Just as a short intro, we are a small family-run business that sells custom foam inserts, mostly for toolboxes. But we love making cool YouTube videos with the foam for a bunch of different uses. As avid D&D players and board games fans, we quickly decided that we wanted to make something relating to D&D.
TL;DR: Watch the making of here, and find the giveaway details in the description:
The first problem we faced was, well... D&D doesn't really have game pieces. You could put the die in foam, but that's not really epic is it? We could buy a bunch of miniatures, but if they're not part of a set does it lend itself to making a custom box for them?
One of us stumbled on the AoTG set and instantly we knew that it would make a cool box. The amount of pieces there are, and the fact that it comes with cards as well as a bunch of unique dice meant it was a perfect project to put in foam.
So the next problem was, what box do we put it in? It has to be about the same size as the original box because you want it to be small enough to store, so a treasure chest or something was out of the question. After some searching we found a nice little wooden box on eBay that would easily fit everything inside.
Great, we had a box, but it doesn't look the part. Our first step after getting the box was to put the AoTG logo on the front and give it a new finish. All we did for this was reverse print the logo and apply acetone to the paper on the box (you can see this process in the video). Then we just applied an oil to get a nice finish and protect the wood.
Then we had to go about replacing the metal on it with something that fits a fantasy game a bit better. So we got these:
After this was the easy bit (for us)! We used 2 layers of foam, the top layer for miniatures and then the dice, cards and everything else underneath, then on the back of the lid is the game board and manual. The cool thing about having everything in foam is that firstly, you don't have to worry about searching for everything after your session, because you can see if something is missing. And, it just looks cool. I've put most of my personal collection of board games in foam, even ones that don't need it, like Love Letter, it's pointless but it looks so good!
Anyway, once we finished the project we knew that this would be something epic to share with the D&D community, and rather than just posting the video everywhere, we'd rather someone out there have this box. So we're giving the box, and all of the contents away so you can turn up to your next session with a new game, and an epic box to put it all in.
Hey everyone!
Just as a short intro, we are a small family-run business that sells custom foam inserts, mostly for toolboxes. But we love making cool YouTube videos with the foam for a bunch of different uses. As avid D&D players and board games fans, we quickly decided that we wanted to make something relating to D&D.
TL;DR: Watch the making of here, and find the giveaway details in the description:
The first problem we faced was, well... D&D doesn't really have game pieces. You could put the die in foam, but that's not really epic is it? We could buy a bunch of miniatures, but if they're not part of a set does it lend itself to making a custom box for them?
One of us stumbled on the AoTG set and instantly we knew that it would make a cool box. The amount of pieces there are, and the fact that it comes with cards as well as a bunch of unique dice meant it was a perfect project to put in foam.
So the next problem was, what box do we put it in? It has to be about the same size as the original box because you want it to be small enough to store, so a treasure chest or something was out of the question. After some searching we found a nice little wooden box on eBay that would easily fit everything inside.
Great, we had a box, but it doesn't look the part. Our first step after getting the box was to put the AoTG logo on the front and give it a new finish. All we did for this was reverse print the logo and apply acetone to the paper on the box (you can see this process in the video). Then we just applied an oil to get a nice finish and protect the wood.
Then we had to go about replacing the metal on it with something that fits a fantasy game a bit better. So we got these:
After this was the easy bit (for us)! We used 2 layers of foam, the top layer for miniatures and then the dice, cards and everything else underneath, then on the back of the lid is the game board and manual. The cool thing about having everything in foam is that firstly, you don't have to worry about searching for everything after your session, because you can see if something is missing. And, it just looks cool. I've put most of my personal collection of board games in foam, even ones that don't need it, like Love Letter, it's pointless but it looks so good!
Anyway, once we finished the project we knew that this would be something epic to share with the D&D community, and rather than just posting the video everywhere, we'd rather someone out there have this box. So we're giving the box, and all of the contents away so you can turn up to your next session with a new game, and an epic box to put it all in.
If you want to watch the entire process the video is here: https://youtu.be/8rMtq2j8Avc
And if you want to enter the giveaway follow this link: https://bit.ly/2ShAaL5
And if you'd like to make something like this yourself you can get the foam from our website: https://www.shadowfoam.com/