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My name is Matthew LaBerge, I live in beautiful Minneapolis, MN.

I work in the Semiconductor Industry as a Sr. Mechanical Designer.

In my spare time I design, build and operate my own 3D printers for fun and profit.

Thursday
Jan192012

Settlers of Catan 3D Game Board

A little over a year ago Thingiverse user Sublime uploaded a complete 3D Settlers of Catan game board, I have been working towards completing my set since the day he released it. I can finally announce that I have completed the set and its ready for game play.

I'm not that happy with how most of the game tiles came out, I still don't have my dimension setting completely ironed out, and most of the tiles were printed when geared extruders on MakerBot electronics were in their infancy. The tiles however are extremely dimensionally accurate, and fit together perfectly. I will probably try and replace a bunch of the tiles with ones of better print quality later.

I filled the number tiles with black puff paint normally used on fabric, it worked perfectly for filling in the deep numbers and was also very easy to clean off parts that I didn't want painted. I also modified the number six tiles by adding an orientation dot, I could have purchased another color of puff paint but didn't think of that till I had already modified the tiles.

I designed an interlocking border based on one designed by Thingiverse user Mraiser my design is lower in profile, matching the height of the sea tiles border, it also has a nice beveled edge.  I plan on creating a varient that has built in pockets for the resource & development cards.

 

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