Inspired by a link provided by one of the fantastic members here, I was driven on to make boxes for the items I have acquired over the years without any box.

Although not accurate in terms of age and colour etc they do now provide better protection from the elements unlike the newspaper or plastic bags they were previously stored in.
These are the results;


Oh the site I used for inspiration -

http://www.3rotaie.it/3r...tola_Replica.htm#English

I was lucky and only made one lid that would not fit. This quickly became a box as I had not wrapped the M paper round.
BTW I didn't use staples on the flaps - I just used good ole Evostick from the tin.
The M paper I just printed on my home printer on A4 and found it was large enough.
The end identifiers I got by measuring on powerpoint to get the right size and then importing the appropriate picture and adding the item number. That way I could print a number on one page.

I hope this inspires some of you to take up cardboard and get making.
The card cost me approx £1.50 for an A2 size from an Art and Craft shop. The glue was already in the house and I had plenty of ink in the cartridges.
This is when I see empty packages on ebay.de going for £5+ So a fortune saved.

Juhan
yes the lids are wrapped in printed M paper. The template was taken from the site linked in my original post. I then printed it on A4 paper normal gauge paper.
It does look authentic when seen in the flesh, so to speak.

Depending on whether you use best or normal or fast print, will alter the depth of colour and add age to the lid as required.

Hi Mike,

Looks really good.

Ian.

Cool hennabm,

What coincidence, I have made many boxes to date ... all is left to do is the vintage paper ;P

Pix to follow ... Thnx for info !

Yum

Printing directly onto card stock might work. One suggestion I would make is to buy card stock with the desires background color (brown/white) and then only print the red onto the card stock. This would require modifying the original Marklin box pattern to exclude the white parts so only red ink is used.

This process would ideally be done with a single color red silkscreen with the Marklin box pattern directly onto brown card stock.

Paul

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And Mike - congratulations on one truly excellent job - love it !!!

Great work Fumettino !
Now is worlwide famous !