If you collect Games Workshop, Confrontation, Warmachine or any of the other high quality metal figures produced today for wargames then there is nothing worse than having you carefully painted miniatures and figures chipped and bent as you transport them for a game.

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The solution is to use a figure or army carry case to transport and store them. The main type of storage solution for figures uses foam inserts with cut out slots for your figures. The one that most people will have seen is the Games Workshop Figure Case produced for their Warhammer and Warhammer 40k games. This is a rigid hard plastic outer with foam inserts and a carrying handle. There are a number of other manufacturers of army carry cases out there though that should be considered. This is because they add extra features over the 'standard' Games Workshop option.