Blog | Current LEGO Sorting System

Hello everyone,

As a LEGO model builder, there is hardly anything more satisfying than having a well-organized and well-thought-out sorting system for all the different parts. Above all, this helps you to find the parts you need more quickly, preferably directly from the work area without having to get up. This means that the creative flow is not interrupted by the search for parts. Here you can see my current sorting system, which I would like to introduce to you in more detail below.

1. the sorting boxes: Allit VarioPlus Basic 32 & Allit VarioPlus Basic 15

At the heart of this sorting system are the VarioPlus Basic small parts magazines from Allit. These sorting boxes provide a robust basis for sorting parts. But the devil is in the detail; the boxes only contain enough dividers to subdivide about half of the drawers. Buying these separately was too expensive for me, so I 3D-printed them myself to get the maximum number of compartments.

2. the right section: basic building blocks

The right-hand section of the system contains basic components such as panels, tiles, clips and SNOT, sorted by color. In terms of the system, there is always a "base" column with slabs, tiles and a few smaller bricks at the top, and a secondary column with more specialized parts, SNOT, clips and slopes. White, light and dark gray and black each have both columns and trans-clear together with metallic parts are collected in one column. The remaining colors are a bit more complicated. Brown and tan as well as yellow and orange each have a basic column in pure color and a split column with all color tones in between, as well as two secondary columns each with the corresponding color tones. Red, green and blue each have a base column for the base color, one for the other tones and a secondary column in between. With this system, I was able to fit as many color tones as possible into a limited space and can therefore access a wide range of basic components very quickly without having to search for a long time.
At the top left of the small parts magazines are sorting boxes with Technic parts, sorted by part and category.

3. the left section: Special parts

On the left-hand side of the sorting system, more special parts are stored that no longer had room in the right-hand section or for which it would not have made sense to sort by color due to the smaller quantity. There are currently still some free drawers here to be prepared for new parts.

4. surplus stock

As the drawers of the sorting boxes only offer a limited amount of space for parts, I have to store the surplus of various parts separately. These are bagged and sorted by category in the large drawers and boxes under the table, so I can easily refill them if necessary. In addition, larger plates are ready to hand in the blue bins.

5. more special parts

I store parts that I need less frequently or that are simply too big for the small parts magazines in red bins in the cupboard opposite. These parts are also sorted so that they are ready to hand when needed.

This sorting system is the result of many hours of planning and optimization. As you can see in this post, it has gradually evolved. I will continue to work on the system in the future to optimize as many areas as possible.

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