Last Night on Earth: Custom Game Boxes + Tuckboxes
Quite similar to my Arkham Horror box but in this case the boxes take into account for all the main expansions released so far (Hero Pack One, Growing Hunger, Survival of the Fittest, & Zombies with Grave Weapons). All the components can fit into one big box given the insert is completely tossed but its not easy. The box will literally be filled to its limit with no space to spare. Because of this, I used both big boxes to keep components organized, secure and easy to get to and put away.
The first big box (base game) contains all the main components: card decks, scenarios, character sheets, and some of the more frequently used counters. These all go into the custom wooden insert. Construction is exactly the same as the Arkham Horror one with poplar sides and plywood bottom. The board pieces, soundtrack and rulebooks get layered on top of the insert.
The second box (Growing Hunger) contains the rest and most of the counters for the game plus all the miniatures. I did consider doing it out of poplar like with the others but found this to be an undesirable choice. I’d have to make 50+ small-sized compartments which wouldn’t be much fun. Also, while the minis for LNoE are not fragile by any means, I still wouldn’t feel comfortable with them rattling around against hard surfaces.
All of this in addition to simply being cheaper then wood, I decided on pluck foam. The only downside to using pluck foam is that it doesn’t utilize space as well. With poplar and most wood, I can work with pretty much any type of sizing I want with walls as thin as 1/8″ (in my case 1/4″) but with pluck foam everything is based on a 1/2″ grid. This means all compartments and walls need to be a multiple of 1/2″. Not really a problem for LNoE but something definitely to take into account when planning. All minis and counters go into two foam layers as can be seen in the pics below.
Like with all the other tuckboxes, these were designed within Photoshop with the use of the online Tuck-box Generator to make blank template pdfs to work off of. Tuckboxes will also be up on BoardGameGeek in the near future.
Tuckboxes can be Downloaded Here.
Tags: boardgame, flying frog, last night on earth, storage, tuckbox
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