Stanley makes an affordable and stacking tool case (Stanley Sortmaster) that interlock together when stacked atop one another.

I find that two of these work as exceptional storage solutions. If you always carry them horizontally, you don't need much else to protect the figures (ie, I think pluck-foam or custom-cut foam is a bit expensive and excessive for miniatures as durable and light as these). I do use a little bit of foam stuffed between my Vics to keep them from sloshing around and breaking antennae, but that's about it. The cases are deep enough that fighters fit upgright on their stands, and the middle compartments easily fit four stands each. It will also accomdodate all ship models except the ISD, which is just a bit too large.

So, I use two of these Stanley cases (one Reb, one Imp) and the Core Set iself for everything else. The core set box has the cards, tokens, obstacles, movement tools, upgrade cards, and ISDs. It's a big stack to carry (two Stanley cases and a Core Set box), but it's one load. And if I know I only need one faction, it's half the stuff.

I saw something similar to those but unfortunately the only ones i could find were really small compartments so i opted not to. Im not a fan of ordering containers online as i ALWAYS misjudge the sizes and regret it lol

Especially for Xwing i would love that sort of thing since it has a ton of ~2" sized ships that can be a pain to transport around.

I have made trays in gatorfoam where I press fit each stand and then put each tray in one of those plastic organizers. It is really cheap to do, pretty optimized space wise and I didn't want to have the ship and the stand separated every time. I d post a photo but I'm not sure how ... If anybody is interested, just tell me how to upload photosand I ll be happy to

I love the Stanley Click and Connect. The big box on top is great for ISDs, MC80s, and range rulers and will even fit a Plano box full of tokens. It's cheap and expandable. I now have four of the expansion boxes, so it's become a little heavy, but it can hold my entire bloated collection. Almost everyone at my FLGS has these now and we all like them a lot. It might be a bit rough on painted ships (so far none of mine have chipped) but you could line it with foam if you were so inclined.

http://m.homedepot.com/p/Stanley-Click-N-Connect-Deep-Tool-Box-and-Organizer-STST19900/204728455

Battlefoam needs to hurry the hell up and release wave III-V trays .

I don't transport my fleet anymore.

I have decided that the game is too pretty to be packed away in a storage case. Everything is full-time assembled and on display. I only pack what I'm going to fly, and use a very small transport container for that.

Same here. And bringing only what you're going to put on the mat simply saves time during setup.

Tupperware!

My fleets all fit snuggly. One cardboard insert for dice, tokens etc. One cardboard insert for cards. Ships snuggly between.

Didnt work when i once ran medium ships at a tourney.

Battlefoam needs to hurry the hell up and release wave III-V trays .

I've never gotten a Wave tray; seems like they think you'll be buying a whole bunch of the same ship (least in X-wing).

Battlefoam needs to hurry the hell up and release wave III-V trays .

I've never gotten a Wave tray; seems like they think you'll be buying a whole bunch of the same ship (least in X-wing).

Same here, reason I never went with them for my X-wing collection and custom cut adds so much to the cost. I do not and will never own 4 Firesprays or 18 Y-Wings (they give you six slots and you can acutally fit 3 deep in a slot). I would understand if they went with the rule of 100 point squad in their design but they seem so random. Feldherr has the same issue to a smaller extent, but mine was "free" so I won't complain.

Guy at the FLGS had me look at the wave trays to see what i thought about their arrangement and i laughed at how bad some of them are. They like to give you multiple slots for ships that you never get multiples of and a TON of the same exact ship side by side. I dont get why they dont design the trays to fit atleast 1 of a wave (or 2 waves), squeeze whatever else they can, and just let people buy multiples. I'd rather have 2 trays because of repeats than 2 trays because "this tray doesnt have a slot for X ship, but this one does"

Throwing my hat out there for another mention towards Feldherr. Cheaper than battlefoam most days, even when you import/ship from Germany. Their layouts make a lot of sense (to me) and I have very little wasted space. Their customer support is also top notch.

I used to be big into battlefoam, but it always takes them months to ship their product and the person who runs the business is pretty much loathed by most stores/gaming establishments. It's decent product, but there are quite a few alternatives now.

