Brass Birmingham Retail Insert with Room for Upgraded Industries

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I needed an insert that worked with the excellent 3D industries and player pieces purchased from MyMiniFactory for use in Brass Birmingham. I used parts of several different projects to come up with a system for fitting everything in the dimensionally-challenged retail box with no lid lift.It seems I have thicker tiles/coins from a later (2023?) printing which led to 2 fixes being needed: one of the $1 coins doesn't fit with the other so I made room next to the merchant tiles for it, and the player boxes needed to be taller to accommodate thicker tiles (from the already-available remixes). If you have an earlier version, there may be a little wiggle room above the tiles in the player box but it should be functional still. The insert provides two trays for industries/trains and two trays for canals/barrels/cubes that can be placed on either side of the game table for easy access; just divide the resources/upgraded prints between the two. You’ll have to be deliberate in stacking industries, cubes, player upgrades, etc since everything is a pretty tight fit.The pictures show upgraded industries and player pieces that I purchased (as stl files) which are NOT contained within the files for this project. Here is the link to the purchased stl files for the upgraded parts:https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-brass-lancashire-and-birmingham-tokens-for-filament-printers-stl-files-275110 by Andy at MeepleForgeNote that I had to print the trains, canals and player link tokens at 80% scale to make everything fit in the box (but frankly I think that's probably a better size for them anyway). I also could not print a full complement of these pieces and have them fit in the box, so instead I mostly leaned toward the numbers indicated in his Pragmatic 4-player counts:-8 Iron Foundries-14 Coal Mines-16 Cotton Mills-24 Narrow Boats (at 80% scale)-30 Trains (at 80% scale)-8 Breweries-18 Manufactured Goods-4 Pottery-4 Victory Tokens-4 Income Tokens-60 Link Plinths (at 80% scale)-60 Square Plinths-8 Small Round Plinths (reduced to 15.4mm to fit on victory/income tokens without glue)Here are the projects for inserts that I utilized as starting points for this remix:https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3997817 by c_sharper (most parts)https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4097589 by atlantis_3d (remix)https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6123443 by bechara (remix)https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4170075 by jacug (for coin tray)My gratitude to these individuals for their willingness to share their work which enabled me to pull together this insert. I hope my sharing of this will likewise help someone on their path. Here are the counts needed for each file:-brass_player_box_147.8x61.69x27.58.stl (4 copies)-brass_player_box_lid_146.63x58.1x2.2.stl (4 copies)-Card_Box_142.7x94.98x28.stl (1 copy)-Card_Box_Lid_139x93x2.stl (1 copy)-3_Section_Industries_151x71.35x28.stl (2 copies)-3_Section_Industries_Lid_150.1x67x1.65.stl (2 copies)-3_Bits_Box_136x44.75x18.85.stl (2 copies, one above the other in the box)-3_Bits_Box_Lid_135.18x42x1.8.stl (2 copies)-coins_stand_155.01x44.75x35.5.stl (1 copy)Please reach out with any questions or makes to share 😊