One side of the cardboard box insert is sloped, which meant that each tray had to be slightly larger than the one below it. This was a really tight build with very little wiggle room.
#Gloomhaven organizer diy foam core series
So I built a series of trays that sit nicely in one of the box sections to make this step a lot easier. The stacks of opera house buildings in this game are the one fiddly element of the game to set up.
Instead, I built a little mini-insert to fix a very specific problem. In hindsight, I’m not that pleased with the way I used to keep the meeples in place (not really fond of the upper piece for the wooden meeples), but it works well enough. The meeples’ slot was quite hard to design: the KickStarter exclusive meeple even has a different thickness. The branch tokens are used during play, so I made a removable tray for them, curving the inner angles with cardstock (thanks to Ben Tinney - Penguinised for his tutorials). The player’s and first player tokens’ slot needed some precise x-acto knife work, and needed a layer of cardstock on top to hide some un-erasable traces (the lettering is also by my girlfriend). I also decided to have the outline of each tower on the foam core pieces that keep the cards in play: just another aesthetic detail.
These were drawn by my girlfriend with brush pens, using the colour of the city in the rulebook. The card slots, each fitting the deck for one city, one of the player’s aids and a foam core piece to keep them in place, have satin ribbons to lift the cards up there was actually space enough for fingers, but i used ribbons for the looks, for consistency and to have nice plaques with the cities’ names. Next is the whole middle structure complete, without and with the game’s components.