SirWilli's Workshop: X-Wing 2.0 stuff

By SirWillibald, in X-Wing

@Gazerfoxie

What did you use to score your fold lines? That looks like it would help a lot. (or for anybody else, what's a good method to score)

@SirWillibald

Awesome work as always, your hard work is much appreciated, sir!

Believe it or not, I use a set of bent tweezers with a narrow rounded tip and a metal straightedge to do all my scoring. works well enough. butterknife and a straightedge works too.

Gotcha, do you puncture along the scoring line at all? It looks like the edges of your boxes are dashed, was wondering if that was the lighting or what?

Possibly a dumb question, do you score on the opposing side of the fold? i.e. say you're doing a mountain fold for the lid of a tuck box, do you score on the inside or outside?

Thanks!!

No, I don't punch them at all. those are the dotted fold lines that SirWili prints on the boxes. I tend to hit them right on the mark ;3

missed your second question, I do all my scoring on the printed side of the page, in one go, regardless of the direction of the fold (it's easier to see the marks that way) Then I tend to cut some of the more troublesome inside corners (the tabs/leaves on the lid end of the box, the little opening divet) with an xacto, and finish up the remaining cuts with scissors.

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@ Gazerfoxie
Thanks! I hope my boxes turn out nearly as well as yours.

Cheers!

@Gazerfoxie

What did you use to score your fold lines? That looks like it would help a lot. (or for anybody else, what's a good method to score)

@SirWillibald

Awesome work as always, your hard work is much appreciated, sir!

I use one side of a pair of scissors to score my fold lines. Lay the paper flat, score along the fold lines using a ruler as a guide, then cut out along the outer lines. My whole collection is boxed using this method, and it works great!

Nice

Been busy the last few days, thanks for the answers above, nothing I could add, my thoughts in that matter can be found on my FAQ page.

But more importantly, I have a new update ready!

http://www.sirwillibald.com/?p=2257〈=en

ModularTokenBox

New ModularTokenBox system to store all your tokens as you see fit! Here's a preview picture of an Imperial Assault version:

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The compartment size is highly customizable and you can even stack two of those trays under one lid. For now you'll only find a plain white generic version, will add some X-wing stickers later on!

Italian TuckboxCollection

Thanks to Raffaele, pilot cards and upgrade cards boxes ready, more to come!

X-wing stickers for CarrierBoxes

Retrofit the Armada CarrierBoxes to carry pilot cards and upgrade cards boxes!

And some minor website changes.

Feedback welcome!

I tried posting this on your website, but the comment didn't seem to take. The pilots on the K-Wing Gearbox are wrong. Looks like a copy/paste error from the E-Wing.

Great job! I love functional papercraft.

the token tray looks pretty snazy!

I tried posting this on your website, but the comment didn't seem to take. The pilots on the K-Wing Gearbox are wrong. Looks like a copy/paste error from the E-Wing.

Yes, you're right, thank you, going to fix it! :)

I just started playing and use your boxes for my collection. Great job on these, thanks!

I just started playing and use your boxes for my collection. Great job on these, thanks!

Better late than never (as we say in germany...): Thank you!

And I've uploaded some updates:

http://www.sirwillibald.com/?p=2365〈=en

X-Wing only gets a K-wing GearBox fix this time, more stuff for other games.

And I've created a new section for stuff you created out of my templates, like fancy lids for the ModularTokenBox (which has been updated with a new lid alternative). Feel free to share your work!

And a few other things, just check it out, if you like!

I want to do this, but I fear my printer won't take 200 gr paper.
haven't seen thick paper at affordable prices and it would become pretty expensive when I let a printing-company do this. (It would also be an elaborate undertaking, because I'd need to make a custom pdf first with pages I want (incl duplicates) and might ruin proportions in the process)

I want to do this, but I fear my printer won't take 200 gr paper.

haven't seen thick paper at affordable prices and it would become pretty expensive when I let a printing-company do this. (It would also be an elaborate undertaking, because I'd need to make a custom pdf first with pages I want (incl duplicates) and might ruin proportions in the process)

Edit: I can only speak for germany, but here I get 250sheets of white 200gsm cardstock for about 12EUR, seems quite cheap to me. I can't imagine that there's no similar thing in other countries. Where do you live?

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Sorry for the double post, but I just discovered that I totally forgot to include the download link to the italian upgrade card boxes! I'm so sorry, my fellow italian players, no offence intended.

The pilot card boxes are already available, more italian stuff is on my list!

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These are amazing! Thanks for sharing with the community.

Thank you very much for your work, SirWillibald!

I especially like the maneuver cards--It's an idea that I hope FFG brings home.

I want to do this, but I fear my printer won't take 200 gr paper.

haven't seen thick paper at affordable prices and it would become pretty expensive when I let a printing-company do this. (It would also be an elaborate undertaking, because I'd need to make a custom pdf first with pages I want (incl duplicates) and might ruin proportions in the process)

What printer do you use? My own printer's handbook (Canon PIXMA MX925) tells me not to load more than 130gsm, but printing on 200gsm is no problem at all.

Edit: I can only speak for germany, but here I get 250sheets of white 200gsm cardstock for about 12EUR, seems quite cheap to me. I can't imagine that there's no similar thing in other countries. Where do you live?

I've got a Espon sx425w.

it supposedly should be able to digest it (thick photopaper), but it went crazy when I once loaded a couple of 200gsm handpressed paper sheets.

Then my boy once fed it a Knäckebrød and since then my printer has a mind of its own and I don't plan on buying a new one, because I don't use it that often.

anyway, regarding the sheets, I've seen them for similar prices here on webstores, but then they charge around 9 euro's of shipping costs.

and webshops or mortar-stone shops without shipping costs ask over 20 euros a pack.

so, spending 20 euros on something not knowing if it'll work, kinda holds me off. There was a time I didn't mind, but I now got tons of items/tools that I bought, hoping they would work for what I planned on doing, but didn't. (+ that I overspent a little on X-wing lately ;) )

perhaps I should go to a hobby store first and see if they have some single sheets for 10 cents a piece to try it out.

I tried downloading the gearbox file with the KWing update, and the pdf won't open. Any suggestions?

I tried downloading the gearbox file with the KWing update, and the pdf won't open. Any suggestions?

... Since this happens about once per month, I've updated my FAQ for this problem, please head over there and take a look:

http://www.sirwillibald.com/?page_id=191〈=en

Very sorry for the inconvenience .

Got it to work now, thanks!

Any suggestions on the best way to subdivide a TokenBox for X-Wing use?

Hey guys, I've just finished a hangar for the epic ISD from Armada lately and this gave me some ideas for possible X-Wing epic hangars. Gave it a try with the Rebel Transport and I think it works, the box is quite sturdy, the ship fits nicely, and in the upper area is still room to place the bases, ship token, pegs and dial (still missing a corresponding box)n thought you might fancy some WIP shots:

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Furthermore I came up with an alternative way of storing upgrade cards, the WIP photo beneath shows Armada cards, but they are the same size.

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The box is a bit to high, messed something up in Illustrator, but this can easily be solved. Think I'll give this one a try, as well.

Keep you posted, hope to get this done before wave 8 arrives...

Love the storage box for all the upgrade cards. Simple and elegant.

Hey guys, looking for some help:

Most of my X-Wing stuff has been adapted to an automated workflow and some cool new things are yet to come (CollectorBox for upgrade cards, EpicHangars, ... The next version of my GearBoxes including all ships released so far is already done).

Because of the vast amount of pdf pages I did by now, those files become more and more prone to little errors (spelling, graphics, or other), since I only have my own two eyes that happen to be somewhat weary from time to time.

I already formed a little team of editors for the german version who help me proof-reading new things before I upload them. This already helped me to avoid some mistakes, thanks guys!

I'd very much like to have such a team for the english version of the boxes, as well. Your only job would be to take a look at new files meaning you get them sooner than everybody else. If you'd like to help, please let me know by posting here, by PM or by mail (christian.schepers.1975 <at> gmail.com). And please add your own mail address!

Since I already did a few boxes in other languages in the past (french, italian,...) I'd really appreciate the same for those (or even additional...) language versions, should you be interested in further support (it's quite easy once all boxes are automated). So if you're a french, italian, or whatever language X-Wing player and think you're capable of translating a bunch of english phrases for me, let me know, too!

TL;DR:

I'm looking for help with:

- proof reading english boxes

- translating and proof reading boxes in additional languages

SirWilli

EDIT:

English language team: 1 member

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You, sir, are a treasure for this community. Keep up the absurdly good work.

You, sir, are a treasure for this community. Keep up the absurdly good work.

I'm flattered, thank you!

And to keep you content, new X-Wing stuff incoming! The MiniManeuverCards have been updated to v4.0:

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(Picture shows the german version, too lazy to make an english preview, as well. But of course there's an english version, too!)

Go here:

http://www.sirwillibald.com/?p=2570〈=en

Feedback welcome!

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