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How have you been spending the new year? In my apartment, it’s been all about that New Year’s cleaning. But since John and I have a large collection of anime, manga, figures, and toys, it’s no less geeky than anything else we do all year!
I’ve written a bunch about building Gundams, but the real question is how to maintain them afterward. With all those tiny pieces, they’re serious dust magnets, so at the very least, we give them a blast of canned air at least twice a year.
This year, one of my biggest accomplishments was downsizing. Ever since our post-Otakon gunpla building binge, I’ve just had a stack of model kits sitting in the corner of my bedroom, not adding anything to my life. I’d been hesitant to toss them out, however, because they still contained vital additional gunpla parts in case mine broke.
It dawned on me, however, that I could save serious space by keeping the pieces in labeled plastic bags instead. So I grabbed some painter’s tape and my trusty Tamiya tool set for breaking up the sprues, and got organizing.
Now all my gunpla parts fit in just one box for easier storage. I decided to save the Gundam Destiny box since it’s the largest and has the nicest art on the cover.
When I shared my organizing trick on Tumblr, one of my followers suggested that if people don’t want to get rid of the box art, they can cut the boxes up for more efficient storage. But since I live in a tiny three-room apartment, that just isn’t for me!
Having geeky hobbies that take up this much space calls for some serious otaku creativity. How do you store your fandom collections?
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