Custom storage box

[McJazz]

Still have made no progress in this endevor.  Anybody have any new news on stroage containers?

I can't find the tread about the boxes that somebody found at Michaels craft supply store.

I believe this is what you're looking for:
http://carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=1249.msg15556#msg15556

I have since added The Plague, but have been unable to get a copy of Die Kornkreise.

[aeoliner]

soon i will be making a wooden box for carcassonne. afterwards i will post picks and measurements.

[Talisinbear]

The craziness is how many tiles one can make

I'm thinking I could end up with 600+ and still be way short of having all that are offered here

[Novelty]

I can't imagine how long it'd take to play a game with 600+ tiles.  If you do play such a game Talisinbear, please do take lots of pictures

[thescottishguy]

I'm a bit of an OCD geek when it comes to storage and recently got into carcassonne, of course this meant buying all "reasonably" available expansions. I'm pretty happy with my Artbin Solutions box, the 4-48 (4 fixed compartments divisible into 48 small ones) it's the 5004AB model.

It holds all of the tiles from the Big Box 3 plus tower, catapult, wheel of fortune/fate, river 1 and 2, count, king, cult-seige-creativity, plague and tunnel. plus all the tokens, meeples etc. EXCEPT the catapult and tokens from the catapult since I'm not fond of them

It also won't hold the scoring tracks and rulebooks.

Since I ordered it I found out that the Super satchel slim boxes, specifically the 9101AB (also from artbin.com) are also well suited to carc tiles and are bigger, so that's a possible for those who have lots of homebrew tiles.


I have just ordered another artbin box, the Deluxe Super Satchel™, Divided Top/Divided Bottom 6982AB. I'm hoping that the top box is deep enough to use to hold tiles, the bottom will hold rules, scoring tracks, catapult, the tower and other misc bits. and that the mini boxes that attach to the side will hold the meeples.

I'll post some pics of all the Carc stuff in the box once the new one gets here.

[Talisinbear]

Made this from an old jewelery box I paid $4 for

would hold all current releases

but not if use the expansions from fans

[CKorfmann]

That seems pretty nice.

[Scott]

Regarding the Super Satchel containers from artbin.com, I would expect the Open Top/Divided Bottom model 6980AB to be the best for Carc purposes, but that's just based on eye-balling it. I'm thinking about the scoring track being stored in the top portion.

For me, I think I will only be satisfied with a custom wooden box. I'm thinking the sides of the box would be finger-jointed. The bottom of the box would be connected to the sides with a variation on a lap joint whereby the perimeter of the bottom panel would be removed the width of the sides. Not sure if that makes sense. The dividers inside the box would attach to the sides of the boxes using dados. Sub-dividers would attach to dividers using halved joints. All interior surfaces lined with felt (need to add a small allowance for that to the size of the tiles so that tiles will still fit). Each expansion would have its own compartment, and the internal dividers would need to be slightly shorter than a tile's height so that tiles can be easily removed from the box.

Now I just need to learn how to use tools.

[thescottishguy]

I picked up the slim satchel box I mentioned above works great for tiles, holds everything, tons of room for customs perfect.

The super satchel with divided top and open bottom unfortunately doesn't have enough depth in the top tray for tiles, but it's great for meeples and tokens.

I took a hotknife to the open bottom tray and cut it so that the super satchel slim box fits inside. Now I have a single case that carries everything I could need for carc.

[CKorfmann]

Thanks for those photos.  Merit point for you.  It looks pretty good.

[jcardwell3rd]

Check out the Plano tackle boxes, specifically the clear flat ones, I have all of my carc stuff in them, I will post pics when i get a chance.

[skyholm1]

I also removed the deep well and use the small long boxes from michaels in them to hold meeples.  then cut and moved the shallow well to the other side of the  box freeing up the space between the deep wells.

[ne0x]

I recently picked up a card storage box from Michaels (I've seen it elsewhere too).  It has removable dividers, and the lid latches.  I had to trim the scoring track, but otherwise it holds everything.  Oh, and be careful, the plastic cracks easily if dropped.

[CKorfmann]

Wow! This is a really nice looking set.  One question, what is the oversized CCRR tile for? 

Where did you get those chainmail bags.  They are great!  I'm kinda wondering if they would scuff up the meeples after a while, but still, it might be worth it.  Is it possible to get them in other colors too?

[jcardwell3rd]

I just use two large plano boxes and one small.
I keep everything in a leather shoulderbag with all of my rule cards, score cards, player cards etc.