I have made over 160 boxes in the last week! These things are very impressive. I think I found one small bug though. In the Upsilon-class shuttle, should one of the reinforcement walls have a notch on it? Or am i not understanding how this goes together?

Thanks again!

jorj

1 hour ago, sirjorj said:

I have made over 160 boxes in the last week! These things are very impressive. I think I found one small bug though. In the Upsilon-class shuttle, should one of the reinforcement walls have a notch on it? Or am i not understanding how this goes together?

Thanks again!

jorj

Woah, that's impressive, very kind of you that you're still talking to me after so much cutting, scoring and glueing. I'd imagined somebody doing this would go more like "**** SirWilli, rot in ****..." ;-)

Regarding your question: Yes, you're right. Since I always glue those reinforcement walls before punching out the thumbholes, this never mattered to me. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Not at all. I find the process of putting these together very relaxing. Just throw on some videos for background noise and go to town. I do think I am getting a callus (or should I say, Kallus ) from the scissors but I'll get over it.

Right on. Thanks for the clarification.

jorj

This weekend I made five (five!) pilot collector boxes. I made one of each for me, and a second "generic" or catch-all that I'm going to drop into the pot of prizes at our next store tournament. Earlier in the week I made two of the upgrade card collector boxes.

In the photo-stream of instructions for the collector boxes you mention trimming off the excess on the side panels that goes beyond the bottom of the box? I mark and trim those before gluing them on; it seems to work much better. I hold the panel against the side of the box, draw the line for the excess, and then trim slightly inside the line to make a nice clean edge. Much easier than trying to fiddle with scissors or a blade to trim the bottom of the box.

I laminated the separators for the pilot collector box and then found out I had to trim a slight bit of overlap there too, so for the remaining boxes I built I did that trimming before the gluing.

On 02/08/2017 at 5:13 AM, SirWillibald said:

This guy is great - I love Willi!...

... that didn't come out the right way...

... try again...

I love Bald Willi!!

... Oh dear!...

3 hours ago, drathbun said:

This weekend I made five (five!) pilot collector boxes. I made one of each for me, and a second "generic" or catch-all that I'm going to drop into the pot of prizes at our next store tournament. Earlier in the week I made two of the upgrade card collector boxes.

In the photo-stream of instructions for the collector boxes you mention trimming off the excess on the side panels that goes beyond the bottom of the box? I mark and trim those before gluing them on; it seems to work much better. I hold the panel against the side of the box, draw the line for the excess, and then trim slightly inside the line to make a nice clean edge. Much easier than trying to fiddle with scissors or a blade to trim the bottom of the box.

I laminated the separators for the pilot collector box and then found out I had to trim a slight bit of overlap there too, so for the remaining boxes I built I did that trimming before the gluing.

That sounds like a reasonable idea. But if you hold the scissors in the appropriate orientation, it's really easy to trim afterwards, as well. But I really don't how to describe this in english sorry.

And building a box for your prize pool!? How cool is that, I'm flattered... Let me know if you get any feedback!

1 hour ago, ABXY said:

This guy is great - I love Willi!...

... that didn't come out the right way...

... try again...

I love Bald Willi!!

... Oh dear!...

But really, I'm not bald! I'm a proud owner of significantly more hair than some of my colleagues at work, who are roughly my age...

I love how there's people like bold Sir Willibald who put so much time and energy into giving something to the whole X-Wing crowd! Thank you very much again pal! Also the Micro Hangars, Maneuver Cards...well pretty much everything is absolutely awesome and very practical!

Since there's also costs involved (e.g. for hosting his website) and I for one would actually pay money for all the downloadable stuff, I think it wouldn't hurt most of us to also donate a buck or two to Sir Willi to fund his crusade for efficient mini storage etc.

Random question related to the boxes

What program do you use to develop these things? Every program ive found that isnt like some high end and expensive art program i can never figure out how to get true scale on it.
My orks for 40k are too randomly modeled to use foam for and have a lot of pointy bitz sticking out so i thought it would be a wise idea to make my own boxes for my 40k models. But the scale is never what i think it is, probably because i dont have the right program.
(edit: i literally just remembered i own SAI....for when i tried dabbling in digital art...i should see if that has a true-scale feature so i can make the boxes the correct size)

12 hours ago, Siddhi said:

I love how there's people like bold Sir Willibald who put so much time and energy into giving something to the whole X-Wing crowd! Thank you very much again pal! Also the Micro Hangars, Maneuver Cards...well pretty much everything is absolutely awesome and very practical!

