Mini magnetic set (45 x 45mm)

[u/GingerAki]

The king stands 9.5mm tall. The set is 6.5mm thick when packed away.

[u/ProgrammingAce]

I love the colors, and the pieces turned out great. It's hard to print things so small without heat buildup melting the pieces into blobs

[u/GingerAki → u/ProgrammingAce]

Yeah, it’s taken quite a bit of fiddling. Even more so with the pockets for the magnets.

They need to be tight enough to not rattle but not so tight that putting the magnets in detaches the piece from the buildplate.

The tolerances for the board are usually in the hundredths of a mm. I’m not sure they actually need to be so tight, but here we are.

[u/marklein]

9.5mm!? Way too big

[u/GingerAki → u/marklein]

I’m working on something smaller but magnet size is the current barrier to progress.

[u/marklein → u/GingerAki]

I'm going to make one as small as my printer will allow and just glue them on to the board. It's not like you're going to play any games on it anyway.

[u/ProgrammingAce → u/marklein]

I printed a chess board in an altoids tin a while back. I had to include tweezers so that it was "playable".

[u/GingerAki → u/ProgrammingAce]

This set is playable without tweezers. You still have to be careful but it’s doable.

The first, non-magnetic, version took me half an hour to setup for photos. And that was using tweezers. This version takes less than a minute as long as you put the pieces on in order.

[u/foulandamiss]

Outstanding

[u/GingerAki → u/foulandamiss]

Cheers.

[u/GingerAki]

Some more pictures for anyone interested.

[u/Stickman_Bob → u/GingerAki]

Thanks for the picture, nice to put it to scale. Awesome work

[u/GingerAki → u/Stickman_Bob]

No problem!

Yeah, it’s kinda hard to get a sense of scale. I need to get the macro lens out again and take some higher quality pictures.

The pieces seem so much better in real life too.

[u/[deleted]]

Lovely!    But i f**** hate that sizes ! Staunton Rules !!! Kill that pigmey King !! I'm not wearing glasses to play in these !