My new army case

So, here it is...my brand new backpack from Feldherr.

The quality is good, it comes with a 5 year warranty and has a main compartment for the miniatures and a smaller one in the front.

Here you can see the size difference between the two compartments. The big one is roughly 27cm wide, 18 cm deep and 42 cm high. Or for those readers from outside of sensible countries using a metric system: 11x7x17 inches.

That's the front compartment. It has some pouches for templates, dices, tokens and the non-permanent pens you need for games like Warma-Hordes. The only drawback is that fitting in a full-sized hardcover book  makes the bag a bit front-loaded if you open the zipper from the main compartment. 

And that's the main compartment. It got a zipper poach in the front for a mobile phone or purse. Or the 7" tablet with inbuild phone-capacity I'm intending to buy next month. I read so much stuff on my 6 year old IBM thinkpad and I'm one of those guys who would rather send a mail than write SMS. Having a tablet would be boss.   

Finally the foam trays, the heart of the backpack. Right now the load-out is 1x10cm foam for big stuff like winged warbeasts, 3x6cm layers for warjacks, smaller beasts or cavalry models and 3x2,5cm layers for infantry models . I stored the pre-cut  trays you can see on the picture away (gonna use them for my Dark Eldar) and only kept the rastered pluck-foam ones. Reason for that is quite simple: The pre-cut foam is targeted at GW models, so the chambers are 25mm/1" wide. Warma-Hordes infantry uses 30mm bases, they won't fit. Luckily I still got those rastered trays from old army case, which use 14x14mm cubes you can pluck out and custom fit to a degree.  

Took me a few minutes with a scissor, cutting off one row and bevel the edges. On top of that I now have 3x6 instead of 4x4 chambers per tray.  And 54 models is a number big enough for my whole Cryx infantry or any sensible combination of my two WM/H armies. For example a hybrid infantry+jack Cryx force and a more Legion force with a focus on tons of beasts, some solos and 0-1 infantry units. If I go lightly on the Cryx infantry or play small-medium point games I could even fit in a Dystopian Wars fleet too.

The only stuff that gives me a headache with that backpack are my Dark Eldar, but that's something I want to address in tomorrows posting. The next purchase for that backpack is a small pluck-foam tray or two, which I'm gonna custom-fit for my Dystopian Wars fleet. The 14mm raster plucks are ideal for the small 1:1200 scale models Dystopian Wars uses.