I couldn't find a simple round top treasure chest in any of the sets I owned (possibly there are some on the Maiden?).

So I kit bashed up the below, textures have been borrowed from CWU, Pubs&Inns and Shellendrak.

The smaller chest is about 3/4 of an inch wide and the bigger one about an inch wide. Doesn't seem like much difference but the bigger one is noticeably larger. Did 3 different banding colours (copper/silver/gold)



I'll try and toss them into Bob sometime this week .

(the edging bleed pretty badly, trying a new type of pen)

Can you make another set that opens?

I like them, they are really nice.

Very nice. I've also wanted some treasure chests like that. And none of the sets I have have a chest, that includes the maiden.

I second the request for an open one.

Really nice, and thirding (if there is such a thing) the request for an opening chest.

Hmm, I'll see what I can come up with, but it's gone be tough to make them strong enough ..plus making the lid hold close..got a few ideas to try.

I don't have either of them, but don't seaworks and Mayhem bank havechests with opening lids? Perhaps some one can post an outline of the pieces, not the textures.

Looks like a strong box in the bank :

http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/pr ... mm/mb2.jpg


cant find a picy of the seaworks chest, but might pick it up and have a look, no point in reinventing the wheel

Skull Cove has a nice treasure chest (with a more wedge shaped lid) in both opening and closed versions (interior textures are the rim and treasure inserts only):


I'll pick up your version, SirRob, as I think it looks even better and variety makes things look more authentic (the identical, mass-produced look just doesn't cut it for fantasy/historical).

I recently built the Seaworks chest. It's pretty nice but not with a rounded top. The top is shaped like an inverted v. And it comes as an open or closed model.

There are 3 of the chests alomg the wall behind the mini.


I used the paint brush tool to overwrite the texture, leaving just the outline.


I'd be interested in a chest with a round rop kitbash, also.

:uckyjoe

I don't know how well the existing chests close, I assume they stay partly open.

To my mind making the chest 1 piece seems quickest to build. I'd also make the interior lid and bottom as flat pieces. I've tried other full 3D boxes and chests and its very fussy to build. With something this small you'd need to size the interior for the thickness of the card stock.

Heres an pic of how I'd do it:

I haven't got around to lining the lid but here is how it looks so far, the lid holds closed well .



I was going to colour the inside of the lid for the photo but I'm a bit tired .

Hope to have it completed tomorrow night then ill do gold/silver/copper coin inserts and shrink it to fit the smaller chest size . Bit of work left

Thats very impressive. I will be getting this bash.

How long does one take to build?

That's superb, SirRob - a must have in my next WWG purchase.

Bravo! I like it, the gold insert was a really nice surprise.

Just another quick update :



Not that you can see it in the picys but the chests are lined both lid and lower section.

I need to rework the copper coins and try and workout someway of making the chests stay closed when empty with coins no worries but when empty no friction...ideas welcome (tried a few variations on a card lip but afer 2-3 opens it fails.)

Not sure if the small chest will be possible to build openable its a very small and fiddly...

The front surface of the chest could have a small slot exactly at the middle top point along the scoring, with the front not being entirely sandwich-glued directly below it (maybe a slider template needs to be glued in between where the space directly below the slot is cut away). That way, you could add a small strip (like an iron lockpin) to the front of the lid that can be inserted into the chest's front.

Gets a bit fiddly, though.

That was my first thought too. But if the interior lid is attached to the exterior lid when printed, that locking tab would need to be a separate piece added later.

Good point.
Which would make it an optional piece. An optional lock, either with the outside or inside visible, with an integrated pin, which would be glued on when using the slot. Those who don't like fiddly stuff can always build their chest without the lockpin and slot.

Matt Lyon did a nice crate in Urban Mayhem Industrial that can be opened or closed. He did a tab on the lid that slides into a slot on the body of the chest.



Maybe something like that would work, and it's not too fiddly.

Luckyjoe

Longtime no post for me, I'll be finishing this of over the next couple of weeks, basically I went on holiday and came back sick and proceeded to be sick for about the next 4 months turned out I had gallstones anyways had the gallbladder taken out last week and I'm feeling a heap better so back into the paper terrain building etc.

I'd solved most of the technical problems I just need to lay out the chest and submit