Top 7 Tips – Mini Figurines Storage And Organization

What are the best Miniature Painting Storage Tips and Advice?

How important is mini figurines storage and organization?

It’s said that miniature paintings are more than a hobby. They are art! It is a true. And proper figurines storage and organization will make you a true artist.

This can only be true when a miniature painter is well-organized. Stores his items well, and is generally motivated.

Miniature paints are known for focusing on details the artists placed on them. It takes everything to keep the mantra real.

Good storage and organization tips are not just good for your working space but also keep you motivated to work on your projects.

Are you a miniature artist?

This blog acts as your informant, helping you understand why good storage and organization tips are important.

We’ll share several tips that will help you stay motivated to work on your projects.

Why are good organizational and storage skills important?

The 5 reasons why good mini figurines storage and organization practices will help you:

• Storing your tools well helps you find them easily whenever you need them
• You can spend a lot of time looking for tools and projects at the expense of working on projects, and you certainly do not want this
• Clear working surfaces prevents unnecessary hazards that could harm you or cost you your items
• A clean working space encourages you to work and helps you stay motivated
• Proper storage and organization tips help you work efficiently, yet efficiency comes with satisfaction

Clearly, good storage and organization tips are the secret to efficiency, joy, and success in an artist’s miniature projects.

7 Tips to help you ensure your storage and organization are uptight:

1. Set a ‘MUST STAY CLEAN’ zone

One critical tip to ensuring good storage and organization in your workshop where you go to work on your miniature projects is to set a ‘MUST STAY CLEAN‘ zone and keep it clean.

This does not necessarily mean that it will always stay clean since when you are working on it, the area is left dirty. As such, you need to clean that zone every time you finish working on your projects.

It’s said that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop, and so is a dirty working space.

2. Set Up Your Projects as Soon as You Are Done with Them

The other tip that will help you stay well-organized in your miniature workshop is striving to set up any project you finish working on.

For instance, if you are working on some fine-detailed forest pain, hang it on your wall as soon as you are done. Seeing your finished projects motivates you to keep working and achieving more.

Also, you’re more likely to keep your working spaces clean when motivated than when you lack the morale to do anything.

3. Ensure Your Water Is Sheltered

The other thing that you must do to ensure you keep your workshop well-organized is to have your water sheltered all the time.

While there are many containers for keeping water sheltered, many people still opt for containers with sleek designs but do not necessarily guarantee to keep the water safe. As such, miniature artists spill water over surfaces a thousand times. This not only makes things messy but poses a trip and slide hazard.

Contrarily, sheltering your water using clear white containers with lids such as the Sguho closed containers, will clear the confusion of wondering what that is. Besides, it also helps the water not spill unnecessarily to create the hazards discussed above.

4.  Prioritize Your Brushes

It is not uncommon for a miniature artist’s brushes to increase in number as time unfolds.

As you keep working on miniature projects, your passion and zeal for the hobby increase, and you might find yourself expanding your brush inventory even without planning to. Also, some brushes become shaggy and of less use as time unfolds, and you might need to buy new ones, further expanding the brush catalog.

Having all the brushes in one container may make things hard when you want to find a particular in the middle of the avalanche. I have been using the Artistik Case which lets me sort them and store them safely.

You can choose the brushes that you enjoy using whether or not they are in good condition and place the separate ‘priority’ brushes on a container or rack from the rest of the brushes. When it’s time to loom for any of these brushes, you need not struggle to find them.

5. Dispose of What You No Longer Need and Focus on What You Like

As part of keeping your miniature workshop well-organized, you can get rid of what you no longer need but have them around. As you do so, focus on replacing them with what you like to keep you motivated in your projects.

Having tools that give you the excitement to work on your project each time is all you need to keep up the progress. For my paints, I use the Alkoo storage case which has been working out great for me.

6. Segregate Your Projects

As a miniature artist, it is not uncommon to start a project, leave it halfway, and focus on another one.

You might be going about your daily activities when you spot some artwork whose idea you want to replicate, probably in a slightly different version. As such, your workshop might be full of unfinished projects.

However, we recommend focusing on one project at a time and finishing up on it before moving to the next one. If you really have to stop working on projects temporarily, use clear kitchen tins to store the projects and label the containers.

Since you cannot use kitchen utensils to store paints and paint products, you need to buy separate tins for your projects.

7. Zip Your Bitz

Bitz is a very small component of miniature art that you need for things to work well.

They are like Lego Blocks, requiring an adequate organization for things not to go haywire. Miniature bitz vary in rarity, shapes, value, sizes, and they uniquely belong to different themes and schemes.

You can make your work easy by not mixing them. Rather, use clean bags to store them and zip the bags. Such a storage tip makes it easy to locate any bitz when you need it.

Conclusion

Miniature painting can be more than a hobby when you do things right.

In our other article, you will find more 3 more useful tips on to become an organized miniature painter.

Good organization and storage tips help you take no time finding what you need, allowing you to focus on your projects. Peer into this article to know the seven basic tips to ensure good storage and organization in your miniature workshop.

Bonus Tip

Check out some history behind Painting Figurines. It’s fascinating.

This article was partially inspired by Scarhandpainting.com 10 Tips to Keep Your Hobby Space Organized“