Fresco Big Box + Expansions Insert

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First statement: Please print at your own risk/do some test printing. Reasons for this will follow. This is for the 1st Edition Fresco: Big Box (2104) and the recent Fresco: Expansion Box (2020) which takes the game to a total of 17 expansions all stored in the big box. I feel like this is my "ugliest" insert to date. I attempted something that I won't do again in the future: start printing before I've finished designing. I was trying to get things finished sooner, but it meant that I had to stick with some design choices made early in the process that might not have been the best. So, yeah, there are some "ugly" pieces in here. One design decision was to try to keep all pieces for expansions together in one tray as much as possible. Side boards do not necessarily apply to this, and at least one tray was split in two -- but for the most part there's one separate tray for each expansion. Expansions are numbered on the side, but base trays are not. There are two major sets of layers in the box. The square layers and the horizontal layers. The square layers are everything that fit in the space of a folded game board. The horizontals fit on top of a couple of the longer side boards. For the most part an entire layer can move up or down as you'd like to have things in the box -- but there are a few things that you might want to keep relative to another layer. I found on printing that some pieces that I KNOW I measured correctly ended up being too small by about 1-2mm along one side -- these were pieces where the side-board was designed to sit on top of/inside the rest of the pieces like a lid. I suspect it had something to do with my printer. I ended up trimming my boards -- you may not be willing to do this. If you don't, some things may not fit quite correctly. CAVEAT EMPTOR/BUYER BEWARE. I am assuming this will not be stored on its side. That assumed, you probably don't need to print and add the lifter pieces unless you want to make certain the box meets a shake test. I'm a little weird, and I like to make sure the box is "full" to make sure that pieces don't leave their locations -- so the good news is that there's plenty of space for even more expansions. The bad news is that you need to print a fair amount of "air" if you want a filled box. Again, kind of an ugly insert with lots of differently sized pieces requiring a few random spacers and then quite a few box fillers/lifters. But it worked well enough for me and I'm happy with it.

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