Re: Moving Ideas?
- From: Wolf Kirchmeir <wwolfkir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:23:32 -0400
George wrote:
Hi All,
I am moving to a new home and I am looking for ideas on how to pack the trains and especially structures. Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
George
Well, no matter how well you pack things, something will break, so be prepared. But you can prevent the smithereens syndrome. :-)
General rule: pack the model in a box which you pack in a larger box. Or several boxes within a larger box. Use plenty of bubble wrap and/or styrene popcorn and/or tissue paper. You can use newspapers to cushion the boxes inside a larger box, but avoid it for cushioning rolling stock and structures directly. To be effective, newsprint has to be packed quite tightly, which is not good for delicate details. The principle is that the model is well braced inside its own box, and that these boxes are well cushioned inside the larger box. A model that can move around inside its box will do so, and when it hits the side of the box, parts of it may break. But if the box it's in is cushioned, then that cushioning will absorb the shock slowly, so that breakage is almost entirely eliminated.
To pack a structure: Find a box that is larger than your structure in all directions, use a combination of bubble-wrap, tissue, pop corn, and box-board braces to pack the structure so that it doesn't move. Then find a box that's bigger than this box, and pack bubble pack or styrofoam popcorn all round the smaller box. You can obviously put several structure boxes inside a much larger box. Avoid packing a number of structures in one box - delicate details will certainly break if you do that. OTOH, if there are no delicate details, it's usually possible to pack two or more models in one box, just use an extra layer of bubble-wrap. The one-box per structure method reduces the chances of detail breakage to about 10 - 30%, still not good, but better than certainty.
Pack removable detail parts separately, and label both the main box and the detail parts box, else you will spend far too much time looking.
Good luck. .
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