I had the idea of making a gift for someone. This person hasn’t seriously played a game since the days of the N64, but is really into retro things. While my mind ran through ideas of games to make something from, I thought of different icons from retro games. While some ideas were great, they would have required much more time than I had. Finally, I settled on the idea of a Mario Block. But, that’s boring, so I thought– Hey, I can make it a box to store things in. Awesome, and functional. Woo
The first task was the decide how to construct this box. I decided on corner trim from Lowe’s. It was already in the right shape ( L-shaped) so I just had to miter-cut the pieces to the correct length and angle to make them fit together. I then glued the panels in place. Voila! A box!
Inside the box.
Primed the box and sanded it down a bit for paint application.
Painted yellow with gloss enamel paint from Lowe’s.
The question marks were cast from one question mark that I cut from styrene and glued together to give a 3D effect.
The box, sitting in my workshop, drying with some clear-coat polyurethane.
The lid. Each side of the cube has 4 1cm squares cut, painted, and glued to the surface.
A plush mushroom inside. Surprise!
The completed box!