Switchbacks (by AllPlay) Board Game Organizer 3D Printer Model

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Summary

This is a fairly simple board game organizer for the game "Switchbacks", sold by AllPlay. AllPlay is amazing. I have a standing policy of buying anything they release. I've never been disappointed. Also, if you like Switchbacks, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Mountain Goats.

I've really enjoyed the game so far, but I always hate having pieces organized into plastic baggies. This design consists of four trays, each sized appropriately to store the 16 blue, 16 red, 11 green, and 8 yellow hiker meeples, as well as storage for your hex tiles. This has been designed so the closed board game box can be turned on its side, turned upside-down, and shaken about vigorously without pieces coming lose and winding up in the wrong compartment — that's been my experience, and will hopefully be yours as well. While I neatly stacked the hiker meeples in the pictures, it works just fine tossing them in haphazardly, too. The hex rack took four prototypes in total to get the dimensions just right, and I'm very pleased with the tolerances — the tiles slip in and out with ease, the rack itself slips in and out of the box with ease, my fingers slip into the designated receptacles of the integrated Phalanges-Assisted Take Out (PATO) unit with ease. It's been a real rewarding journey.

My only regret is that I turned on some nasty ironing settings when printing that final prototype of the hex tile rack, so the top surfaces all look nasty on my print. I urge you to not make the same mistake and risk living with the sort of regret that could only be remedied by printing out another damn hex rack.

Switchbacks__Blue_Hikers_Box.stl 59.3KB
Switchbacks__Green_Hikers_Box.stl 59.3KB
Switchbacks__Hex_Plex.stl 301.1KB
Switchbacks__Red_Hikers_Box.stl 59.3KB
Switchbacks__Yellow_Hikers_Box.stl 59.3KB