Moving

The best packing material I have found are those pesky store plastic bags you get at the supermarket. You ball them up and fill the box to cushion and suspend the model. I find them better than the peanuts. And try to move them yourself. Good luck.

I've made several moves, and have lost models (or at least had severe damage to them) each time.  Cars seem to be the least prone to damage, and easiest to pack.  Ships are the worst, but you didn't mention those.  Planes seemed to be medium risk. A bit harder to pack than cars, a little more likely to damage, but most of my planes survived. Never had a tank, so don't know about them.  There are some soft foams you can wrap models in now, and the bubble wrap.  Wish that stuff were reasonably available when I had to do my moves.

I shattered about 3 builds in my past move a month ago. I might be able to fix it, but 1 is to an older model I might trash anyway.

Godspeed on the move Bob. Let me know when you land.

That's my nightmare for  when I retire and move also

Brad-thank you-great advice.

Stik-valid question-moving from WV to TN....appox 300 miles so it is a fair distance

I also have given thought of putting each model in its own gallon size zip-lock bag so at least the pieces wouldn't get lost.

The more I think about it the more I am considering to 'thinning out the herd' and pack a minimum of builds, giving me an excuse....err...reason to replace the ones left behind once the dust settles....or retirement, whichever comes first.

How far are you moving? Across town, state or country? The latter two require far more extensive packing. A simple cross town move can be done easily with minimal packing, just using simply cardboard trays and lot lots of back and forth trips. I know this all too well from moving twice across town in the past two years. If you have a distand move, the advice above is great. The soft foam packing materials from electronics and appliances work great for usiing in tupperware type bins. Be prepared for some breakage anyways, no matter have carefully packed and handled. Potholes and road surface conditions are impartial.

I've moved my stuff a few times over the years and the lessons I learned (sometimes the hard way) were:

1) move models yourself...in the car. Regardless of how may times FRAGILE is noted on the box, I've never met a mover (friend or professional) that grasped the level of fragility required.

2) motion inside the box is what kills...either kits or packing material

3) I start with a level of foam under the kit(s) - then foam pieces on each side of kit(s) to stop lateral movement.

4) use shallow boxes so that you can have a foam piece between top of each model and the lid to stop vertical movement.

5) do NOT use 'peanuts' or other loose filler material...they become shrapnel flying around in the box and guarantee that all antenna's/stowage/pitot tubes, etc. will break off.

For what it's worth, this 'method' saw no causalities during my last move 14 months ago.

Good luck with the move and the new job.

Cheers,