Loose car storage? What do you use?
Ok, I'm new but have already amassed quite a pile of diecast cars. I have the packaged one stored by separated by continent in those big black and yellow bins but in testing for race builds I have a lot of loose cars lying around and they're kinda taking over.
So I was wondering, what do y'all recommend for loose car storage? Hoping for a closed container, something easy to organize but also something that keeps they safe from storage wear, etc.
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Discussion
JAMMER CASES!!!
Jo Anne Fabrics has them here in NW Washington
- Sweet! — Bent_Rod_Racing
- nice... I need about 20 of those lol! — G_ForceRacing
- Yeah, the Closest Joanns is 70+ miles away! Must come up with an excuse to go! — Bent_Rod_Racing
- Sweet there's one in North Bend, 20 miles away. Finally gonna get all those cars organized! — G_ForceRacing
These are my go-to, they appear similar to the jammer cases above. Around 10 bucks at hobby lobby and hold 48 cars, hard to beat. Although I do have cars in loose buckets as well. However, they tend to have horrible wheels and our castings. I don't plan on using.
www.hobbylobby.com/Crafts-Hobbies/Storage-Organization/Double-Sided-Multi-Craft-Carrier/p/80757229
- This is perfect! Thanks! — Fat_Dad
- Ooh those are even better!Nice, thanks bro'! — G_ForceRacing
Five-gallon buckets with lids. Easy to stack and store, not too heavy to move. As for sorting them out, you put your American/muscle cars in one, fantasy in another, trucks, JDM, exotics/modern cars, then have a bucket or two for the wheel donors ...... I'm currently working on Bucket #17
Stopped at Johanne Fabric today and FYI these Creative Options storage cases are half off til Dec 2nd:
- Hobby Lobby has these for $9.99. — BadWoolRacing
- Great tip BadWoolRacing - don't even need the sale then! — Fat_Dad
- I'm getting four of these for Christmas!! Will finally organize my Leno collection lol! — G_ForceRacing
- wow... thats alot of cars! — Stoopid_Fish_Racing
- that looks like my method, 2-3 longer tubs of cars . and I bought some 6- car cases from doller tree. — Andguy201
- I bet they're heavy! — G_ForceRacing
- I like how the buckets say, "Do it Right" — X2Whiskey
My 'front line' racers are stored in a 32 car "convention case". All of my "prime" vehicles are kept in Hot Cases* w/foam inserts...I currently have 5 of them almost completely filled. I also have 6 Jammers cases for expansion room. Then I have an old metal drawer set that used to hold hardware (nuts, bolts, screws, ect) that I converted to store loose cars...it holds almost 300 cars.
I keep all my loose cars in a big tub bucket, all my modded cars I keep in a separate wall holder in my room. You can honestly put the cars in buckets and call it a day if you wanted.