FCM Special Edition Organizer
Hi! I saw your FCM cascading design and I absolutely love it. I'm working on an organizer for the special edition of the game, and I've run into an engineering problem that I think you might be able to help with if you were interested. I'm not rich, but if you were willing to help out, I might be able to offer something as compensation. No worries either way though!
Link to my project: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3751796/constructing-a-special-edition-organizer
The basic idea of my organizer is to house all of the components in a specially built wooden crate with minimum setup time. The design I'm taking inspiration from has a smaller box inside of it that houses all of the employee cards, all separated and ready to go from the start. You can see it here: https://www.theniftyorganizer.com/products/food-chain-magnate-ketchup-expansion-with-milestones-cards-full-wooden-storage-solution?pr\_prod\_strat=e5\_desc&pr\_rec\_id=912f6ecf2&pr\_rec\_pid=5678470135967&pr\_ref\_pid=5678485930143&pr\_seq=uniform
I wanted to keep that for my own design, but even reducing the height of the components as much as possible, it's not feasible to store the cards standing up. Before the employee cards, I'm sitting at 23.9cm of height, with 1.2cm on top of that for the thick wood I'll need for the outer box. I want this all to fit into a Kallax, so that only leaves about 8.1cm for the employee cards.
My first idea was to simply angle the cards to reduce the overall height of the employee box. To achieve a slant, I tried making the cutouts wider to lean them back. Unfortunately, after a lot of trigonometry, even with an interior space of 32x36.6cm (and a 0.3cm wall thickness), I didn't have enough run to get everything in. Thus, back to the drawing board.
If I had a system like yours that could lay in a 32x36.6x(a max of, but anything shorter would be great)8.1cm space that could expand into a display of all of the sleeved employee cards, it would solve the height problem and the quick setup problem. Luckily, the employee cards are the same as for the base game, just with different art.
My question is, would you be willing to design a part/parts to achieve this? You'd obviously have the rights to the design, whether you want to sell it or distribute it for free. All I'd want to do is use one for myself and talk about it in my thread for anyone else who wants to use my organizer. And again, I'd be happy to offer compensation for your time/materials (just nothing too crazy, I'm a delivery driver lol).
Thanks for reading!