Pennine Hills Championship 3D Chess Board

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This is a 3-dimensional chessboard which can be configured to represent a hill top or valley or another "terrain" you can dream up. Instead of the traditional black and white, I've used two shades of green to represent the fields and moors of the Pennines. The base is in Sand Gold (all three PLAs from Giantarm via Amazon UK). I sliced in Cura and used the "concentric" pattern for the top surface to get that lovely finish. In the photos, I've used Nestra's fabulous Lewis chess set for illustration. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2802385 The two sets were printed in Eryone Marble and Amolen Wooden PLAs (again sourced from Amazon UK). You'll need to print four of the base pieces. These will click together if your printer is PERFECTLY set up, but the mere mortals among us will have to file/sand the dovetails a little (don't overdo it, you want it nice and tight). You'll then have to print the blocks as follows; TWO of each colour of the 3cm blocks FOUR of each colour of the 4cm blocks SIX of each colour of the 5cm blocks EIGHT of each colour of the 6cm blocks SIX of each colour of the 7cm blocks FOUR of each colour of the 8cm blocks TWO of each colour of the 9cm blocks You can then arrange them in whatever sequence you fancy. I scaled the blocks to 99% in Cura just to ensure they'd all fit comfortably within the base (the lip on the base means there's no risk of them toppling, at least for the "Hill" configuration!) What else? I thought about printing the "white" blocks in several different light shades - maybe some straw coloured or a light lavendar as well as a shade or two of light green to represent the different colours seen on the tops - I think this should work quite well as long as the dark squares are uniform, but haven't actually tried it. With my settings, it took about 900g of each of the green rolls to complete the board, so it's not a cheap print. The base was just a few hundred grams of leftover PLA I had which matched the colour scheme.