Here is my version of a home-made Pochade Box. I found this wooden box with metal hinges and metal clasps in the local craft store filled with a child’s “intro to art” supplies. All the hardware I found at my local hardware store.
Items 1 is a screw and nut to act as a hook. Item 3 is a screw and plastic bushing to act as a pivot. Item 2 is something called a turn-buckle. Because it has a long screw-thread on each end it allows me a lot of adjustment. I have one turn-buckle on each side that I adjust to make sure I’m pushing against them equally. Item 4, my paper stop, is the little twist thing used to hold screen windows in place. It twists up to hold my 6x8” clipboard and pad of paper. This set up also nicely holds an 11x14 board with a piece of paper held to it with heavy-duty rubber bands.

To close up, the turn-buckles easily unhook from the top screws and the paper stops twists down. A thick pad of foam goes over the pastels to hold them in place, the clipboard with paper goes on top and the lid closes. I also added two “D-clips” on the sides to hook a strap to. Since the box was already made, the only tools I needed were a screwdriver and a drill. (I drilled holes into the wood slightly smaller than the screws to prevent the wood from splitting.)

For the inside, I used adhesive backed foam sheets from the craft store to line the box and make the dividers. If you are wondering what kind of oil pastel those are with the funny labels, those are half-sticks of Hobleins with return address labels wrapped around them to cut down on the messy fingers or masking tape might have worked too.