About books and such

Welcome, traveller. Sit ye down and listen to a tale that will send shivers down your spine: for it is of woes known by all who dabble in the arts of miniatoors!

I won’t be able to keep this register up. Sorry. Or: you’re welcome.

I know the pile of shame/potential is perhaps the most well-known itch in that spot that you just can’t reach. But in my opinion there is a problem connected to the other end of a miniatures life, when they are finally painted: I never have enough space to display them all!

So, I just display some of them, while the rest is in a box or some other dark place, where it remains hidden until I remember I have them. Also, the number of dark places to hide my miniatures is also running out, so I needed to think up something!

You may remember my previous project, which was on Napoleonics. This added two whole armies (albeit 10mm) to be stored or displayed! Then I saw the cause of this project on the book shelf: War and Peace.

What if I could store the armies in empty books next to the book itself?

This is a very rough initial sketch. But the idea is to have a book cover, with a fake empty ‘page box’ inside it, in which I can put the minis.

Now, on the top left you can see a kind of sideways stack that I intend to use with the book. Each stack is supposed to contain a unit of minis stored upright, so that it all is compact enough to fit an army in a single book.

The idea is that each of these stacks contains one or more magnets, which can be attached to a metal place inside the book.

Here are the designs in Tinkercad for the various base sizes that my Napoleonic armies use. These are all the finished versions: I won’t bother you with the designs that didn’t quite work out. All that needs to be said that it took a little time to get the bases fit in nicely and stay put when you picked the thing up!

Below you can see the end result of these holders!

That is all for now: next post, I’ll continue with the faux book edge!