How do you stash your stash!!!!

[fhvn4d]

So it occurred to me yesterday as I was adding yet another 5 tier shelf to the wall of unbuilt kits that I own, that I have never found a really good way to stash my stash and be able to easily see what I have! I changed it around from storing by type of subject to type of manufacturer yesterday and I am not sure what I like better.... here are a couple before and afters.

Before...





annd after arranging them into manufacturers....






What does everyone else do to stash the stash?

[dupes]

I find sorting by manufacturer makes more sense - box sizes tend to be similar that way and allow better/more efficient/sturdier stacks (Dragon!).

Of course, some of them have multiple box sizes which screws that system up completely (Trumpeter and Tamiya).

[deafpanzer]

Like Dupes, I sort by manufacturers due to same box size especially Dragon and Trumpeter kits.

[Tobi]

I sort after themes:

Aircraft,
Ship,
Civilian,
Wehrmacht,
Allied,
Soviet,
Modern,
Figures,
Houses,
Vegetation,
Aftermarket,
-->    Wheels
         Tracks
         Interiors
         Engines
         Guns
         Stowage
         PE... this I sort by manufacturer indeed and try to keep track with Excel!

Works for me, but I'm a chaotic character with good memory. I hardly buy anything double by accident, though it may have happened 2 or 3 times...       

[wbill76]

I mostly do the same thing as the others, it's all down to box size compatibility vs. the shelving space available! Wherever possible, I keep similar subjects together but that's secondary to the space efficiency question.

[Jeff aka Sandbox]

I have mine sorted by country the kit represents. Commonwealth armour in one section, US armor in another, IDF over here, aircraft up over here, a few Soviet kits over on the end of this shelf, down under this work bench 1/25 truck & construction equipment kits and in this dark corner, misc NATO kits. Oh, wait a minute, where have I stored the 1/24 car kits? I have collected mainly 1/35 and have re-arranged my storage/stash a couple of times. The aftermarket items I try to squeeze into next the kits. With approximately 150 kits and/or conversion kits, it works pretty well. And I keep everything on an Excel spreadsheet in an effort to avoid un-wanted duplications.
It's a sickness, I know, but I really don't want to consider the cure.

[dierk]

I was going to start a new thread, but think it broadly fits here too: spent the last however many days refurbishing actually finishing one of our storage rooms. This is what it looked like after filling the numerous gaps and holes - the Black Hole of Kalcutta:



Bare walls and plaster board - German crafsmanship at its best





And this is what it looks like now:







All of my stuff is soviet, Lend/Lease or trophy tanks (Beutepanzers) anyway, so organised mostly by box size. All AM stuff gets put in the respective kit boxes.