Floating Chess Board - Atlantis Styled
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A floating game of chess. The board consists of buoys that connect but still move freely, Atlantis styled
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- Source
- Printables
- Category
- Board Games
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This is a chess game that you can take with you when taking a bath. The board consists of buoys. They are connected but still can move freely so it's ok to make some waves 😅
The board, with all pieces connected, is 62 x 62cm (24.4 x 24.4 inch)
The Atlantis styled pieces are quite a lot of printing. So a minimalistic chess set is in the making. That will be a lot easier and faster to print, also without supports.
Upcoming improvements:
- The knight is beautiful and prints well, but is fragile. Maybe some thicker coral that attaches more to the body
- Maybe change the right arm of the queen to make it print more strong
- A better bishop, with some more mass. This one is so cool, but kinda small for a bishop.
- An extra set of easy/fast printable minimalistic pieces
Printing
The STLs have printing numbers in the name: 3w-3b means: print 3 in white, 3 in black.
The following print settings have been tested and work for me. They float really well and the bouys click together nice and tight.
- PLA filament
- .4 nozzle
- .2 layer heights
- 10% gyroid infill (or 25% lightning)
- 3 bottom and top layers
- 2 shell walls
The board components are printed without supports. The chess pieces do need support:
- organic supports on build plate only
- overhang threshold: 25
The pieces floated better with 1 layer outer walls, but that does make it harder to print. Maybe I'll try with a larger floating area on the bottom.
I have added gcode files with color-names for the full set with these settings.
Credits
The bouys are my own creation, but all the decorative parts of the pieces are created by much more skilled artists:
- King, Posseidon: Not sure, it was uploaded by “Printable_models” at free3d.com
- Queen, Mermaid: By Robin3dverse
- Bishop, Dragon Turtle: By the talented MZ4250, go check his work here
- Knight, Seahorse: By the talented mr Pater Farell, go check his work here
The seahorse is decorated (and supported) by some coral by Ben - Rook, greek column: By Mugor89
- Pawn, shell: By Dark Heaven
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Changelog
24-04-2024
- replaced the gcode files for the pieces. The queen had a print error.
22-02-2024
- Updated king piece STL file. Made the left arm better printable
- Updated queen piece STL file. There was something wrong with the outer layering wich made the queen render with only 1 shell wall wich made it print badly.
- updated pieces-white, pieces-black gcode files with 10% line infill and the new king/queen
20-02-2024
- Updated King piece. Made the trident thicker to make it print better.