The Difference Between Game Inserts and School Lunch Supplies

They sometimes cost as much as the game, and often require labors hours with X-ACTO knives, glue and frustrating assembly instructions, so what is the big deal with inserts? I have read the question “Why should I spend as much as the game for an insert when plastic baggies do the same thing?” thousands of times in comments on videos, blog posts, and product reviews all over the web. So, I wanted to explain why I see the value in purchasing additional stuff for an already expensive board game when sandwich bags could do the same thing.

Are You Looking For an Inexpensive Way to Handle a Miniature While Painting?

When painting miniatures, I hate it when my hands interfere with my ability to paint the miniature, and I hate it even more when I smudge, or smear the paint! Stop using lids, jars, baby food, wine corks, beer bottles, gun barrels or whatever you’ve been using, here is a FREE 3D model to print that doesn’t interfere and is useful for all your miniature painting!

FFG’s Warhammer Quest: ACG

A great dungeon crawl solo-playable game is a fantastic find during these times, and here is a great way to package the components and make setup a breeze.

Fallout: The Game Insert

With most of the components printed, I wanted to share some pictures of the work in process. So far, everything fits great, and there are components for all of the tokens, cards, and tiles for the base game. The New California expansion will need a few box updates to account for a few extra cards,

How To Package Hexagonal Tiles Using Mathmagic

If there is one comon thread amongst board games, it is that there is a board. However, not all boards are created equally. Some boards are all one peice, while other are modular and built either before or during the game. Modular game boards can be built using rectangular or irregular tiles similar to the

Fallout the Board Game Box Insert

After working with the improved minature boxes, I went to the game shelf for something to use as a test case, and landed square on Fallout, the board game. Fallout is fantastic implementation of the console game for the tabletop, and has a fun mechanic to add quest cards. As for fitting in the box,

Custom Minature Storage

Sure, you love your minatures. You’ve spent hours building, filing, priming, painting, and sealing your minis. You took care to base them thematically, and add just the right hilighting so they look awesome on the board. So what now? How can you protect them from damage beween plays, or on the way to game night?!?

A Quick Update on the Shadows of Brimstone Insert Build

The first card box for version 2 of the Shadows of Brimstone organizer is complete, and beautiful. The sleek blank on black look lets “your eyes just slide off it”.

Building Better Brimstone Boxes

It was back in 2017 that I first built an organizer for the game Shadows of Brimstone. It was shortly after spending weeks building and painting the miniatures that I realized that there was no feasible way to get the stuff back into the box. There was also no possible way that I was ever

Printing Better Boxes

Let’s just start this off by saying that I don’t consider myself an expert in all things 3D Printing. I may have even killed a printer with a failed print (a story for another time). But, I do know what seems to work for me to get reliable and high (enough) quality prints for organizers.