Hi Peter,
One way to store them is to pick up one of these. They come in different sizes and you can label the drawers with the kit name. Most also include drawer dividers and they aren't that expensive either.
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Certainly don’t throw them away — a couple of models down the line, you may just realise that those wheels or bombs or tow hooks you had left over from a previous model, would work well on the one you’re building now.How do other modellers organise and store all these leftover parts?
Sounds like pretty much exactly my method.What I normally do is to put the leftovers from a kit in the drawer. Sometimes you have to remove the larger parts from the sprues and trim the sprues with smaller parts on them to fit in. You can do it by scale too if you remember what kit the parts came from.
And that sounds like me too. Mine only go back to the ’80s, but you could point to a random part and with a great many of them, I can tell you hat kit they’re from and/or what they’re supposed to actually be (“shock dampener from an Esci BMP-1” etc.).It's odd, but I can remember what parts go to what kit without labeling them. I have parts stashed from the early 70's and know where and which kit they came from. I'm hopeless………….
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