I love my Battlefoam C4s for X-wing with custom foam, but the downside is cost... I too wish they made the foam trays to hold multiple waves and then allowed collectors of certain ships to customize. If Feldherr had a Wave 1 and 2 mini that held 1 of each large and medium, then two of each small ship and enough squadrons for the Starter plus 1 of each faction, I'd be sold. I just don't see buying 2 ISDs or Home Ones.....who designs these things; are they actually players? or know anything about the games?

I love my Battlefoam C4s for X-wing with custom foam, but the downside is cost... I too wish they made the foam trays to hold multiple waves and then allowed collectors of certain ships to customize. If Feldherr had a Wave 1 and 2 mini that held 1 of each large and medium, then two of each small ship and enough squadrons for the Starter plus 1 of each faction, I'd be sold. I just don't see buying 2 ISDs or Home Ones.....who designs these things; are they actually players? or know anything about the games?

Feldherr actually has started doing that to some extend: https://www.feldherr.net/hsfv035bo-foam-tray-for-star-wars-armada-wave-4-mc80-liberty-type-star-cruiser/a-57031/

Otherwise I'm one of those players that does have 2 x ISD and 2 x Home One, so it's a prefect fit for how I've been collecting. Your complaints are 100% valid though.

I'd love to see a foam company with a web-app that lets you put in what you want on a tray, and it mathematically figures out the best way to arrange it across however many trays it takes. The end result might be less than pretty, but very efficient on space.

I love my Battlefoam C4s for X-wing with custom foam, but the downside is cost... I too wish they made the foam trays to hold multiple waves and then allowed collectors of certain ships to customize. If Feldherr had a Wave 1 and 2 mini that held 1 of each large and medium, then two of each small ship and enough squadrons for the Starter plus 1 of each faction, I'd be sold. I just don't see buying 2 ISDs or Home Ones.....who designs these things; are they actually players? or know anything about the games?

I think it's a bit unfair to insinuate that they know nothing about games. Their entire business is foam for various miniature based games, but few games they cater to have the kind of meta-biased purchasing that Armada and X-wing does. They can't make predictions on how many someone is likely to buy right at release day. There's even a solid chance nobody there actually plays Armada.

When the Jumpmaster was the newest craze, Feldherr actually reached out to the community a bit and asked whether people wanted a tray that could hold one, two, or three. This is a big change from their usual large ship trays, which only ever held one, but the internet was awash with people saying they'd be running triple scout or Manaroo lists, and someone was listening. In the end, they made all three variants, because that's what people wanted.

Maybe what they need is simply more feedback from us. It's clear they're willing to listen, and I'm sure it'd result in even better products for us in the long run, so why not try? Rally the forum together and put some information their way with regard to what we want? For example, I'd really like a foam tray that holds squadrons vertically (although that might be just me...), and I'd be all for a single Interdictor tray. I could also see mixed ship trays being a popular thing; something like a single AF2 with a couple of small ship slots to cover corvettes or flotillas - things you'd likely see together anyway.

On 1/8/2017 at 7:17 PM, Arttemis said:

Side by side.

The cases are $20 each with a coupon at Harbor Freight, and the black ones come with 2" pluck foam and an egg crate foam topper:

http://harborfreight.com/18-in-x-6-in-x-13-in-silver-aluminum-case-69315.html

http://harborfreight.com/18-in-x-6-in-x-13-in-black-aluminum-case-69318.html

What are the dimensions of the foam inserts? I like these cases but would like to get more foam than what comes with it.

I got one of these fishing tackle boxes.

http://www.basspro.com/Plano-Guide-Series-4By-Rack-System-1374/product/74082/

The trays are good to put all the game pieces, fighters, and even all of the smaller base ships in. Then I got some Foam from a mattress store to put in the top and cut out shapes for the medium and big ships to go into. I then went out and got just a big empty tool box took more of that foam and put it in 2 layers in there and did same thing there just out the shapes etc and that gave me room to put in the bases etc.

I did a Pack 720 battlefoam with custom trays. I like how you can customize the trays to fit what you want. I put all my rebel stuff in one and spread my imp stuff to the other trays. Two trays are full of squadrons. Super lite to carry and I love the Molle system

Walmart sells Plano cases that are perfect. I have my entire collection in there, and there are multiple drawers/removable boxes that keeps ships, tokens, squads, etc all very well organized

On 1/12/2017 at 10:20 AM, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

Stanley makes an affordable and stacking tool case (Stanley Sortmaster) that interlock together when stacked atop one another.

