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Cool board game customizations
« on: August 15, 2020, 11:21:04 »
Inspired by Chris' (Tylerchuit) use of old POGs to indicate cities in Power Grid that were not in use for a game, yesterday I printed some cloud shaped tokens to use for my own set. I found these on Thingiverse as lids for a physical "Cloud Storage". I saw a few different things on that site, but settled on printing the 2nd lid in the set from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3243995. I tried resizing it to 40mm, 30mm, and 30mm only 1mm high. I think resizing it to 30mm wide, leaving the height alone, made it the best. I'll include a photo with this post.

Also, while I was looking around, I came across a site that had a really cool custom centerpiece for Puerto Rico, styled like a shipping port. I'll include a photo of that here too, but suggest checking out more at https://www.boardgamesenhanced.com/blog/2015/12/16/3d-puerto-rico-board-game-seaport
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Re: Cool board game customizations
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2020, 14:14:37 »
Stone Age

If you're looking for 3d printable things to enhance your Stone Age boardgame, here are a couple suggestions that I've tried myself. First, my most recent addition to my game collection:

Stone Throne by DanielRobert
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4578080
I've been looking for a nice alternative for the cardboard chieftain, which constantly falls apart. Printed using "silver" filament, this turned out like a great replacement.


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Re: Cool board game customizations
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2020, 14:17:50 »
Stone Age

The second set of 3d printable things that I recommend for Stone Age are the these, which I printed before, all white, but added color to the edge of each to match the resources they were intended for:

Stone Age Bowls by MrFuFu
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2803701
Just to keep the table organized, this set of bowls turned out nicely.
"Hello IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again? ... OK, well, the button on the side. Is it glowing?... Yeah, you need to turn it on. Err, the button turns it on. Yeah, you do know how a button works, don't you? No, not on clothes." - Roy (The IT Crowd)