First steps into Flames of War V4
Progress on the army case
This week i have been mainly working on a way to store my Flames of war force in an old ammo case that i found at war and peace.
I was thinking of making wooden trays, but at work we had a delivery that was delivered in super strong card box’s. So doing my bit for the environment i liberated a few boxes to recycle into trays.
I was planning on using a hot glue gun to fix the card together, the only problem there was that i do not own one, as I’m quite impatient i decided to use pva glue with pins added to hold it together as the glue dried.
This made pretty strong trays that fit nice and snugly into the case they were a little to snug so removing them was a problem. To fix this i made handles using wooden bbq skewers, i just pushed them through the sides and added a blob of glue to hold them in place.
Once the glue was dry i wrapped the trays in newspaper and coated the whole thing in pva glue.
It was then time to paint them using cheap green acrylic paint, I’m pretty pleased with the finish the only thing left to do now is add a magnetic base to each tray to hold the models in place. I may also add some foam around the inside just incase anything decides to slide around in transit.
There is more than enough room to hold my 100 point force with a little space left for dice, tape measure and tokens. I was not able to make space for the rule book, but I’m still pretty pleased with the results.
Looks good! I would recommend getting a hot glue gun at some stage, they really are a useful bit of kit.
A hot glue gun would be useful, not sure i can be trusted with glue and heat ?