For the first time* since we moved house 2.5 years ago, the games are in shelves rather than piles of cardboard boxes. I wish the Kallax came in a 5x4 configuration (a 6x4 would have been fractionally too tall), but no matter – this is rather dramatically better than before!**
* For a whole bunch of reasons, including the fact that it’s taken us that long to get those stairs added and hence to know for sure how much space we’re dealing with underneath.
** Even if I don’t know exactly what to do with the large number of very small boxes, but this feels like a decent first-pass.
(Edit: replaced original photo with a clearer one.)
My collection as a whole is nowhere near qualifying for this topic, but i do have a stack of Lidl mushroom baskets which work quite well for small stuff. From mrmory, perhaps 15×30cm base, × about 10cm high, with lugs for stacking.
Ha. The top box with the upside-down writing is the lid of the unlabelled box at the bottom. I simply had some things-in-progress sitting inside the lid and found I could slot it in like that. Earlier today I was looking at that cube thinking “oh damn… I’ve ended up ordering the other map pack for completeness, but I won’t have enough clearance in that cube to fit it with the rest” – before remembering that I’ve got tons of clearance as soon as I put that lid back on its box :).
Edit: Also, the way that the small expansion boxes slotted perfectly into that space at the side was extremely satisfying. It made me wonder whether they’d sized them specifically for a Kallax. OTOH those boxes are not exactly space-efficient… If I ever decide to ditch the inserts in favour of a more compact storage solution for the miniatures, I suspect I could fit everything* into the original box volume (like this, in fact (photo)).
* Excluding Dredd… that content might fit as well, but I wouldn’t ditch the Dredd box even if I could. Although I did re-home the Dark Judges expansion content in the main Dredd box, back when I didn’t have any of the original Wildlands at all.
Edit 2: I’d love it if the minis in my set looked like this but 17 hours by someone who clearly knows what they’re doing probably equates to at least 50 hours for me, and for a result which wouldn’t be nearly as good. I could practice on other things of course, and I suspect I’d enjoy the painting on some level, but it’s a time-sink I’ve always concluded that I’m better off not getting myself into…
Wow, the organization by color is amazing! But I worry about the left column of red and the center column of green. That’s a lot of weight on poor little Dungeon Petz and Legendary Encounters. Those must also be the “rarely play” columns, as I would hate to try to get something out of the bottom of those stacks.
Just kidding… sort of. Outside of it being board games, it is visually appealing. But as far as I’m concerned, it may as well be organized by the last letter of graphic designer’s childhood pet – this may have to do with the way that I recall and process colors or, rather, struggle to.
The box at top left is a placeholder for V-Commandos, which I need to check over and make sure I’ve got all the replaced bits and none of the pre-replacement ones in the main box.
Ooh Sky Galleons of Mars! A regret! Could never afford/justify the original set (though oddly have almost all the original Space 1889 run!) We played many mini battles with the Soldier’s Companion.
I’ve got the rule books, cards (everything that’s been released other than promo stuff and pre-Reborn cards, which are in a deck box in the top of the wardrobe), and tokens in the main box. I’ve just sleeved the Phoenixborn to act as dividers (though I ran out with the new Red Rains sets).
