An army in a box

Some years ago, I visited the late Stuart Asquith at his home in the Cotswolds. When he retired and moved there, he did something that now makes a lot of sense to me; he created the 'army in a box' concept. He had a special cabinet constructed and allocated a draw in each to an army. Once that army had filled the draw, no further units or figures were added to it.

My Belle Époque collection is currently stored in an eleven-draw Really Useful Boxes tower unit. Its draws are slightly larger than A4 in size and have a removable sheet of magnetic sheet fixed to a thin sheet of plywood in their bottom.

© Really Useful Boxes.

I have recently discovered a problem with this storage ... it isn't very easy to lift the whole army out in one go. I then remembered Stuart's 'army in a box' and thought to myself that if I could find a suitable box that would fit into the draw, it could serve two purposes:

1. To enable me to lift an entire army out of the draw in one go and
2. To place a physical limit on the size of each of my Belle Époque armies.

Luckily, I had a number of A4-sized Weston Boxes close at hand, ...

© Weston Boxes.

... and I am now in the process of transferring each army into its new box ... which fits nicely into one of the draws in the Really Useful Boxes tower unit.

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PS. Some of the smaller armies fit into A5-sized Weston Boxes ... of which I also have a few available!