Running out of room for display purposes. I looked over my desk and saw 25-30 boxes of completed kits or partial stages. I sorted and went from 6 piles to the ceiling to 1. Then, an ingenious idea. Why am I keeping the boxes? Box art? I love the pictures. So, I emptied all the boxes of spare parts, cut up sprues and placed everything in a little plastic box I got at Target. Put all the unused decals in a second box. Now, 2 very organized boxes. What about the model boxes? Simple, borrowed the paper cutter at work. Carefully cut the tops of the boxes so I have boxart. Also, any pictures on the side that were completed models, I cut. What to do with a pile of boxart? I got sheet protectors, put each one carefully in the sheet protector and placed all of them in a large three ring binder. Now, I can sit and page through the box art and look at the cool pictures, I can actually frame some and put them on the wall and I have tremendous room now. Even the donor of half of my kids DNA, my wonderful wife thought it was a great idea and looked awesome.
So, all of those boxes? You may throw them away. I like the boxart, I saved it. Hope this helps those organization freaks. I guess this will be received as well as my recent post about using roof shingles as bases for planes. Update on that, they look awesome. My son, an art student in college, thought they provided great contrast to the models and the colors. So there, gottcha!