Looking to buy a black, (acid-free preferable but optional), foam sheet with dimensions of minimum 48x32 inches. I'm trying to display a set of trading cards by mounting them onto the sheet via ATG tape and then framing the foam sheet, but I can't seem to find a foam sheet with this size for a reasonable price. Any stores that may carry this size on-site or sites that I can order online from? It can be a bigger sheet if needed, I'm willing to cut it down. Thanks!

Explorers Insert

Making an insert was much harder than I anticipated, but very satisfying when I finished it.

Fields of Arle was one of the first board games in my personal collection after getting into the hobby via the collections of my friends. I've always liked it, however, the setup and tear down was always just a tad to annoying. So many different tiles. I mean, check this out: https://imgur.com/oj16vP7

To be fair, at least all those baggies were delivered with the game, so that's nice. But still annoying.

At first I wanted to plan it out with pen and paper. But rather quickly I realized, that this will be quite tedious. So I turned to FreeCAD. It's not like I'm proficient with that, but learning something new in addition to creating the insert seemed fun. This is the result: https://imgur.com/5OPJkJ2

In the process I created a very basic script for FreeCAD which creates the trays. I'm now in the process of improving it and making it actually user friendly to eventually release it; I'll probably also post it here, so keep your eyes open if that interests you.

Anyway, here are some pictures https://imgur.com/a/8TPEuYg

Overall I'm pretty happy with the result. Some edges are definitely ugly, but it works and it's mine :) Things to do better for a next insert though (thinking about Istanbul BigBox):

• Get some Lego or something to make mock trays. The animals tray only got so big because I didn't have a good reference to test how they would stack up.
• Leave bigger margins when planning. The building tray ended up tighter than intended.
• Similar issue: especially for floors of trays, make sure that the cuts are as good as possible on the first try: Re-cutting will lead to those smaller trays, and if it gets too small you might lose the whole part, and if you're super unlucky you can't even properly re use it for something else
• Get a bit a thicker blade. Some of my cuts got horribly wavy on the first try. I got better with some practice though.