How to store Figures/People?

[Tom]

My layout has foam scenery, what I do to plant them (and have the option to move them later on) is to heat up thin piano wire with a candle, and shove the wire into the bottom of their little feet. Once the wire cools, I add a drop of ACC to the bottom of the foot and snip it off with about 1/4" of wire hanging out. To store them, I poke them into a scrap of foam and place that in an old Athearn or Roundhouse box. Cut the foam to the size and shape of the box itself, and they are all planted temporarily, standing up, and take up relatively little space until you have time to plant them on the layout. I do the same for trees, although I use a shoe box for that.