by tmeysson

A complete chess set, board and pieces.
The board comes in four parts and can be assembled and disassembled at will. Check out the instructions on how to create the parts from the printed material.
Almost all of the pieces print directly without support, except for the Knight (because of its nose). The Knight's body and head have to be printed separately, but assembly should be straightforward.
Read the 'post-printing' section to make the most of this.

All in all, it's a chess set that can easily be carried around in a small, A5-sized box.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:                      

Prusa

Printer:                      

Prusa Clone

Rafts:                      

No

Supports:                      

No

Resolution:                      

0.2

Infill:                      

100%

Notes:

If the pieces are printed out of Wood/PLA, only print one at a time to avoid excessive stringing.

The spaces can be printed on a glass surface to get a perfectly flat finish, very beautiful.

Post-Printing

Printed the pieces out of Wood/PLA, with 100% infill to give more weight, then painted them black and white with 2 layers of a mixture of stain and water-based paint. Other techniques or materials can be looked into, least of all printing with black and white PLA.

Printed the board base (X4) out of wood too, then the spaces -- 32 white PLA, 32 black PLA. The spaces have to be glued to the board base in good order (two pieces have a black square at the corner, the other two have a white square at the corner). The wooden base took some reworking to be in perfect shape, but I like the effect.

Definitely file the board base pieces so they will assemble nicely, with some friction but not too much, before you glue the spaces in place. After that it will be much harder to do. In my case it worked like a charm, my board stays together and doesn't require much strength to put together.

I glued whatever had to be glued with cyanolite glue, worked very well, after three weeks nothing's come apart.