Brandon the Brave Game Box Insert by deemended

Last crawled date: 4 years, 2 months ago

It seems some board game manufacturers have an allergy to any sort of in-box organization. I understand that is might save a nickel per unit, but it seems a bit remiss to not even include a flimsy bit of vacuformed plastic to keep the bits and pieces tidy and in place. Brandon the Brave is no exception to this.
3D printer to the rescue!
Alas, it seems nobody but me was inspired to tackle this task (or upload a model if they did). So, I dug in and spent way more time than the value of the game deserved modeling something myself.
What I present to you, fellow "just so" board game organizing enthusiast, is a three part insert to contain all the game pieces for easy storage and retrieval as well as a spacer to keep the other two sections from sliding around in the box - use or disregard the spacer as suits your temperament. The triangular tile sections have nice deep finger wells that go past the bottom tile and under for ease of getting all the tiles out and not fighting that last one. The booklet sits snugly on top and keeps the tiles from exiting their compartments.
These pass my test for storage, which simply involves packing the box then giving it a good shake while turning it in all directions. Everything stayed in place.
I'm including two versions of these models:
Split versions with left and right pieces for smaller format printers. You'll want to print 5 of the triangular "splice" pieces (6, if you're like me and prone to dropping one irretrievably into the black hole that is the back of my printing table). A bit of 5-minute epoxy will make the two parts as one. Print 2 of the spacer - I didn't bother making the spacer assembleable as they hold no parts, the two halves just sit nicely in the box.
Whole versions that can be printed as a single piece for larger format printers.
Also, a note to say that I've tried many different variations of shape and size for splice pieces, and I've gotta' say my recent foray into using the triangular shape has me well pleased. It's easy to print flat so you don't have an obvious shear weakness along the radius like you do with a cylindrical splice that needs to be printed upright, and it acts like a keyed join to increase the accuracy of part alignment.