micro hangars or a collection of decently sized planos. On the plus side, two customized filled hard cases should be enough to indeed take a complete x-wing collection and still have some spare room for doubles, triples and future releases of small ships. So basically you store more than $1200 worth of ships in those two hard cases which are cost $83 each.

https://www.feldherr.net/feldherr-hard-case-xl-individual-case-28-cm-full-size-foam/a-49558/

The choices are many, shoe boxes with micro hangars and feldherr are the two most common storage solutions in my local area and both work great.

Here is my storage solution: Stanley toolboxes with removable bins.

My Imperial box is the most complete. I bought some sheets of black craft foam of various thicknesses and cut out holes to hold the ships in their individual boxes. The guy who originally posted these boxes just used the vacuum-formed packaging the ships come in, but I did not like the look of that and it didn't hold them as securely as I liked...especially the ones I've re-painted. Honestly, the craft foam is probably overkill, as they don't really move around much once the lid is closed but I'm an organization freak. The craft foam lets me double layer the thinner ships (X-wings, Y-wings, Tie Strikers, etc.) In the Large ship box, I can even double stack the YT-1300s, and if I want to, I can throw the YT-1300 foam cradle into one of the smaller boxes. With all the little yellow bins, it makes it very easy to shift/sort ships around, and I can just pick out the ships I want to use when I finally go to my first tournament.

Oh look, Plano has all the things that a 1 gallon bag has:

• Transparent
• Scalable
• Affordable
• TSA approved
• Works for other things too

Which Plano models are those?

As far as tackle-box type cases go, it's pretty hard to beat these from Home Depot: http://m.homedepot.com/p/HDX-15-Compartment-Interlocking-Small-Parts-Organizer-Black-2-Pack-320034/204515485

You get 2 of them for less than $10, plus they hook together so you can keep adding on as your collection grows larger. Highly recommend. 5 Stars. Would buy again.

Brother, we may be in the minority on this one, but these are what I use as well. I bought two sets of them (4 boxes total) and use one for each faction, with the 4th box for the extra ships the other 3 cannot hold.

I could buy the fancy stuff, but much prefer spending the extra money on more ships.

Custom foam is expensive but it will never break a ship unless you cause it. Some of you guys kill me just pretty much tossing them in a box. I truly hope you don't carry them that way. Most of them have fragile pokey pieces that will snap right off. I have the big plano case with the 3 big pull out trays in the guts and 2 small ones, 1 on each side, but that just holds all the upgrade cards, mission stuff, tokens, manuever templates, pretty much everything but ships and fills it. The ships travel in foam or don't travel.

I really like the Plano 5231. Ships in the bottom and store tokens/man templates in top. I cut out the plastic mold the ship came in for safer storage. I've got 2 for all my small ships and use sirwillibald boxes for my larger ships and store in the core box. works great. Then I just use a small plastic tool box for going to league night. It fits all my items needed to play.

Here is my storage solution: Stanley toolboxes with removable bins.

My Imperial box is the most complete. I bought some sheets of black craft foam of various thicknesses and cut out holes to hold the ships in their individual boxes. The guy who originally posted these boxes just used the vacuum-formed packaging the ships come in, but I did not like the look of that and it didn't hold them as securely as I liked...especially the ones I've re-painted. Honestly, the craft foam is probably overkill, as they don't really move around much once the lid is closed but I'm an organization freak. The craft foam lets me double layer the thinner ships (X-wings, Y-wings, Tie Strikers, etc.) In the Large ship box, I can even double stack the YT-1300s, and if I want to, I can throw the YT-1300 foam cradle into one of the smaller boxes. With all the little yellow bins, it makes it very easy to shift/sort ships around, and I can just pick out the ships I want to use when I finally go to my first tournament.

I believe those are Stanley Tool boxes? How do you get more of the boxes? When I have seen these in the store you get a set of bins but they may not be the sizes you want and the only way I have seen to purchase more bins is to buy more boxes.

+1 Feldherr user here. I love mine. You also don't have to buy them by the bag. Once you get one bag of your size choosing, you can get most of the trays individually.

https://www.amazon.com/HSBH050BO-X-WING-Millennium-Falcon-Feldherr/dp/B00PW7E8ZO/ref=pd_sim_21_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00PW7E8ZO&pd_rd_r=CSPF2DNW1R7PKEP9GREG&pd_rd_w=LAzW1&pd_rd_wg=7yhF2&psc=1&refRID=CSPF2DNW1R7PKEP9GREG

Use the drop down menu to select which trays you want. You can also order directly from them, or wait the 1-2 months for the foam to hit amazon after ship release. I'm still waiting on the US Amazon release of the Lancer foam.