Since there's also costs involved (e.g. for hosting his website) and I for one would actually pay money for all the downloadable stuff, I think it wouldn't hurt most of us to also donate a buck or two to Sir Willi to fund his crusade for efficient mini storage etc.

Wow, great feedback, I'm really flattered, thank you!

And yes, every buck helps (website, cardstock, ink...) and is most welcome, but every single nice comment helps, as well!! Wouldn't be doing this anymore without all your morale support!

6 hours ago, Vineheart01 said:

Random question related to the boxes

What program do you use to develop these things? Every program ive found that isnt like some high end and expensive art program i can never figure out how to get true scale on it.
My orks for 40k are too randomly modeled to use foam for and have a lot of pointy bitz sticking out so i thought it would be a wise idea to make my own boxes for my 40k models. But the scale is never what i think it is, probably because i dont have the right program.
(edit: i literally just remembered i own SAI....for when i tried dabbling in digital art...i should see if that has a true-scale feature so i can make the boxes the correct size)

I'm using a combination of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (and Microsoft Excel, but only for creating the separate data sets for all my projects).

And I'm still working on a ModularMiniaturesBox, having some problems with an appropriate way of actually making it a closeable box and not just a bunch of compartments (those are pretty much done, can show you a picture, if you like ..)

Any idea when Wave 11 Microhangers will be available?

Sorry, I'm ill at the moment, hopefully soon....

Ah.. Thanks no fun. Get well, sir!

Feeling better, now my printer gave in, but the wave 11 MicroHangars are ready to download!

http://sirwillibald.com/games/x-wing-miniatures-games/microhangars/

20 hours ago, SirWillibald said:

Feeling better, now my printer gave in, but the wave 11 MicroHangars are ready to download!

http://sirwillibald.com/games/x-wing-miniatures-games/microhangars/

Sir, you're the best! I don't event want to think about what messy pile my collection would be without your work!

A question arises though - would you consider making a Rebel-Themed counterparts for the Scurrg Box?

Also, what is your plan for the (yet to be released) Scurrg Gearbox? Will you release one extra sized Gearbox, or divide it into a set of two?

Thank you!

47 minutes ago, ryfterek said:

Sir, you're the best! I don't event want to think about what messy pile my collection would be without your work!

A question arises though - would you consider making a Rebel-Themed counterparts for the Scurrg Box?

Also, what is your plan for the (yet to be released) Scurrg Gearbox? Will you release one extra sized Gearbox, or divide it into a set of two?

Or maybe a smaller rebel logo right below the scum logo? It is 20% rebel, 80% scum, after all...

Thanks guys!

Regarding the Scurrg stuff: An additional hangar won't be a problem, as well as the version with the combined logos (even though this might look a little weird).

Concerning the GearBox: What do you think would be the best way to handle this? One large box or a separate rebel box? It's both possible, just need some input...

I would lean towards a single box with scum and rebel cardboard.

IIRC, you do have some boxes with multiple options (was it ghost/shuttle? or maybe the hounds tooth shuttle thing?), so would it be too much extra effort to do both and let the end use decide how they want their stuff organized?

31 minutes ago, sirjorj said:

I would lean towards a single box with scum and rebel cardboard.

IIRC, you do have some boxes with multiple options (was it ghost/shuttle? or maybe the hounds tooth shuttle thing?), so would it be too much extra effort to do both and let the end use decide how they want their stuff organized?

No, I suppose it won't be. Will see to it!

Like this??

Of course an additional hangar with only the rebel symbol won't be a problem, either. Will gladly add them both.

3 hours ago, SirWillibald said:

Like this??

Of course an additional hangar with only the rebel symbol won't be a problem, either. Will gladly add them both.

Perfect!

Sometimes I can be fast ... ;-)

Thank you! It’s 2 am here now, but I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow!