Hi Fellow X-Wing Players,

I love this game as much as my opponent opposite me does. I appreciate the effort FFG team puts into each design, which has force me to come up with an innovated way for storing and moving my ships around. May I introducing HexBay, finally a storage solution for your Star Wars X-Wing Miniature fighters that ticks all the boxes. This modular system:

• connects - easily connects with each other,
• stacks - designed at set heights, which allows stacking onto each other,
• mix and match - you decide which ships to bring to the fight,
• future proof - this system is ready for the next wave.
• eco friendly - derived from plant based products
• 3D printed - supporting the ever growing community. Fast availability when a new wave releases

This answers a lot of problems the other solutions don't meet.

Foam

• thin guns get stuck in foam and break.
• expensive
• wasted space since it caters for a fix configuration

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You, sir, are brilliant.

My only concern is in getting the miniatures out, as it seems you have to tip the individual containers upside down to access them. Perhaps a little gap for a thumb might be useful?

I'll be getting a bundle of these when they come out.

Nice concept, but what do you plan to store or transport them in? Will they fit inside plano, stanley, dewalt, etc. containers?

Looks good - awesome concept. Will this be an Etsy store item after the Kickstarter?

Cool design, but why did you post it here? Why not put it out in the general forums?

35 minutes ago, Jaffamaster said:

Cool design, but why did you post it here? Why not put it out in the general forums?

This is the perfect place for this. Shush.

14 hours ago, Astech said:

You, sir, are brilliant.

My only concern is in getting the miniatures out, as it seems you have to tip the individual containers upside down to access them. Perhaps a little gap for a thumb might be useful?

I'll be getting a bundle of these when they come out.

If you would be so kind to check out page, I have just redesigned areas to allow your fingers to pull out the ship. Also slots for pegs. Thank you for reminding me. I did this for the M3 in earlier prototypes if you get a chance to view photos...and thanks so much for your positive words

14 hours ago, Segmentvs said:

Nice concept, but what do you plan to store or transport them in? Will they fit inside plano, stanley, dewalt, etc. containers?

My initial focus was to allow a modular design that will hopefully suit any container of your choosing but we are seeing a push for a complete system and are looking into what options we can develop. These work in layers of 25mm=inch height.

13 hours ago, Rolotamasi said:

Looks good - awesome concept. Will this be an Etsy store item after the Kickstarter?

It will be on some form of online store regardless in the kickstart successful or not but at this rate I do not see a problem for it not to succeed. Only thing is pre-orders will be taken but not filled till after kickstarter backers are looked after of course.

3 hours ago, Jaffamaster said:

Cool design, but why did you post it here? Why not put it out in the general forums?

Yeah, it just felt this was the better place even though the others may get a high exposure. What place were you thinking btw?

Please pass this on, Like my page, sign up and even better give me feedback on how I can better the solution.

50 minutes ago, BumDag said:

15 hours ago, Segmentvs said:

Nice concept, but what do you plan to store or transport them in? Will they fit inside plano, stanley, dewalt, etc. containers?

My initial focus was to allow a modular design that will hopefully suit any container of your choosing but we are seeing a push for a complete system and are looking into what options we can develop. These work in layers of 25mm=inch height.

It might be a good idea to post photos (either here or on facebook) of these in a travel case. I really like the idea, but I'm not sure how much wasted space there might be given hexagons in a square bag. I'm also curious about the height differences between different holders given I expect the idea is to stack these on top of each other.

Best of luck and go-you for actually doing this - I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that it takes a lot more than just a good idea to get to this point and not everyone has the gusto to take it to the next step. You, sir, are a commendable individual. Quickly:

1. I will totally kickstart this if you're comfortable with:

2. I don't know what your supply chain/manufacturing source is, and I'm asking that you describe it, but are you comfortable and prepared for multiple, large orders? I want these things but want to be sure we'll get them!

For a carrying case, I would think a hexagonal or possibly octagonal about the size of a small briefcase or laptop may be best. Basically your standard rectangle with the corners nipped off. Empty space could be used as space for tokens, especially if the intent is to create something that is chiefly meant for carrying just the ships you're bringing to a tourney, not to house your whole stable of ships.

Only other thing I might be slightly wary of is that the little nubs that hold the different cells together may be a bit delicate and snap off. Maybe have two instead of one, or make them sturdier somehow.

