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ellerThe making of a chessboard! :)
These figures still needed a board... I'm working on it. It's easy. Just slow, because I'm doing it entirely in my work breaks. Fortunately the task is mindless enough that it actually helps me relax!
I really decided on cream and wine red paper. And thank all the listening deities for those paper punch thingies! (I bought them in several sizes because it's already obvious this is not going to be my last selfmade board. There are so many travel sets to be saved!)
That made it easy and fast to obtain 64 little squares. Before I glued them together, though, I had to add ferro foil for the magnets to stick on.
Because my board is 30x30 cm, the foil was a bit small and I had to use two pieces. No problem, though: its handling was easy and unproblematic. And then all I had to do was glue it all together.
For the border, I used grey paper that I'm going to offset with black boundary lines. So, the board not quite finished yet - it still needs protective varnish as well, and I also want to add little letters and numbers - but it already looks like a chessboard! YAY!!!
These figures still needed a board... I'm working on it. It's easy. Just slow, because I'm doing it entirely in my work breaks. Fortunately the task is mindless enough that it actually helps me relax!
I really decided on cream and wine red paper. And thank all the listening deities for those paper punch thingies! (I bought them in several sizes because it's already obvious this is not going to be my last selfmade board. There are so many travel sets to be saved!)
That made it easy and fast to obtain 64 little squares. Before I glued them together, though, I had to add ferro foil for the magnets to stick on.
Because my board is 30x30 cm, the foil was a bit small and I had to use two pieces. No problem, though: its handling was easy and unproblematic. And then all I had to do was glue it all together.
For the border, I used grey paper that I'm going to offset with black boundary lines. So, the board not quite finished yet - it still needs protective varnish as well, and I also want to add little letters and numbers - but it already looks like a chessboard! YAY!!!
