DIY Small World Organizer
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2014
- Figuring out how to bring all your expansions for Small World can be a real challenge. Today I'll walk you through how to make your very own foam core insert that will combine a bunch of them into a single box!
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Like games like Small World? Paul Mason has a craft to help you keep all those little bits contained: bit.ly/1tXECwH
What craft should Paul make next?
Excellent - I was planning to do something this for my King of Tokyo and LOTR Deck Building so glad for ideas to work with :)
Scott Engeman this is cool!
Pretty cool. We don't have Smallworld yet, but that looks like a handy way to work on sorting some of the DND board games we have.
WOOO I can make a custom organizer for my craft stuff too! Thanks for the idea!
You're welcome!
wow! that was a really niffy idea! and the part I like is very inexpensive because organizational trays and drawers can get pretty costly! FYI I found that foamboard a Dollar Store! which I was looking in a popular crafting store and those were almost $4 a sheet! Thanks!
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I've repurposed some boxes and now have condensed all of my Dominion expansions into three boxes. Everything is sorted alphabetically which make set up and clean up a breeze.
I'm looking forward to making my own inserts for several tabletop games. Thank for the inspiration!
And they turned out great! Thanks again for sharing :)
I've been working on foam core inserts for all of my tabletop games, Smallworld has been the hardest challenge as I do not own all of the expansions at the moment. But this video might help inspire what I want to build later on for it. I have made foam core inserts for Elder Sign and Betrayal at House on the Hill. Thanks a bunch, love the vids!
I haven't made any inserts yet but I've seriously considered it for Carcassonne. I have the German tin edition with River II and a LOT of the expansions. Doesn't all fit nicely in the tin anymore. Nice storage solution for Small World, I'll have to make this!
Yeah, carcassonne has a crazy amount of expansions :) An insert would definitely help sort some of them out.
I think a table top traveling bag would be a great craft to do in the future. One that can hold two board games with smaller pockets for smaller games like Zombie Dice, Resistance, and pockets for MTG decks and dice. Great craft and vlog Paul.
I've got a H2G2 towel bag on my TODO list. Might fit the bill :)
This is AWESOME! My Small World bits are always scattering all over the place.
No more flying skeletons flying all around the gaming closet. Thanks Paul!
***** Thanks! But I couldn't do it without help. This was a suggestion by one of the viewers. I can't actually remember who it was though .. and I forgot to write it down :(
How awesome! I've never made my own insert for a box, but I did buy a small box to store hooks and stuff for fishing and used that for all the pieces for the game "Elder Sign." That was really convenient.
Nice! I really enjoy Elder Sign.. it's like a Zombie dice on steroids :)
Paul Mason It's a great game. There was a point where I kept playing it every other day for 2 weeks.
Thank you!!! This makes me so happy! Shoving small world pieces into baggies was making me crazy.
I understand your frustration :)
I made a foamcore insert for King of Tokyo. Came out pretty well. Holds both expansions, including the extra dice :D
The only pic I can find right now is the first one I made. It's not as good as the second one. I'll email you some pics when I get home.
I also did one for Mascarade, but that one was really simple
I made an insert for King of Tokyo out of cardboard which I then wrapped in black duck tape. It worked pretty well but it is starting to get flimsy over time. I am going to have to redesign it with foam board. Hopefully I can get King of New York to fit in there when it comes out.
Cool. Good luck with the re-fit! Foam core is definitely the way to go with these. Much sturdier than cardboard :)
Paul, dude, it boggles my mind how you can even come up with things like this! You are much genius.
Very cool! I had never thought about making my own inserts. I need to try something similar for Agricola - right now I'm just using a crafting/beading/jewelry box to hold all the pieces, but it doesn't go in the box with the game, which can be a pain. And now I want to play Small World.
Good luck with that! If it goes well, you should do up your own video for it :)
Doing one for Imperial Assault right now.
