Inexpensive drone cases

Bad Santa · Monday at 12:33 AM

I'm not advertising for Harbor Freight!

This may only be pertinent to US folks.

When I bought my Mini 4 Pro, it came with a case. I wasn't impressed with the case so I bought a different one from Amazon.

Today I was at Harbor Freight and saw they had a case that was almost identical (outside) to the one I bought from Amazon. But at Harbor Freight it was $10 cheaper and right now there's a sale on them.
Their brand name is Apache. They have many different sizes. They look well made and durable.

If you're looking for a hard case for your drone, you might want to check them out at HF.

Again, I'm not advertising for HF. I'm just trying to pass along some info.

mavic3usa · Monday at 1:37 AM

Orange Apache case FTW with my Autel Evo II Pro when it first came out. Several heavy coats of orange plasti dip on the foam after cut outs for the drone and batteries and you have a winner!

MavicAir2Marc · Monday at 8:47 AM

I have the orange Apache case, I got it on sale and only paid like $25 for it. The one upgrade I did however was go to Case Builder and design my own foam insert that fit that case perfectly.

Nanny Ogg · Monday at 10:31 AM

I also have purchased several of the hard cases from Harbor Freight. The price is right and removing the foam so the drone fits is not difficult.

Q-F4av8r · 2025-07-05T09:22:54-0400

MavicAir2Marc said:
...go to Case Builder...

<head scratch> MyCaseBuilder, perhaps?

MavicAir2Marc · 2025-07-05T10:27:23-0400

Q-F4av8r said:
<head scratch> MyCaseBuilder, perhaps?

MyCaseBuilder Custom Foam - Pelican, SKB, Storm and others

If you need custom foam, you need MyCaseBuilder. Design your own custom foam case with our easy-to-use web application.

mycasebuilder.com

Bad Santa · 2025-07-05T14:35:08-0400

A ballpark cost of what this service would charge would be helpful.

EDIT: It looks like they have the price on the first page, calculated by your dimensions.
A 12X10X4 was around $90 for just foam

I can think of a lot of different ways to customize a drone case to allow everything needed to fly. The case I have is nice but adding in a spot for an SD card wallet, charger area and better accessory management would be awesome.

I ended up buying a SD wallet to fit the space in the case but now I have 2 SD wallets.

MavicAir2Marc · 2025-07-05T16:46:29-0400

Bad Santa said:
A ballpark cost of what this service would charge would be helpful.

EDIT: It looks like they have the price on the first page, calculated by your dimensions.
A 12X10X4 was around $90 for just foam

I can think of a lot of different ways to customize a drone case to allow everything needed to fly. The case I have is nice but adding in a spot for an SD card wallet, charger area and better accessory management would be awesome.

I ended up buying a SD wallet to fit the space in the case but now I have 2 SD wallets.

I think I paid $75 for mine but that was a couple of years ago. You can design it yourself to put what you want in it. I had drone (air 2S),4 batteries, controller (with the slots so I don't have to remove the sticks) and a slot for my iPad Mini. After the case being under $25 on sale, I was all in for just about $100. I have the larger Apache case (4800) for my camera 2 lenses, and sound recorder butI'm still using the pick n pull foam for that one.