Boardgame Floor Tile Storage
Making stencil templates with a Cricut Maker
The business end of the Cricut MakerSo fortunately, Santa brought me a Cricut Maker for Christmas.
Yes it’s very much marketed towards a certain demographic, however I think there are lots of uses for a machine like this in hobbying more in line with board games and tabletop games, terrain and building construction tasks. Especially when you consider that you can cut material like balsa wood, thin plastics and simple card stock. So my first job for it is to cut out some stencil type templates for spraying icons into these folders I’m using in this project.
Mansions of Madness IconsI first of all scanned in the various icons for Mansions of Madness and it’s expansions. These will hopefully get sprayed onto the fronts of the folders I have for all the boardgame tiles.
I traced round the icons using Adobe Illustrator and laid them out onto an A4 sized sheet and sent it to the Maker.
Weeding the VinylNext stage is to do the “weeding” as they call it. That’s when you go in and take away all the pieces of the vinyl you don’t need.
The complete setAnd here’s all eight icons ready for the next stage.. I know there is another expansion out, but I’m happy to leave it at eight for now.
The plan will be to use these with gold spray paint and to add the shapes to the fronts of the folders to show which expansion’s tiles are contained within.
There is some sheets of transfer vinyl for lifting and sticking the icons in place, and I’ll try that and see what happens.
The only problem might be the spray paint getting under the vinyl template and spoiling a neat edge.
Is this device able to cut through Polystyrene sheets? How thick can it go?