photo etch/decal storage ideas

[stitchdup]

I've been having a sort out of my model stuff recently and it turns out i have a lot more pe and decals than I thought. I need to come up with a way to store them and initially my thoughts were a photo album or something similar but i'm concerned that would damage the decals on the plastic film. How do you store yours?

[Bills72sj]

I have had pretty good luck keeping them in ziplock baggies and storing them in a wooden recipe box in a drawer to keep them in the dark.

[SfanGoch]

I've been doing the same for years too. I have 45+ year old Microscale decals which are as fresh as the day that I first bought them.

[Mr mopar]

I always keep decals in a zip lock bag and out of sunlight that way they will be Fresh .

[Straightliner59]

I keep my photo-etch along with aftermarket resin, etc. in a drawer in a stackable plastic bin. Decals are in suspended file folders in my workbench (which is an old office desk).

[Nacho Z]

For decals, I bought a larger sized 3-ring binder and a bunch of document protectors, (those clear plastic sleeves). I drop my decals in those. My decals are kept in their original package along with that slick paper that comes with them. My hobby room is in the climate controlled basement so light exposure, temp. and humidity are not big concerns.

My PE is laid flat in a drawer.

[randx0]

I had a bunch of loose vintage decals that outgrew the cigar box they were in . 

I got some card stock , a non permanent gluestick, and acid free photo protectors glued the decals to the card stock cut the cardstock to size and put them in the protectors and those went in to a 3 ring binder . It works well but the weight of the entire package means the binders have to be stored laying down rather than upright library style . 

[Modelbuilder Mark]

I keep decals in zip lock bags, in a Rubbermaid drawer system. My Photo Etch is keep in the little parts bin drawers. 

[Exotics_Builder]

I separate my PE into categories and store them in these plastic storage boxes

Decals are separated out and stored in different plastic storage boxes

[carbuilder1950]

@stitchdup

Hi les.

For my photoetch, I have a small box box that I keep all my PE sets, sitting upright,  and cataloged by subject separators.

For decals, and small parts like window cranks, door handles, inside and out mirrors, and so on,  I used Zip lock bags, taped to page separators in a 3", 3-ring binder.

Dave