Greeblie Organization!

[Rinny]

Maybe I'm just weird, but I love organizing and outfitting my modeling space as much as I love modeling in it! There's something very satisfying about having a space all to one's self to organize any way you see fit. I'm curious how people organize their greeblie collections, especially parts from other models. Do you just dump it all into a box? Do you have lots of little organizers and categorize things by shape? Do you leave model parts on the sprue or cut them from the sprue so you can see them more easily? Pictures welcome!

[Andrew Gorman]

Lots of little organizers here! I don't build anything out of the box so I usually break down any kits as soon as they come in. If I had the space I would keep everything in the original boxes, but I do not. One of the may compromises made to live in a city.

[Kylwell]

I have a dozen or so little drawers labeled as to what's in them. Roundy things, pointy things, really tiny things, flat plates, tubes, etc...

[Joseph C. Brown]

Ziplocks - lots and lots of ziplocks. Big, med., small; these are set into cardboard drink-can tray/boxes, which in turn are set into clear storage totes. Not a perfect solution, but it *does* cut down the amount of time spent on the endless parts hunts...

[Kylwell]

Oh and then there is Box.

Which has my PE, Adler's Nest, Wave, Bandai Builders parts, Kotobukiya, Hi-Q, Kandi Korp, Evergreen, & Plastruct bits. It's a lot of plastic & metal packed into a plastic file box.

[kalhen]

i currently have 4, 18 gallon storage bins of 1 gallon ziploc baggies full of parts. and 1 full of main hulls like the reliant saucer or the republic star destroyer hull. not to mention the half a dozen or so kit boxes that are for greeblies as well.

[Kylwell]

My desk collection

[publiusr]

I have a condition I call greeble-freeze.

I collect greebles, but then want an entire scratch-built hull to go along with perhaps one greeble. The tops of some champoo containers look to be good Romulan plasma weapons--but I need a whole hull that is worthy of that one bit.

I could never just glue any old greeble on styrene--there has to be old CRT housings to fit what I would like to do.

Anybody else feel that way?

[MillenniumFalsehood]

I have my kit parts sorted by type: aircraft, cars, armor, warships, sci-fi, Star Trek, Star Wars, miscellaneous. Each of these is subdivided into part types: armor - long bits, armor - medium bits, armor - small bits, armor - tread links, armor - clear bits, armor - figures, armor - hulls.

I also have boxes and boxes of big and small objects, like old toys and random plastic parts, as well as stock and sheet boxes.

[Tesral]

Organize...greeblies? You can do that?

[Andrew Gorman]

Indeed. Like things go with like. I like the cheap multi-compartment boxes with a space for tiny fins, big fins, little round stuff, oval things(not easy to find) etc. My only regret is the big box of "stuff to re-file" that builds up over a very brief time. Stillborn projects go into a ziploc in a perfect world.

[Kylwell]

...My only regret is the big box of "stuff to re-file" that builds up over a very brief time.

I hear that. There was a time when all my Lego was sorted & organized by shape (and some even by color). A decade later I've got 3 banker boxes of unsorted pieces. *sigh*

[Tesral]

...My only regret is the big box of "stuff to re-file" that builds up over a very brief time.

I hear that. There was a time when all my Lego was sorted & organized by shape (and some even by color). A decade later I've got 3 banker boxes of unsorted pieces. *sigh*

No stone to throw there. Lots of boxes. Bins to sort them too.

The greebles all end up in one drawer of the toolbox.

[Richard Baker]

I keep three boxes- large, real small and things that are just plain neat looking for a destiny.

[E-Dub]

Basically in a couple of cardboard boxes. The last time I did anything really greeblie intensive was my modification of the mystery ship.

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