Building Your Travel Kit! What to Take and What to Leave at Home

Brent doing the lord’s work by low key reminding nerds to pack deodorant.

"$240 for the new battleforce? MUST HAVE!" "$30 to check a bag!?!? Am I made of money!?" - miniature hobbyists

I'm still laughing at that airport security stop, too good :)

My dad made me a big wooden unfolding hobby box that fits everything except my wet pallet and a non battery compressor. I love my Dad.

I found a collapsible dog dish at the dollar store, and it makes for a perfect flat-pack paint water cup.

"accidentally acquire some new minis". We need to all agree, as hobbyists, there is nothing accidental about it! 😁 Awesome list Brent - and I have learned today of a new use for toothbrushes. Thank you!❤

Best advice, be honest with yourself. My first trip home I brought laundry and books to study from. My older brother picked me up from the train and said never bring dirty laundry home again asked if I really thought I was going to get any studying done. I didn't do any studying and the laundry was a distraction from hanging out with my folks.

Using the clamp as a paint pot holder is genius! 😅

Having a Bad Day. Lo and Behold a Goober Vid. <3 The day gets a bit better.

I watched this video right before going on a small trip over the weekend. And thanks to this video I decided to take my hobbying with me, something I never would have considered doing before. And I just got back with almost all of my Ork boys cleaned up and assembled. It felt good. Thanks for such a great video.

As someone who has just started truck driving as a career i cant thank you enough for how useful this video will be. I dont have a lot of space in my truck for the hobbie but would like to be able to work on something while im out for 5 days at a time. Thanks for the awesome video. Cheers

I just wanna take a secound here and say thank you. I've listened to your videos for idk even know long probably sense the first 24 hour paint challenge would be my guess. Some how your videos have the ability to pull me out of any hobby rut and remind me to experience the joy in the craft. I get lost every once in a while with commissions/personal army painting and simply forget to take the opportunity to just have fun with a scheme, experiment, etc.. so again thank you for all that you do my friend.

What perfect timing on this video. I literally leave tomorrow for camp

I got a travel nail polish case to store my paints when I first started and didn't have dedicated space. It's now my travel case, able to hold paints, brushes, and models on a 40mm base.

Side note; that brush on primer is a godsend and would never be left out of a travel kit of mine. I ordered a single bottle to try it out awhile back, because I live in the water and wind is always a negative factor for me, and after using it once, I damn near cleaned Gnomish Bazaar out on my next order.

Harbor freight sells black and yellow nut and bolt sorters that can hold quite a few minis. They snap close and have handles

As someone who started the hobby just a few months back and travel for work almost every week, I found some great advice here! I currently use small box with compartments to store everything, but I think just a simple box without those would be better as some paint bottles don't fit well there and some brushes are too long as you demonstrated. I also learned the hard way that glue should be stored separately or inside a bag... Somehow the bottle had leaked and it managed to melt a few minis. Got really upset about that but I think I will try to paint those damaged bits as battle scars or something. As the space in my luggage is very limited due to all the tools I need for work, I use an LED headlamp. The lighting in hotel rooms are in fact terrible and once I had to move an armchair to the bathroom, which had the only decent lamp in the room :D Anyways I think it's a great hobby for someone who travels.

Wow that is a lot of gear. I went on holiday the other week with 5 paints (3 plus black and white), 3 brushes and 4 minis for 2 people to use. The main thing is prep, have your minis assembled, maybe even undercoated, so they can be painted straight away. A cup from the hotel and a saucer for a pallette and away you go 😊 one of those Doritos dip jars is great as a pallette (the lids are nice and wide) and water pot combo if you want something specific. The next challenge is surely how little you need to actually paint/hobby? 😉 PS you can totally use a tackle box for brushes, just drill a hole that bites into the edges of the dividers for your brushes to clip into

This video came out at a perfect time. I'm literally about to travel across continents to visit family for a while lol.

Was waiting for Goobs to randomly say "Crystal Meth" somewhere in his checklist.