Great; I hope you do. It's very much a prototype, but at the same time the only one I'm ever likely to make, so it would be fantastic to see variations on the theme.
And very much prettier than the ugly colored official 3D Catan.
Thanks; the colour choices were based on the 4th edition, but the flat colours end up looking quite bright. It's not distracting to play, though; the main problem is settlements & cities hiding behind the ore mountains!
...dice rolling... "It's a nine!" "Oh no, not another "love"!"
Edit: spelling and forgot to say: awesome work!
I know. It's kind of buried in the build documentation, but here's what I wrote about that tile:
"3 brick tiles. The holes are supposed to evoke a quarry. I'm very annoyed with the random shape I cut out for the central tile, because after it was painted red my daughter told me how much she loved that one because it looked like a heart. Argh!"
Thanks for all your great comments & generosity, much appreciated. I'm glad I posted the picture (though I'm still mystified as to how everyone found it...).
Answers to questions:
johncraven: the harbours are 3D, I guess you mean the ships? I decided not to model anything other than the board - I tried making ships but gave up after one, because - as ridiculous as it seems, given the rest of the board - they seemed crazily out of scale.
innovan: theritzes is correct, the hills = sheep. My daughter wanted settlement-sized white blobs, but I overruled her on that one.
someotherguy: rules for Lego Indy - whenever you rob someone, you shout "THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!"
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. - GKC
If it's made from plywood, it could be uploaded to Ponoko and manufactured:
Very cool! But, a question: how do you randomize the "tiles" when you set up the game?
You could grab resource cards and maybe a dev card for the desert to match each tile. Then shuffle them and place the tiles down in the order of their matching resources.
Very cool! But, a question: how do you randomize the "tiles" when you set up the game?
You could grab resource cards and maybe a dev card for the desert to match each tile. Then shuffle them and place the tiles down in the order of their matching resources.
Monteslu has a clever method, but because we have the unused tiles from the game, we can just shuffle them. However, it is still sufficiently a novelty that we're setting it up non-randomly and playing, e.g. my son's BC/Alberta set up, below:
This particular "Scenario Settlers" played out remarkably ordinarily!
That's a good idea, but... I checked out Ponoko before beginning the project, and I couldn't find plywood on their material list. As I understand it, 3 mm ply is about the limit for reasonably speedy laser cutting. Ponoko does have mdf and veneered mdf, but the edges of mdf are soft and I'm not sure how well it would stand up. The acrylic (plexiglass) comes in 1/4", and I think an all-acrylic board would look fantastic.
Very cool! But, a question: how do you randomize the "tiles" when you set up the game?
You could grab resource cards and maybe a dev card for the desert to match each tile. Then shuffle them and place the tiles down in the order of their matching resources.
That's how we do it with my 3D Catan set. Easiest way.
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. - GKC
mcannos wrote:
overtheboard wrote:
If it's made from plywood, it could be uploaded to Ponoko and manufactured:
That's a good idea, but... I checked out Ponoko before beginning the project, and I couldn't find plywood on their material list. As I understand it, 3 mm ply is about the limit for reasonably speedy laser cutting. Ponoko does have mdf and veneered mdf, but the edges of mdf are soft and I'm not sure how well it would stand up. The acrylic (plexiglass) comes in 1/4", and I think an all-acrylic board would look fantastic.
I meant more if it was made of cut sheets it could be replicated on Ponoko... not out of wood specifically. Acrylics would be amazing...
Anyway, this is awesome. I'd much rather have something like this than the 3D Catan collector's edition. Of course, it should go without saying that this custom set is much more unique, what with its painstakingly crafted wood hexes.
