Battle Kiwi’s new Stack System puts your dice, tokens, paints, and minis into one modular setup, so game night doesn’t mean hauling five different hobby boxes around.
Sometimes you get stuck bringing multiple containers to game night because no single one does the whole job. There’s the case with the army in it, the bag with the dice and tokens, the tin of objectives that’s somehow always buried at the bottom, and whatever extra pile the current ruleset decided we also need to bring this week.
But Battle Kiwi may have a better way now.
They call their solution S.T.A.C.K., the Strategic Tabletop Accessories Command Kit. The idea isn’t just to throw all that clutter into a nicer box, as these boxes, trays, and tools are all built to work together.
We’ve seen plenty of hobby storage call itself modular over the years, but Battle Kiwi takes that idea much further than swapping a couple of trays around.
- The take: the real value isn’t any single tray. It’s having the dice tray, paint rack, token storage, and mini carrier all built around the same footprint.
- Manufacturer: Battle Kiwi
- The evidence: roughly NZ$20,100 from 256 backers as of September 15, around 2,010% of a NZ$1,000 goal, on top of the 2024 Battle Box finishing at NZ$36,921 from 661 backers.
- What changes if we’re right: you’re budgeting for a platform you can keep adding Levels to over time, not just one finished storage box.
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This new Kickstarter campaign went live September 2 and runs through October 2, 2026. It’s the follow-up to the 3D printable Battle Box, which is still one of the better printable hobby storage projects we’ve covered.
Every piece of S.T.A.C.K. is a Level, and those Levels slide and click together in whatever order makes sense for what you’re doing that day. You don’t need screws, bolts, or glue for any of it, and there aren’t any fiddly connectors waiting to snap because you tightened something a little too far.
According to Battle Kiwi’s Kickstarter FAQ, every Level uses the same roughly 230mm x 150mm footprint. The layouts can change from Level to Level too, so one can handle your game aids, dice, and tokens while the rest of the stack carries minis, paints, or whatever else you’re bringing.
Battle Kiwi has been making this kind of stuff for a while, going back to the Legion Battle Box and trays, so S.T.A.C.K. isn’t coming from a company figuring out its first hobby-storage project either.
The Game Tools Make It More Than a Stack of Storage Trays
The game-night Levels are where S.T.A.C.K. does more than carry your stuff around. Battle Kiwi built the tabletop tools right into the Levels. There are spots for dice, tape measures, tokens, and objectives, plus measurement rulers and deployment markers.
The clicker dials may end up being one of the handier parts of the whole setup. They’re mechanical and hold their position without quietly resetting every time somebody leans across the table to reach for a dice tray.
The dial labels swap out too, so you’re not buying an expensive tracker that dies the second you change games. Battle Kiwi can also be set up for One Page Rules and indie systems directly with an OPR/Indie Level built around those interchangeable tags, and digital backers get blank dials and tags to label for whatever campaign rules, army logos, or weird custom nonsense they’re tracking.
Battle Kiwi says the system is designed to work with most games, with more game-specific Levels are planned after the campaign closes.
The Transporter and Painter Levels Take It Beyond Game Night
The Transporter Level comes in a few heights depending on what’s in it, and Battle Kiwi recommends lining it with metalized rubber and magnetizing your bases. Add those, and the same Level works as a magnetic transport case, so skirmish players can keep the warband and all the game-night accessories in the same stack. Optional vault bins and base spacers let that same module haul hobby supplies instead of models too when needed.
The Painter build is for everyone hobbying on a surface that has to turn back into a dinner table by 7 p.m. You get a brush holder with a built-in palette, a drybrush texture pad, paint storage, and an optional wet palette Level, with room to add more paint and transport sections if you want the whole stack to work as a portable painting station.
Having to clear an entire painting setup off the kitchen table every night gets old fast. So the Painter stack lets you pack most of it up together instead of rebuilding your hobby space every time.
Final Thoughts on the Miniature Carrying Case You Build Yourself
What works about S.T.A.C.K. is that you can change what you’re carrying without buying another case, another tray, or another pile of hobby storage.
If you’ve already got a printer, the digital pledge makes the most sense. But if you don’t, the physical pledges give you the same basic idea without adding more files to the pile of STLs you already swear you’ll print someday.
With the campaign sitting at roughly twenty times its goal and still open until October 2, apparently plenty of other hobbyists are tired of losing objective markers under the couch too.
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What do you think about Battle Kiwi’s S.T.A.C.K. as a miniature carrying case and game night organizer?
