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I hate moving. Having said that, we moved all of the models last night, to the new house. A real PITA. I havent counted but I'm estimating somewhere in the area of 60 a/c with a spattering of armor and one ship. All of them fit in every inch of available horizontal space inside a Pontiac Transport with the rear seats removed. Only had a few injuries, broken antenna mostly. The while metal front strut of my F7F took a beating. The flying surfaces of an old 1/72 JU52 fell off. For the distance they when and in spite of the fact that one of the friends helping had no idea how to handle models I'd say the job went pretty smooth. I'll probably not spend more than an hour fixing stuff.But I hate moving.And I'm hoping that was my last move for many years, if not the very last. How do you folks move your built kits?
I used black packing foam blocks. Cut notches in it to craddle my planes, glued to the bottom of a box. I used very large boxes, so I used styrofoam as supports to add another layer of cardboard and planes. I think I had four layers per box. Out of four big boxes, moving from KS to MI, I only had to reglue one fuel tank, that was it!!!
My last move had its pitfalls as well, like the strap holding down the tarp covering the boxes in the open top trailer allowed the lid to a box to be sucked off as a semi met me along a stretch of road I was on. This caused a Tigercat and S-3 Viking inside to take flight. The Tigercat crashed tumbled and was a total write off. However the S-3 flew some distance and made a rather impressive landing losing a few of the more delicate parts but it was repairable.
Today when I transport models anywhere they go into those clear plastic totes with lids that LATCH closed. This allows me to stack them in the vehicle so I can get more in the given space.
Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt
http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/
"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."
For a close by move,that is the best way like you did, I just laid mine on the back of a mini-van and had no casulties.But anything far or out of state,thats whats worrying me,because I know when I retire in a few years i will have to deal with it.I'm so freaked that I am holding off on all ship building until after I move !!
Fermis,with the amount of planes you have,that must have been a nightmare just preparing them.You probably spend more time on the planes then the furniture.
I gave 'em away (about 40 in all, except one, my wife's favorite) to friends, museums, etc, but my move covered over 3200 miles, to another country - no way they would have survived the trip. As it stands, people still get to enjoy looking at 'em, they're in one piece, and I have room to start over.
Mike
"We have our own ammunition. It's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes pretty pictures....scares the hell outta people."
Fermis, yeah, it took about fifteen solid minutes for three guys to move all of them.
It certainly would have been nice to have had custom made containers to fit the planes, foam blocks securing everything and things made stackable in totes. But for 60+ kits? That's a lot of time and money, not to mention this move wasn't really planned. From the moment I thought of the idea to the movement of the first item was two weeks. Not nearly enough time to prep that many containers, do all the foot work for the move, work a full time job, spend weekends with my son, and work around friends schedules for the help.In hindsite I should have began accumulating containers and making custom moving boxes for the kits years ago, knowing I would be moving a few more times in the future. I suppose this is something I should start doing now because who knows what the future will bring. And if nothing else, I'll be able to safely store built kits and make room for new ones in the display case.
anthony2779 Fermis,with the amount of planes you have,that must have been a nightmare just preparing them.You probably spend more time on the planes then the furniture.
I spend a couple weeks worth of evenings packing things up. I had around a hundred or so. It was a lot of fun playing with my toys!!! I had em packed up a couple months before the move, and for a few months after, waiting for the basement to be finished off. I didn't mark any boxes whatsoever. It's like Christmas!!!
Here's how I done it! This is a much smaller box used for transporting to shows.
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