This looks pretty good for a DIY build, if a little janky. Not a fan of how you have the tray balanced right on the race tiles at 3:59. I'd be worried about warping during storage, but I get that it's a balance between that and ease of access to those tiles and that increasing the width of the edges can find someone their happy medium. I feel that Days of Wonder did a pretty good job of providing a sorting solution for the bits in Smallworld and the Underground game set. I admit that Be Not Afraid is far from ideal for storing the expansions, but I got it for the extra races and it does what it says it's going to do, storage-wise. At least I didn't have to buy another Plano box for Smallworld, unlike some other games I could mention - I'm looking at you, Fantasy Flight.
Given how many race tiles are supporting the top tray, and the weight of the tiles up top, I find it pretty unlikely that they'll ever warp. But having only put it into my box just now.. I won't know for certain until much much later whether or not I'm wrong :)
I've done inserts for King of Tokyo, Smash Up, and the LotR LCG. I'm considering doing one for Lords of Waterdeep.
Molokov did a LoW insert. You can see it at the G&S forums: geekandsundry.com/forums/discussion/2275/nerdcrafting-pictures-post-them-here#Item_99
Nice! I'll need to pass this on to my friend. I've got Smallworld Underground so guess i'll need to make some alterations to the pattern.
This insert holds the main game as well as underground :)
Very nicely done sir. I did something similar for my Zombies!!! game from Twilight Creations, though I replaced the original box with a box file as it was not big enough for everything I had.
Cool! But it's sad when you have to lose the original box :(
I made some foam board inserts for Betrayal at House on the Hill (I kind of cheated with a bead organizer for the tokens), Pandemic, Settlers of Catan, and Agricola (really proud of this one as it was my first multi-layer project).
I have made inserts for Robinson Crusoe, Trajam, and a weird custom insert for pathfinder card game ot be used during game play.
Very cool :)
I've just started making my own inserts (made a real Frankenstein solution for 7 Wonders as my first venture that I already know I will redo down the line after I finish a few other game inserts), and Small World was an obvious venture. It's easily in my top 3 board games, but the expansions have beaten the dead horse so badly that it's no longer a horse; it's just a pile of dog food and glue. Too many, but I can't seem to stop buying them...
I'm not going to copy your solution exactly. Not leaving rooms for the boards is a deal breaker for me as I'd then have to find another box to store those in, and knowing me, I'd never have the correct board on hand. I'm also going to use a Plano instead of creating a token tray, mostly because I want to keep the base game and expansions separate. Plus, I always intended on keeping Underground in it's original box; all I am doing with that box is creating an insert that leaves room for Realms underneath. I never felt Underground and OG Small World blended well unless you were doing a big mega map variant with Tunnels and / or Realms. Not a criticism, just a personal preference.
However, this did really change my mind on a few things and gave me some inspiration to adjust my previous ideas. My previous ideas had been very symmetrical, as in everything started with 2 equal sized trays that I'd try to divy everything to, whereas your solution is a bit asymmetrical and frankly, makes a lot of sense. Plus I was seriously overdoing it with the trays; the way you did your dividers is simple but effective. I also just bought a Rabbet cutter.
Thanks so much for making these videos. Helps a ton.
Does hacking at foam trays to make them fit oddly shaped models count as "making your own game inserts?"
Because if so, then yes. Though certainly not as precisely or as calmly as you put your inserts together in this video.
I AM totally going to use this method to make some Zombiecide model trays though. After I paint the models, that is.
where did you get your rabbet cutter i cant seem to find one
haven't made inserts for my board games but i did make a chest out of ply wood for magic cards
I definitely will when i make a new on i do not have the original any more it was given to a friend for his birthday long ago
That small cuts (to connect crossed walls) are SOOOO hard to do without messing up the foamcore... how do you do it? At the beginning of the video they were already cut...
the game I get most of my expansions for is smash up. and they pride themselves on how the original box holds extra decks. problem is now they have too many expansions for the original box to hold,
I guess that's a good problem (for them) to have :)
Hit like before the video even started! Definitely need this...
Yes you do :)
This is brilliant! :D It drives me nuts when I have to carry around a bunch of little boxes and I LURVE this game (it's actually sitting in my car right now to be played tonight). lol Any plans to attend Gen Con this year?
I don't have any yet. It's possible, but not super likely.
