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Terraforming Mars board game and expansions custom box

Terraforming Mars Custom Box

I made a custom box to hold the board game Terraforming Mars and 5 expansions: Venus Next, Colonies, Hellas & Elysium, Turmoil, and Prelude. I also 3D printed city tiles, greenery tiles, and every unique tile. Everything fits in a Pelican 1400 case (including the instruction manuals is right on the threshold of fitting easily).

Components

• Pelican 1400 case
• Case_TreeTray in forest green
  • 32 Greenery tiles by Srifraf
  • 9 Ocean tiles
  • 7 Unique tiles
• Case_CityTray in grey
  • 16 Generic city tiles
  • 30 Unique tiles
  • 1st player marker by hakosalio and original circle markers
  • Colonies with overlay Games_ColoniesV2 remixed from flocor and Trade Fleets Tile
  • Small game boards (Venus Next, Turmoil) and small rulebooks (Venus Next, Turmoil, Colonies, and Prelude)
  • Player mats with overlay by aimfeld
  • Resource cube box by lapiter with ~30 action markers by lapiter
• Case_CardTray in black
  • Player cubes and Turmoil delegates
  • Global parameter tracking cubes and colony tracking cubes
  • Colony freighters (original and custom by Pkrdays, ambug666, and JimmerJammer)
  • Turmoil committee by hd42 and policy tiles
  • Terraformer milestone replacement tile (from Turmoil)
  • Hoverlord milestone and Venuphile award tiles (from Venus Next)
  • All project cards, Turmoil event, Prelude projects, corporations, and the other reference cards
  • Tharsis and Hellas & Elysium maps
  • Base rulebook and Hellas & Elysium rules
• Many space themed stickers

Construction Notes

• My printer was too small for a single print so I split each piece in two and used CA glue to recombine.
• The embossed text on the card tray is hard to read in black plastic, you could paint it
• Printing all custom freighters technically fits in the specified box but takes a while to Tetris it out. You could print fewer freighters or use the miscellaneous cubby.
• My Pelican 1400's bottom and top were warped from the injection molded plastic shrinking. Since its minimum dimensions still matched the provided CAD, I assume it is on all units. I printed two Case_TreeTrayShim and placed them on either side of the case's hump.
• To mitigate short tiles from shifting when the case is inverted, I cut the foam that came with the case to fit the tiles.
• Hand painting the printed tiles requires patience and/or friends. You could print with multiple filament colors as instructed in Srifraf's design.
• The original tiles do not have a reserved cubby. No need to include them unless you expect to have a very intensive ground game in excess of 16 generic cities and/or 32 greenery tiles. There is likely room in the city tray albeit unsecured.