Tuesday 14 January 2020

My new upcycled Waltrop Box

a wooden box

Happy new year!

Going through my children's old toys I found a wooden box which they don’t need any more.

I repainted it, using paints with fancy names like "Lucy in the Sky" and "Cape Town Blue", and glued a map of Waltrop on it.


my new upcycled Waltrop box


I use the box to store some things we need for our Dragon Rampant games: three dice made out of bones to roll for leader traits, a tactical assault & coherency template which was produced by Gale Force 9 in 2008 and a 3" blast template, an object we need when we play with my cousin, because he likes to be very precise with unit coherency.


3 roman bone dice and 2 templates

Unfortunately after painting and varnishing the box the lid bent. I have been trying to straighten it for some time now but it only got worse.

Also, I’m very eager to make a wooden box like this from scratch one day …

4 comments:

  1. Shame about the lid, it looked very good. Perhaps a piece of MDF would slide in to the groove??
    Frohes neues Jahr!

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    1. Vielen Dank!

      I think I just need to be patient and sooner or later C-clamps will do the trick ...

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  2. Great box and the idea of using it.

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