When Scythe first showed up on my doorstep I was excited to give it the foam core treatment. The excitement faded as I saw the custom storage solutions already included. It faded more when I realized that an insert wasn’t going to help much with set up since all the pieces ended up on a board in some form or fashion. I concluded that the current storage for the game was good enough for now.
Then the expansion came out and I wanted to fit the game all in one box. My interest in organizing it came back and the result is what you see below.
To be clear, this insert accommodates everything in the Kickstarter Collectors Edition and the first expansion (Invaders from Afar). That means premium resource tokens, metal coins, and the board extension.
The insert you see below does not accommodate sleeved cards but I have included instructions in the plans that will. It also features a tray for the coins. Included in that tray are the explore tokens so you can place them back in as you take them off the board. It has two resource trays so you can spread them out a bit. Each player will receive a tray of plastic and wooden bits to place on their faction and action boards.
REQUIRED TOOLS/MATERIALS:
5mm Foam Core
Self-healing cutting mat
Metal ruler with cork back
Elmer’s Glue All
Retractable Utility Knife
Dressmaker pins
If you haven’t built a foam core insert before check out our Foam Core Basics post.
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Hello, thank you for your plans to create our own foam core projects!
one question about the Scythe foam core insert: does the sleeved version of your plans account for the promo cards in terms of measurement?
Regards
Evan
Hi Evan. The plans are based around the Kickstarter Collectors Edition. I know that some of the cards you can get now as promos came with that edition but I do not know if others have come out since then. If others have come out then they are not taken into consideration in the plans. That does not mean they might not fit – it just depends on how many there are. Hope that helps.
I am currently building this insert with the sleeved card plans. I would like to mention that the part, PLAYER BOARDS – CONSTRUCTION it mentions ( Make all player and resource trays 98mm ) This must be a mistake. When you try and add the player boards at that length, the area where G & F meet is about 8-10 mm to small. My boards actually slide under the area labeled E. and push G all the way out of the way. I wish we had better instructions for the sleeved version as it does seem to have some issues.
Hi Eric. I’d like to help but I’m not following your comment. I checked the plans and nowhere on the page for PLAYER BOARDS – CONSTRUCTION (page 7) does it mention the player and resource trays. This is mentioned on page 14 with the SLEEVED – COMPLETE instructions. You shouldn’t modify the Player Boards storage area to accommodate sleeved cards. The only thing that should change is the width of the card storage (increase to 38mm) and the width of the player and resource trays (decrease to 98mm). These measurements are shown on page 14 (SLEEVED-COMPLETE).
I’m sorry if something wasn’t clear. Please let me know if I can help in any further way.
If you read the sleeved instructions on page 14, it reads as if PLAYER TRAYS ( the player and resource trays this is on page 14 ) needs it measurements changed. Could you tell me what the player tray is?
Make sure I got it right from your instructions, if I make a new A 285mm x 111mm, the one I made is 285mm x 98mm and then make the resource trays 98mm and I should be fine then?
Thank you for your help!
Player trays contain the plastic and wooden pieces for each player. In the image on p.14 they are labeled as Player-Plastic and Player-Wood. These need to be 98mm wide. The boxes for the resources also need to be 98mm wide.
Your Player Board section should be 285×111.
Hope this clears things up so you can finish your build!