[Accrs] Custom Boxes

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Just in case you have some custom models,  or brass models that you have and don’t have original boxes,  I’m attaching some photos of some boxes I made from local materials.   The foam is the premium grade electronics type I had custom cut at Bob’s Foam in Fremont and then glue together with  Dan Tack.


Box material – Arron Brothers heavy stock board – about $5 for a 4’x5’
Box top wrapper – green paper poster board Wal-mart – about $1
Box bottom wrapper – white wrapping paper Wal-Mart 300 ft roll $9.00 or use white poster paper board
Corner reinforcement paper – saved brown paper bags cut to size
3M spray adhesive – Wal-mart about $9.00

Foam – Bob’s in Frement
Dan Tack – foam adhesive,  get from Bob’s $14 or ebay $10

Tools needed are – measurement stick,  straight edge for cutting,  cutter – large X-acto or utility knife, pencil, and a square is helpful.

Then if you have a large table top work area you can make several boxes on a weekend.

The black top box was wrapped with black gift wrap paper – which is not very durable.  The poster type paper is very good -available in green,  blue black, red, yellow.

If you want to learn how/need help make some boxes let me know.

Here’s some pics. . . .


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