Guys,
How do you keep your spares?
In the early days I used to cut them out and mix them all up in a box including the spare unused decals.
Now...
I usually cut them out from the sprue and bag them with a label.
As for decals, they get bagged too and put in a box.

Comes in useful when I need to superdetail stuff or replace missing kit parts.

What about you?

well... i use to keep them back in the original box...

but when time goes, these boxes keep piling up. So, I throw them all to the biggest kit box.

I couldn't keep track with the spares I got right now. One day my project is to classify these spare parts and stuffs. I have a whole carton box of unfinished models as well..... counts as spare for me coz i know i won't revisit them.... unless I need them for damaged vehicles for diorama.

I keep the unused parts in a box and usable spruce in another box in case I need to use any of them for scratchbuilding.

It's all over the place but I know where they are... :lol: Decals are stored back into a zip lock bag and normal storage system

actually... how ar? Mine is all over the place and i couldn't remember where they are, and also forgotten that they even exist some times.

:D simple..me..go to runcit shop..buy those small plastic ( bungkus kuih ) a lot of sizes..so cheap..cut all those spares..put all of it in the plastic stapler or tape it and lable it with marker and put in a bigger box..problum solved :lol: ..decal put in 1 box :lol:

Me....

Have 4 biggish kit boxes, classified for AFV, Ship, Aircraft & Misc - any leftover parts are cut from sprue and chucked in there. Bit slow to find things, but I enjoy digging around in the junk, plus eventually i can memorise what i have :P

Decal are in airtight tupperware/ziplock

Good idea.....

hm... my spares would take days to categorize. A call for next project

Never crossed my mind to kept the spares together as all my work are OOB but it's a good idea to have a proper storage space just in case.

OOB build also would end up with alot of spare parts, especially if you worked on Dragon's recent kits. You throw them away?

These spare parts are what I'd call : Chicken rib bones --> eat it, no taste. Throw it, sayang.

just put back into the original box...

i used 3 empty kit boxes: the biggest one for the manuals, the other 2 are for decals, and spare/unused parts :)
.... but need to reorganize them again some day.

one box for german WW2...one box for modern...haha....decals in the same place in ziplock bags :)

as for me,

I kept my spare parts for each kit in one plastic bag, labelled. then I have different box for planes, afv, sci-fi, and cars.

as for decals,
all spares will be kept in a plastic bag and then to my clear folder.

Parts I keep in a small box (not much yet) and decals in an envelope, you never know when you may need them...

Be careful when you keep decals in envelopes. Malaysia's weather isn't too kind to us modellers and if kept too long, your decals may end up sticking to the paper. I found that out the hard way :(

Now I just cut out a small piece of tracing paper (the type used for baking cake) and lay them over (tagged with a celophene tape)