I used to use any old small cardboard/cigar box but recently got some nice plastic boxes from staples....
The range of 'Really Useful Boxes' are handy, but the prices can get a bit expensive. We get chinese takeaway quite often, which is an infinite source of nice plastic containers...
:D
Didnt think of using those, plenty of them lying around the kitchen and they are stackable!
A4 Box files
I use the "thin" A4 box files that you can get from Staples.
They're great for small scale figs... :D
I store mine in 3 of these :
(http://www.krmulticase.co.uk/_wp_generated/wpc03000e5_0f.jpg)
(http://www.ukstrike.co.uk/images/case1.jpg)
(http://www.ukstrike.co.uk/images/case2.jpg)
(http://www.ukstrike.co.uk/images/case3.jpg)
LINK (http://www.krmulticase.co.uk/alumniumtriplekrmulticaseuk.html)
Worth the money when you have a big collection of well painted figures..
Dazza
Very nice! We see them at shows and I've always wondered if many people use them.
I'm a KR man myself. I have about a dozen of the cardboard boxes, and one Kaiser if I have to carry them around. Cardboard is nice, but they do suffer a bit when you use them often: the hinges get some wear. But still a perfect system, though not cheap.
Here is the economical (cheap) way to store your figures.
Take a 12 pack coke or beer box container and cut it open. Measure the footprint and heigth dimensions necessary for a box to fit your target troops (brigade sized) exactly. Measure and mark the dimensions on the coke box container. Cut out and tape the sides together. You now have a customized box which fits your troop dimensions exactly. Store all the smaller boxes in larger box-like a cat food box. Easy, costs nothing and does the job perfectly.
My figues are on steel bases so I store them in a4 box files with strips of magnetic tape along the bottom - very neat and resilient to accidents
A4 boxes - and then they get placed in the loft to be aired once or twice a year - sad init? spend nearly every evening painting then when one army is finished I start another - mad mad mad :o :-X :D
I use old PC videogame boxes to store my 10mm miniatures in.
All mine are in 4 glass cabinets (like the ones you see in a Games Workshop store), but if I need to travel with them, I use three plastic tool boxes I bought cheaply as a matching set from a hardware shop; filled with home made compartments, matchboxes, cigar boxes, etc.
I seldom travel to games however, most my friends come here to play games, because (a) Paula is a great cook and loves to make food at the mere suggestion of a num-nums break from the ever hungry crowd :D, and (b) after a life time wistfully wanting one, I finally made sure we have a house with a proper games room in it.
Steve
A4 box files but I will admit I am also looking at the really useful box range at Staples!