Horse Wagons and Storage

More wagon wheels.  The Imex Conestoga Wagon set is great for conversions.  The box of the Conestoga is perfect for a pontoon for a pontoon bridge.  That leaves the tentage to use for other wagons, or as canopies for building entrances.  The horses are large and great for artillery.  The figures are generic enough to work from the American Revolutionary War to World War One at least.  A quick head swap can help modify them to more modern troops.

I cut the wire mesh with wire cutters and kept all the little pieces.  In the past I have used them for various purposes requiring a short metal pin, often to do head swaps for 54mm figures.

New York Police Department, NYPD, van wagon, one horse type.

Here is the wire mesh, 1/2 inch mesh.  Any home improvement store should have it.  This piece has lasted over 10 years.

Most of my vehicles are stored in underbed storage boxes.  I line the box with bubble wrap so the vehicles don't slide around, and the bubble wrap is taped into place.  Each box holds about a battalion of tanks or other vehicles.  These are my two wargame tables each 40 x 7 feet long x wide and 40 inches tall, like a kitchen counter.  Each box is labelled on the end and sides with the nation, time period and specific contents in large letters.  Those on the left at this end of the storage are WWII Soviet Union vehicles and figures.  Next are Cold War Soviet Union and finally WWII German.  The right side is WWI, WWII US Army and at the far end a few boxes of JGSDF, Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces, and Danish Cold War Army, and two "fictional" African armies, one Zebra and the other Giraffe based on their camouflage types.  

These are two sided shelves with other armies and air forces and navies on the outsides of the tables.