I like what you're doing with this concept.

yea, I agree, small nubs are bad. Need a larger connection source, hell, id even go so far as to say use something similar to how Lego can connect its pieces, Lego is prob one of the best modular ANYTHING on the planet so you should look at what can be done fully at the best modular set up, then move onto unique set up afterwards.

4 minutes ago, Rinzler in a Tie said:

Best of luck and go-you for actually doing this - I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that it takes a lot more than just a good idea to get to this point and not everyone has the gusto to take it to the next step. You, sir, are a commendable individual. Quickly:

1. I will totally kickstart this if you're comfortable with:

2. I don't know what your supply chain/manufacturing source is, and I'm asking that you describe it, but are you comfortable and prepared for multiple, large orders? I want these things but want to be sure we'll get them!

Thank you so much for your kind words. As I am experiencing, engaging and being transparent with the groups and individuals only builds that trust. Trust in me and trust in my product.

Listening to others, like yourself will only make this product better in my eyes.

This may get out of hand or it may not but like my design, I have given this area a lot of thought. I have researched into the time to print various ships, large or small, and have come up with a matrix that outlines at what point I need to bring in additional printers to support production within 12 weeks at 26 hours a week (minimum). That's right, 26 hours. I can do way more but I want to make sure there is room for life balance, repairs and just life itself. I will also have my original printer as backup or additional. Leading up to the kickstarter launch I will determine if I will limit total orders.

Realistically, 3D printing is slower than conventional manufacturing processing. Standing up would be using silicon moulding but this to me is a landfill with 55 ships times x moulds per ship with only 50 uses before the silicon deteriorates and then have to remould. No thank you. Injection moulding is that end of the line as for the options but at $10K for tooling per ship, not feasible.

So 3D printing farm it is.

I feel the key to this kickstarter is to limit the orders. I'm not greedy, but I am realistic. I will setup tiers with batched delivery dates (if I am allowed). More on this later but I hope this explains my process. I am allowing 8-12 weeks for designing and functional testing before commencing full production or this can be approach in batches as well. Meaning design, test, produce by waves.

I am excited about this because I have been working on this for a while and it is awesome to share this. I nearly gave up based on others opinions or what I thought were my limitations but here we are .

Thank you.

30 minutes ago, Force Majeure said:

For a carrying case, I would think a hexagonal or possibly octagonal about the size of a small briefcase or laptop may be best. Basically your standard rectangle with the corners nipped off. Empty space could be used as space for tokens, especially if the intent is to create something that is chiefly meant for carrying just the ships you're bringing to a tourney, not to house your whole stable of ships.

Only other thing I might be slightly wary of is that the little nubs that hold the different cells together may be a bit delicate and snap off. Maybe have two instead of one, or make them sturdier somehow.

I like what you're doing with this concept.

Nice! I will revisit three nubs (original design) and I'm in the process of increasing the size of these nubs. The bases is 3mm thick to increase the strength in this area. Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback.

16 minutes ago, Zeoinx said:

yea, I agree, small nubs are bad. Need a larger connection source, hell, id even go so far as to say use something similar to how Lego can connect its pieces, Lego is prob one of the best modular ANYTHING on the planet so you should look at what can be done fully at the best modular set up, then move onto unique set up afterwards.

Thanks. I'll pay some attention to this area.

1 hour ago, joeshmoe554 said:

It might be a good idea to post photos (either here or on facebook) of these in a travel case. I really like the idea, but I'm not sure how much wasted space there might be given hexagons in a square bag. I'm also curious about the height differences between different holders given I expect the idea is to stack these on top of each other.

In the works. I'll keep you post in both spots.

When building vertically, what keeps them from falling? IE: it that Falcon is on the bottom of the stack, can I put a wings on top of it?

This looks interesting, but does this go into a larger transport container? That seems to be a pretty critical piece.

Any progress on this? with images?

On 09/02/2017 at 1:04 AM, FourDogsInaHorseSuit said:

When building vertically, what keeps them from falling? IE: it that Falcon is on the bottom of the stack, can I put a wings on top of it?

...or you could put the A-Wing on the bottom and stack the falcon on top

On 14/02/2017 at 5:58 AM, patox said:

This looks interesting, but does this go into a larger transport container? That seems to be a pretty critical piece.

It's designed so people can put into any container they want. It will come with token, base, ruler holders etc. later down the line I will design a container.

4 hours ago, Zeoinx said:

Any progress on this? with images?

Please go to page as there is always developments there. I'll post the new ones shortly for you