{"id":130,"date":"2016-02-07T02:17:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2018-01-01T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:48:11","slug":"showcase-x-wing-miniatures-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Showcase: X-wing Miniatures case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to figure out how best to carry my X-wing miniatures models as I started traveling to tournaments both locally and farther away like Indianapolis&#8217; GenCon and Fantasy Flight&#8217;s Worlds competition held Minnesota.\u00a0 I randomly stopped at a garage sale (something I do maybe once every few years) and happened to find an old Star Wars action figure case for $3 (Power of the Force Millennium Falcon edition from Kenner produced around 1996).\u00a0 Once I saw it, I knew it would work perfect as a case for my X-wing minis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Falcon-Case-blog.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-131\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Falcon-Case-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Falcon Case blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Inside, the case had these perfect dividers and I was showed it off to a friend as I tried to figure out how to make the models work (knowing I would have to cut some of the dividers out to fit the larger ones).\u00a0 After seeing it, he had the brilliant idea to cut it all out and get some custom foam to fit and hold the models.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-case.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-133\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-case.jpg\" alt=\"falcon case\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-case.jpg 500w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-case-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gutting it out with a dremel tool was a ton of work but eventually I had everything cut out and smoothed down enough to use the entire inside to support model storage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-134\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex1.jpg\" alt=\"falcon ex1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex1.jpg 1350w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the top, I didn&#8217;t cut the dividers out as deep as I&#8217;d use them to store all the tokens and bits required for the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-135\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex2.jpg\" alt=\"falcon ex2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex2.jpg 1350w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex2-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dremel basically melted the plastic out which left everything pretty rough.\u00a0 I ended up using steel wool and sandpaper to smooth things out to finish the main areas.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t like the idea of the open cockpit so I hotglued in a piece of black plastic to cover it up.\u00a0 The clips that held the case closed were shot so I went low tech and grabbed some of my girls&#8217; white hair bands and they worked great.\u00a0 The case itself was complete, now I needed to figure out the foam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.battlefoam.com\/custom-tray-creator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Battlefoam<\/a> has a custom foam creation tool and I started messing around with it.\u00a0 It was actually pretty easy to use but I couldn&#8217;t make it cut a circle like I needed.\u00a0 I contacted them and they figured out what I needed.\u00a0 I drew up some specs and it turned out perfect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-136\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex4.jpg\" alt=\"falcon ex4\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex4.jpg 1350w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex4-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex4-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/falcon-ex4-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When complete, it fit all the models I needed and I could make different foam inserts later as more models came out. The case holds everything securely and is now pretty recognizable as my personal carrying case when I go to tournaments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Falcon-Case-2-blog.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-132\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-132\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Falcon-Case-2-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Falcon Case 2 blog\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Falcon-Case-2-blog.jpg 800w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Falcon-Case-2-blog-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Falcon-Case-2-blog-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Falcon-Case-2-blog-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to figure out how best to carry my X-wing miniatures models as I started traveling to tournaments both locally and farther away like Indianapolis&#8217; GenCon and Fantasy Flight&#8217;s Worlds competition held Minnesota.\u00a0 I randomly stopped at a garage sale (something I do maybe once every few years) and happened to find an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,546],"tags":[54,55,30,32,53,41,56],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-x-wing-miniatures-game","tag-battlefoam","tag-dremel","tag-fantasy-flight-games","tag-gen-con","tag-millennium-falcon","tag-star-wars-x-wing","tag-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}