So how do you ship an entire assembled and painted Epic Army?

I recently had to ship one and struggled alot to make sure all items were well protected, even then I was told some pieces were a bit bent.

Should I use Army Cases that are sold in game stores (with the foam)?
Should each vehicule be individually wrapped? what about troops?

Thanks for your help,

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Bubble wrap is a good key to protect painted minis. On my side when I ship a bunch of painted minis, I don't put them all in the big box. I use smaller boxes to compartment the minis (~size of the small E:40K infantery). Put some bubble wrap sheet all around the small box and put the infantery minis inside, add some bubble wrap over (there sould be some on each side of the box). You can make several layers .

For painted wehicules, bubble wrap each one and use some adhesive around to keep the proctection in place. If you have a lot of painted vehicules, separate them in small boxes and if there's too much room in the box, put some paper/bubble wrap to block the minis. Once all the small boxes of minis are done, put them all in a bigger box and one more time put some bubble wrap to avoid boxes from moving inside the big one. Less they can move, more they are protected.

I always consider that the post office employees will foot kick the box several time during the shipping so...I use a lot of protection and some strong (large brown one) adhesive to close the box. I have received a box that was closed by small transparent adhesive, adhesive did not suppport the shipping and when I opened the box, some minis were missing.

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Sorry Denis, I should have been clearer:
The wings on the titans were slightly bent, but easily fixed, and I have never received tank sized or larger minis in the post without some damage (some guns are always a little bent, etc...). I expect it and was happy to see that only the "might as well have been designed to break in shipping" eldar titans were harmed.

Thanks again for the army - it'll see its first outing this weekend.

alright thanks for the tips,
I'm trying to get this right,

(old_gamer: glad the army is getting some action!)

Alain

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My small addition:
Compartments are good, and inside it individual bubble.
But NEVER tape those individual rolls. Un-taping them risk damaging the model inside.

A horror story from Bartertowns really early days was when I recieved a 40k eldar army complete with dreadnaughts and all. All in pewter and nothing wrapped. NOTHING.
All was just poured into a box and sent over the Atlantic.
Yeah, most survived and nothing had broken apart from standard seals.
But it was a fright, a real horror to open that box.

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When I first saw title of thread my immediate thought was to reply, with a dropship!!

But I have received painted figures bought from ebay. The best method was either in old style figure cases or else individually wrapped in bubblewrap.

Anyway glad your army arrived safely. Happy gaming!!

Cheers

James

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wow, that's like individual "airbags" for each figure!

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