Work-Day:

Here follows a stream of photographs detailing the process my block of wood underwent. 

I began by attaching a cut-out piece of paper detailing the scale and general outline of my box using double-stick tape as the adhesive. 

I then cut out this car silhouette from the original 5" x 8" x 2.6" block of solid walnut. 

Next I cut off the two sides. With the remaining middle section I cut off the bottom (which I thought would later become a box, but did not). Then with the top of that middle section, I cut out the middle and hollowed it out. 

(It is only resting on top momentarily for this picture- not attached)

Taking out the bottom middle section (which I had hoped would become the box) I then glued the remaining walls together.

(These handscrew clamps were so much fun to work with!) 

Below is my improvised impromptu revision for the issue of the flaw in my design:

Instead of making the bottom portion into a hollow box in which to place the object, I chose instead to use what little remaining wood I had to created a pedestal of sorts on which to place my object. 

Sanding...

... More Sanding...

(Basically just a ton more sanding followed this)