I use a Plano box (3700 I think) to hold all my tokens except for gold, and I use a small 4 compartment Plano box to hold the gold. Both fit really well in the original box. The 3700 holds the first three race expansions. I have to keep the actual race and modifier boards in baggies though.
amzn.com/B003W0RPNA And then there's this, which is supposed to hold damn near everything you can buy for Small World: both games, Realms, all race expansions.
boardgamegeek.com/image/1584963/small-world link to one of the original posters
Nucleius I saw this when I was researching my vlog. Definitely looks like it would hold all the stuff, but it doesn't make for a very good craft though :)
That, and the only other thing I don't really like about it, is that you lose your original box, and I tend to like keeping my stuff as original as possible.
I agree about the box issue. If I have to find a solution to the stock insert, I try to keep the original box. So far, Small World is the only game I can't fit EVERYTHING in the box. I imagine Arkham Horror would have the same problem too.
Nucleius I came pretty close, but I couldn't get all 4 boards or the realms expansion in.
Hmm, I don't own enough tabletop games to use this tutorial for that specfically, but this gave me some brilliant inspiration for how to DIY organizer trays for other things - I don't normally ever work with craft foam like that so I would never have thought of this on my own!
It's my first time too.. but I'm hooked! I love the stuff :) My next vlog will use some, and I've got some plans for a main channel craft too!
What about settlers!? I hate the cards-everywhere-by-the-end-of-the-game situation that always happens.
Wow! That's awesome!
Thanks :)
Nice!
Thanks!
I need to do this for Last Night on Earth!
Good luck!
Hey 👍. I know this is probably outdated but do u have pattern for Lord of the rings jurneys in middle earth? Coz this is brilliant idea
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Thanks :) And this insert should hold underworld as well as well as cursed!, grand dames, be not afraid and tales and legends.
As for finding people to play with, you should look to see if there are any gaming groups in your area. I know of a couple shops in Toronto and Ottawa where you can basically pay an entry fee, stay and play, and find people who are looking for random players to play with.
If not, you should check out your local comic shops (if you have any). They often organize game nights too.
The first and only insert I made was for Eldritch Horror. I made such a big mess (and accidentally glued something to our dinner table), that my boyfriend banned me from ever doing something like that ever again.
Well that stinks :( Hopefully you can try again some time. And maybe be a tad more careful next time :)
We have such a small apartment, if I would do some DIY-stuff, we'd need more space. Hmm... Or more organized compartments with foam core inserts.
Where can i buy the rabbit cutter?¿
I got mine at an art supplies store (where I got the foam core as well) but you should be able to get one off amazon as well: www.amazon.com/Alvin-Rabbet-Foam-Board-Cutter/dp/B001DKMX1K/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1405906133&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=rabbet+cutter
I always used a tackle box.
What was the device called that you use for the edges? I couldn't tell what exactly you said.
We've made mods for Catan, 7 Wonders, and Munchkin. My father made us a chest/bench to store all the games and provide additional seating.
It's a rabbet cutter: www.dickblick.com/products/foamboard-rabbet-cutter/
A games bench is sweet! I haven't played 7 wonders yet, but the other 2 I can definitely see needing inserts :)
Paul Mason -- Yeah, it works beautifully except for the Catan boards. We got the hard plastic kickstarter boards (with expansions). 7 Wonders has a lot of pieces like Small World. I *highly* recommend it if you have people who like Catan and Risk.
I thought you were saying "rabbit" but wasn't sure. Thanks! I might need to look into buying one of those. Appreciate the reply back.
***** No problemo! I'd never heard of the tool before either, but when I was talking to the guy at the art supplies store, explaining what I was working on, he highly recommended it. And I can see why. It's easy to use, and makes the boxes look way more professional. Not to mention adding some durability to them too.
Paul Mason
amzn.com/B000HGK840 I use this for my notch cuts. It'll even let you cut v-grooves so you can bend the board into a 90 degree angle. I'll have to check out that rabbet cutter though.
Nucleius That looks super handy! The only advantage that the rabbet cutter has over that is that it's locked into just the right heights for doing the notching.
Being able to do the v cuts sounds like it'd come in pretty useful though :)
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