My new HeroQuest box

[Ethica]

I would advise you build in room for stuff you might not possess yet, and maybe a bit for pens?

[cynthialee]

sweet
definatly take pics!

[Goblin-King]

Well, I'm happy to announce I'm making my own box too! I'm pretty psyched. It's big enough to hold my HQ board, plus the 2 Dragon Strike boards, ánd all 5 D&D tiles too!
The bottom of the box holds my printed questbook, which has all official quests, the magazine quests, and a tie-in from this forum; it holds the notepad, rulebook, small tiles, dice, character cards etc.
I've also made an internal box for the miniatures and a pack of cards.
I'm going to burn the logo onto the lid

If I can, I'll post pictures as soon as I've made some

From the sound of it it's actually a "Hero Quest crate"!

[Sjeng]

Well, my box is DONE! yes!!! lots of work, but here's the result:


The box, closed and opened, with the HQ logo burned into the lid. I used a print and carbon paper to trace the lines. Then burned the lines into the wood.


The bottom has felt pads to avoid sratches. The chain holding the lid fits nidely besides the inlay box. The small ridges in the bottom serve to support the inlay box.


There's room for all my HQ, D&D and Dragon Strike stuff on the bottom, and I've made the spacers so they can fit the D&D boards as well. My Questbook is printed on A4 paper, and has all the official HQ questbooks from this website, plus the 4 magazine quests, and some extra quests too. Printed single sided, so if I printed double-sided, I could have fitted in more quests.


The inlay has plenty of room for all my HQ mini's (most are being painted atm), my D&D mini's, my DS mini's, and probably some of my Mantic mini's as well.

I love the result!

[cynthialee]

Outstanding!

(wish I had a work shop to make a box like this....)

[Sjeng]

Thanks! I'm thinking of a good way to make some sort of dividers in the inlay box to keep my mini's in place.

[drathe]

I suggest some sort of soft foam cut into long strips a few centimetres wide. Should keep things snug in place without damaging them.

[Sjeng]

That is a fine piece of handy work. I would certainly love to see information on how you made it. Are the instructions on the site here? I've been thinking of a similar project for a while, but have simply not gotten around to it.

Found this as a comment on my album. Thanks for the nice reply!

I started with laying out all my HQ/D&D stuff (books, tiles, dice, notepad, etc.) and moved them about on my table untill I roughly had an idea of how I wanted to store them. Of course the game board was the minimum size for the box.
Then I measured the layout, and drew it out (using AutoCAD). Once I had the inside measurements of the box, I took some multiplex wood and started sawing pieces. I cut out slots to fit the edges of the sides of the box together, and glued them together. The bottom was also glued. Did the same for the lid, and used copper edges to keep it solid. I also used tiny screws, not nails, on the edges, hinges and leather straps. (which was simply an old small belt).
The wooden inlay box was made the same, without copper edges. I made 2 holes to lift it out of the box.
The inlay is supported by the dividers in the bottom. Those were glued onto the bottom, and I cut in small slots to fit crossing parts together (if you know what I mean).
I traced the HQ logo onto the lid with carbon paper, then burned it in using a soldering iron.
Then I laquered the whole thing and let it dry a night.

[Sjeng]

One last photo of the last addition. After this, I believe it's complete. I added the Armory and Alchemist's shops to the inside of the lid.

Can you post that armoury and alchemist shop file here please? That looks great! I don't have those. I only have a slightly different armoury.

[shy-design]

that looks sharp.