Some of you already know that one of my other favorite games to play is Zombicide. For those of you who might not be familar with Zombicide, it is a cooperative game were the players are survivors during the zombie apocalypses. It is also a game with a lot of minis and parts to it.
With so much 1st Ed stuff in my collection, I was finding that it took up lots of room when we would play a game. There was always stuff all over the table and I had to setup another small table to put my trays of zombie minis on. It was never very organized and just took away from my game experience some.
So I decided to build crate with drawers in it. My thoughts were that the crate could be on casters and I could roll it over to our dinning room table when we played. I'd keep the trays of minis in the drawers and just open them up and get out the minis as we needed them. Having them in vertical drawers keeps the amount of space needed down.
So this is what I came up with...
The crate is on four swivel casters so that it is super easy to move around (it weighs a ton) the other furniture and store in my game closet.
It is made of 1/2" Baltic birch plywood and 3/4" pine trim. I used my table saw to cut grooves for the fake wooden planks. Everything was sanded down to 220 grit and then I beat the crap out of everything to "weather" it. I then applied my base paint colors. Once those were dry, I painted all of the distressed wood grain on everything. This process also filled in all the dent and dings I had beat into it with dark paint, making everything look old and beat up.
I thought it would be nice to have a place to keep the rule books and compendiums handy during game play, so I built a compartment on top to house them. The curved shape hinges hold it open and keep my fingers from getting smashed.
I still store all of my game tiles and tokens in the game boxes, so I kept a place at the bottom for me to store those. As you can see, the front panel slides up and off to give access to the drawers. Doing this instead of a typical hinged door keep the foot print of the crate down and meant I did not need a lot of room between the wall and the game table to park this thing.
With the front panel off you can see the five drawers that hold my mini trays. I thought about labeling each drawer with the type of zombies in it, but I thought I might like to change that around in the future, so I laser engraved some biohazard logos on each draw and will just remember which zombies are in which drawer.
I can fit two of the foam trays I made into each drawer. My lowest drawer currently only has one tray in it, so I am also storing my Character Cases in that drawer as well.
This project took a lot of time to build and paint (time I probably should have spent painting zombies!), but it was really fun and now I have a cool place to store all my Zombicide games.
Thanks for having a look at my Zombicide Crate even thought it is not Wings related!
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