My new project "National Battle Boxes" -updated 1/7

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    Thanks for the compliments guys!

    My US badge arrived, im finishing up the lid tonight, to ill be able to post that box tomorrow!

    All my countries have more pieces then it came with, in this case, ya, they went DAK :)


  • Awesome … just, simply, awesome!

    And I like the sound of National Battle Boxes too. :)

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    @IWillNeverGrowUp:

    Awesome … just, simply, awesome!

    And I like the sound of National Battle Boxes too. :)

    Thanks! I don’t know, something about it, make me smile lol.

    I almost finished America, the lid is done, I still need to make the ribbon tab and setup chart, France is about ready, the medal should arrive today, AND Russia medal should arrive today as well, im super stoked!

    I hoped to post America today, but it’ll have to wait till tomorrow. Thanks everyone for the kind words!

  • '18 '17 '16 '15 Customizer

    Wow these boxes are unreal. Your, quite the artist. Man, I’m so jealous of your talent. Congrats, man, really awesome. :-D

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    @John:

    Wow these boxes are unreal. Your, quite the artist. Man, I’m so jealous of your talent. Congrats, man, really awesome. :-D

    Thanks John! Im lucky that my dad owns a cabinet shop, so I have access to the wood shop :) …. better yet, all the scraps of wood!

  • '17 '16

    Random thought… painting the wood boxes the color of the nation’s default units in-game?  Black box for Germany, Tan box for UK, Green box for US, Orange box for Japan, Maroon box for USSR?  Just a thought.


  • @Wolfshanze:

    Random thought… painting the wood boxes the color of the nation’s default units in-game?  Black box for Germany, Tan box for UK, Green box for US, Orange box for Japan, Maroon box for USSR?  Just a thought.

    I think staining and antiquing them would be better myself. The cloth tab and the medallion are distinguishing enough and making them look antiqued would be very classy.

  • '17 '16

    @IWillNeverGrowUp:

    @Wolfshanze:

    Random thought… painting the wood boxes the color of the nation’s default units in-game?  Black box for Germany, Tan box for UK, Green box for US, Orange box for Japan, Maroon box for USSR?  Just a thought.

    I think staining and antiquing them would be better myself. The cloth tab and the medallion are distinguishing enough and making them look antiqued would be very classy.

    Either/or… nothing wrong with staining either… not a huge fan of raw wood with no paint or stain.  The medals are very nice though.


  • @Wolfshanze:

    @IWillNeverGrowUp:

    @Wolfshanze:

    Random thought… painting the wood boxes the color of the nation’s default units in-game?�  Black box for Germany, Tan box for UK, Green box for US, Orange box for Japan, Maroon box for USSR?�  Just a thought.

    I think staining and antiquing them would be better myself. The cloth tab and the medallion are distinguishing enough and making them look antiqued would be very classy.

    Either/or… nothing wrong with staining either… not a huge fan of raw wood with no paint or stain.  The medals are very nice though.

    Agreed. I just feel for something this nice, stain would be classy. Japan Orange is so … garish on something like this, lol.

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    @Wolfshanze:

    Random thought… painting the wood boxes the color of the nation’s default units in-game?  Black box for Germany, Tan box for UK, Green box for US, Orange box for Japan, Maroon box for USSR?  Just a thought.

    When I started the project (not this, but my game table/board thing) I went though color choices, the 2 I liked best were this, and green… just imagine a dark green, distressed and aged.

    The deciding factor was the game board colors next to the paint color. So the boxed followed in theme, as I want the wood work to have the same theme.

    I wasn’t interested for me to have them all different colors, but if I was contracted to do so, im sure it would be epic.

    As for the medals, I went though designing options for the lids, my alt was painting the entire lid, example, imagine the rising sun for Japan running across the entire lid, which I like. But the idea of having medals and using its ribbon as the pull tab won for me.

    I still think painted lids would be pretty damn cool too!

    Unfortunately I had a busy week, and failed to post/do much I planned :( Oh well there is the weekend, well Sunday, I have a game Sat, im Japan :P

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    im kinda stuck on America ribbon, what do you guys think? The red/white/blue, but that’s france as well :(

    Maybe in the style of the silver star?


  • @siredblood:

    im kinda stuck on America ribbon, what do you guys think? The red/white/blue, but that’s france as well :(

    Maybe in the style of the silver star?

    If you can get one with a star, I would do that. Make it distinct and obvious and leave the red/white/blue stripes for France.

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    I tried 3 times to paint a proper star, and im so OCD, that my stars were not acceptable lol, SO, I went with solid blue.

    United States, France, and Soviet Union are done! I have British, ANZAC (still waiting shipment from Australia), and China medals bought and should be here soon. I had a bid on Italy, but was outbid lol. Japan is still looking grim, I do have a bid out, but I feel it will fail.

    I did a few edits to my setup chart layout, added the turn sequence for both 1940 and 42, and figured out what I wanted to do to cover the ribbon tab (see Germany, was old way).

    France requiring less space, got the honor of housing all the facilities :)

    Last is a pic of all 9 cases, China houses mostly game components, chips, dice, money etc, will provide pic when lid is done. Now while im awaiting medals, ill be designing the leather travel case for these. BUT not today, today im working on my map, which I hope to start a topic on soon.

    Thanks everyone for the feedback, ill keep updating this thread as the lids are completed!




  • '17 '16 Customizer

    BAM, found a WW2 US lapel star pin, ill pin it to the ribbon!

  • '17 '16

    Maybe you could get/find a small cloth US Flag and fold/cut it into ribbon size, so you could either get the stripes and or the blue star field to show?

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    @Wolfshanze:

    Maybe you could get/find a small cloth US Flag and fold/cut it into ribbon size, so you could either get the stripes and or the blue star field to show?

    well, I have a pin on the way, lets hope it pans out. Still waiting for my over seas shipments to continue this project. ANZAC was the first one I ordered, damn, still not here :(

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    Whoo-hooo, ANZAC arrived AND I won the Japan bid, 17 bids later and its mine!  :D … All I need now is to find Italy, which I have a bid on another one (lost the first one).


  • You’re making great progress on this project!


  • Can we see the Italian and Japanese boxes?

  • '17 '16 Customizer

    Thanks for the replies!

    I don’t have the medals on hand yet for Japan/Italy, they are both on the way from over seas, so who knows when ill get them, ANZAC was the first I ordered, and I just got it.

    With that, here is ANZAC!

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