Saturday 5 December 2015

Imperial Assault: Card Boxes

Last week I put some work into my project for 'Santa Clause'. I found a really nice pack of four figures hopefully according to my counterpart's taste. During the last days I started painting them because they should be finished during the following week end be sent to the United Kingdom the week after. No problem for them to arrive before Christmas.

Besides that I worked on Imperial Assault. The games contains oodles of cards, tokens, board tiles and such stuff and it was time to get them sorted. Thus I made some cardboard boxes for the game:
But those boxes weren't the work of myself alone. Luckily some other geeks seem to have kept struggling with disarray in the Imperial Assault box and one of them prepared a set of templates for the prone tinkerer. He's calling himself 'Sir Willi' and is providing a great number of boxes for Imperial Assault, X-Wing, Armada and other games, most of them at least in German, English and French. Have a look at his blog to get an idea of his work. The templates are free and ready to print at home.

To make the boxes I used 240g cardboard. It proved to be thin enough to work properly with our inkjet printer but thick enough to ensure the needed stiffness for the boxes. Then I cut the templates with a sharp knife and a steel rules and glued them together with usual all-purpose adhesive. Really no big deal but afterwards I had some clean and tidy boxes to sort the different cards in.
Only the active cards of our current campaign are in a zip bag to have them ready for our next session. Altogether a simple and convincing solution in my opinion. Agreeing to this was our little one Anna who helped me to sort all the board tiles and the tokens. But especially the AT-ST caught her attention. Good girl!

That's it for now, Please don't forget to have a look at the Google+ community dedicated to 'Paint Table Saturday'.

Enjoy your weekend !

10 comments:

  1. What a great idea, very smart Stefan and the picture is adorable - I hope Anna didn't check to see if that AT-ST was edible! :D

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    1. Luckily Anna left the level of trying everthing finally.
      ;-)

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  2. Good Lord - and to think I start giving myself airs and graces when I put elastic bands around my cards rather than just dumping them in the box.

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  3. Wowsers! I bow down before your OCD powers Stefan. I thought I was an organisational jedi but I now realise I'm am simply a mere padwan...

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    1. OCD? Not obsessive–compulsive disorder, is it?

      Anyway I know your spread sheet power, Millsy. The force is strong in you.
      ;-)

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  4. Terrific idea and a much appreciated posting. Thanks :-)

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  5. Just saw this. I have saved a link to Sir Willi's site. I will print out some card boxes for X-Wing when I get home.

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