excellent! I've been having trouble organizing everything in my box. What did you use for the partitions? I've seen it in other games, but I never knew what it was. Is is some kind of Styrofoam?
That's great work. Don't you wish the publisher included an insert like that already? Wonder how much it adds to the cost to have a plastic insert added to a box.
I actually used regular foam board from a hobby shop. The board is 5mm thick and cost about $1.99 for a huge sheet. I figure this case cost me less than $0.50 and an hour to make. I used Elmer's craft glue, a sharp hobby knife, a metal ruler and a cutting pad. Since the box is so shallow, instead of placing a piece of the foam board on the bottom (like I did on my Conquest of the Empire box), I just used a piece of heavy card stock.
The actions look like they fit tight, but really they are very easy to pull out because they compress significantly.
Make me a geek gold offer and I might make you one and mail it.
mine doesnt look nearly as smooth and professinal as yours... but wow does it work great!! i wasnt into the idea of using this game at all out of fear of returning it to the box... FF is foolish for not just packing it this way in the begining
I made one yesterday and here are the dimensions I used (in inches):
long sides: 7 7/16 x 1 (qty 2) short sides and medium separator: 3 3/8 x 1 (qty 3) separator for tiles: 5 1/8 x 1 (qty 1) short compartment separator: 2 1/8 x 1 (qty 1) card holders: 3/4 x 1 (qty 2)
All of the pieces I made were 1 inch high. That's somewhere between 1/8 and 1/16 of an inch taller than they needed to be, but I did that for ease of measuring.
When I put it in the box it was just a hair larger than the box, but once I pushed it down it fit snugly and all of the bits fit in.
I used a heavy piece of card stock for the bottom. I didn't glue any of the pieces together, I just used round toothpick ends to hold it together while I test fitted it, and I decided it worked well enough that way that I wasn't going to bother gluing it. The only part I glued were the card holders to the medium separator and the short side.
The only modification I made was to forego the cardstock at the bottom. This allowed me to cut a piece of foamcore to the dimensions of the cards (less 1/8" from the full length) to place under them. This allows me to get the cards out without fuss.
Don't make me do it, Jim. Tell me what Tony Clifton's avatar is or Case Blue gets it!
One step further...or more likely one step too far.
A big thanks to jlamb for the dimensions on the foam-core board. I added another insert in the box to keep the remainder of the chips organized as shown in the second picture.
I also slightly changed the dimensions as to accommodate a tuck box.
This was my first time working with foam-core board. I usually use basswood. The foam-core board turned out to be easy to work with. Big piece of advice is to use a dual-blade foam-core-board knife. The two blades working together keep the cuts clean and not ragged like a single blade does.
