Made my brother and sister-in-law a 3D printed Settlers of Catan board.

Finished shot first. Each piece took about 3 hours to print (~60 hours of printing over a couple of months). Then followed the real work of painting.

Each piece has a flat to flat width of about 3 inches. The whole board takes up the better portion of a 24" table. They contain 18x 3mm diameter ball magnets which holds all the pieces together. Took well over 500 of those magnets.

These amazing designs are courtesy of JAWong and Dakanzla and can be found here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1238980

I really liked the way the mountains/ore tiles came out. These were actually some of the easier tiles to paint.

Lots of photos.

Humble beginning. All of the pieces were printed in PLA at about 188C with a heated bed at 68-70C. Printed many of the pieces one at a time. Sliced with Simplify3D and printed on a MakerFarm i3v 8" that I've been using for a couple years now.

First few pieces off the printer. Testing the magnets (that ball at the top). Other miscellaneous projects strewn over the desk.

More pieces. Started the painting. Tried acrylic from Michaels but I really didn't like the consistency. This was my first time painting anything for decoration. I have absolutely no artistic ability. I just followed a couple youtube video tutorials linked in the Dakanzla info and spent a lot of time.

I ended up getting the Liquitex basics on amazon for ~40-50$. Came with 50 or so tubes of various colours. Still took 3 coats of paint to cover the base coat/bare print but the well worth it for the colour options.

First couple of coats of brown on the mountains. Trying out a watered down 'wash' technique for the glacier.

Lots of dry brushing.. These were the first pieces I liked. #RestOfTheFuckingOwl

Trading wood for sheep?

More dry brushing.

Finished the main tiles and moved onto printing the water tiles with translucent blue PLA. I got the least expensive generic Prime-able blue (iPrint 3D). Seemed to work fine without issue.

Figured I should have 1 gif of the printer in action. This is the lighthouse trading post.

Finished print all the tiles. This is probably 2 months after the first print.

Left the tree tiles until the very end because I knew they were going to be the hardest to paint. Lots of small features. I think they ended up turning out really nice though.

Finished tree tiles complete with Aztec pyramid.

Finished sheep tiles.

Finished ore tiles.

Finishes brick tiles.

Finished wheat tiles.

Wrapping up with the ports. Mixed my own washes out of the acrylic and water. Lots of trial and error.

All stacked up and ready to go.

Bonus picture of the settlements/road/cities for each player. These are still on the build plate. They'll get painted with a solid colour spray paint.