I find that two of these work as exceptional storage solutions. If you always carry them horizontally, you don't need much else to protect the figures (ie, I think pluck-foam or custom-cut foam is a bit expensive and excessive for miniatures as durable and light as these). I do use a little bit of foam stuffed between my Vics to keep them from sloshing around and breaking antennae, but that's about it. The cases are deep enough that fighters fit upgright on their stands, and the middle compartments easily fit four stands each. It will also accomdodate all ship models except the ISD, which is just a bit too large.

So, I use two of these Stanley cases (one Reb, one Imp) and the Core Set iself for everything else. The core set box has the cards, tokens, obstacles, movement tools, upgrade cards, and ISDs. It's a big stack to carry (two Stanley cases and a Core Set box), but it's one load. And if I know I only need one faction, it's half the stuff.

I had PirateLab's cases and they work pretty well but my collection got too big.

I switched to the DeWalt equivalent of what you posted. $25 at Sears or Home Depot and they can take a beating. I'm going to line the containers with some moleskin (ask archery guys about it) to prevent damage.

On 05/01/2017 at 6:44 PM, Arttemis said:

Can't beat these:

http://sirwillibald.com/games/star-wars-armada/microhangars/

Wow that is really impressive, and the fact that the creator is offering these up for free is generous. I'm interested in storing my Armada fleet in these boxes but I don't have the printer or materials to create them. Can anyone recommend a supplier in Europe where I can buy them or even a printing store that could handle this job?

On seconds thoughts, do you think just printing them out on paper and sticking them to cardboard from cereal boxes would work well?

Thank you

25 minutes ago, Cybran said:

Wow that is really impressive, and the fact that the creator is offering these up for free is generous. I'm interested in storing my Armada fleet in these boxes but I don't have the printer or materials to create them. Can anyone recommend a supplier in Europe where I can buy them or even a printing store that could handle this job?

On seconds thoughts, do you think just printing them out on paper and sticking them to cardboard from cereal boxes would work well?

Thank you

I just bought 300gsm white card from amazon and printed it on my cheap canon 3600 printer. It struggles but manages. Probably cheaper than finding a company to print it for you!

7 minutes ago, Vae said:

I just bought 300gsm white card from amazon and printed it on my cheap canon 3600 printer. It struggles but manages. Probably cheaper than finding a company to print it for you!

That is awesome thank you.

Is it then as simple as downloading the pdfs/pngs and printing them on the a4 card? (Or are there any settings I need to be aware of?)

Also, any specific decent glue you would recommend?

Thanks

2 hours ago, Cybran said:

Is it then as simple as downloading the pdfs/pngs and printing them on the a4 card? (Or are there any settings I need to be aware of?)

You have to be a bit careful about scaling; make sure to print them at "Actual size" or equivalent, rather than fitting to the page. If you are sneaky you can be a bit more efficient by combining them (the squadron boxes, for example, can fit two to a page of A4).

I've been using the cheapest 200gsm card I could get on Amazon and a standard glue stick, and they seem to be holding up fine for now - sometimes stuff falls out of the gearboxes, but that may be due to me not cutting/scoring as neatly as I needed to.

7 hours ago, Grumbleduke said:

You have to be a bit careful about scaling; make sure to print them at "Actual size" or equivalent, rather than fitting to the page. If you are sneaky you can be a bit more efficient by combining them (the squadron boxes, for example, can fit two to a page of A4).

I've been using the cheapest 200gsm card I could get on Amazon and a standard glue stick, and they seem to be holding up fine for now - sometimes stuff falls out of the gearboxes, but that may be due to me not cutting/scoring as neatly as I needed to.

Great advice thank you. The money I save on storage/transport can be well used towards my fleet

I use 300 GSM white card and the boxes are pretty **** solid - Certainly give good protection when within a larger box. The gearboxes are also nice to keep all the stuff that the ship needs in one place. As Grumbleduke says make sure you print Actual Size otherwise it comes up slightly too small and the ships don't quite fit. Very frustrating when you only find out after having built it!

I print it, cut out the shapes and then score the back (I use a sharp small pair of scissors but craft knife would be best) of the shapes along the lines where I will be folding as it makes it fold a lot nicer. Then fold the box together and apply white PVA glue to the tabs which need it with a paintbrush as I stick it together.