I figured they’d be a good start for testing the painting process out. Most tiles have five or six of the same design (fields for wheat, forest for wood, quarries for brick, mountains for ore and pasture for sheep) however the Desert tiles are only repeated twice. There are 30 tiles, and I planned to hand-paint them all.
Here’s the cut hexes and ports after they were primed in white. There are lots of the right-angled triangles left over, but I have ended up using the scrap material for laser-cutting all of my small pins and brooches. However we ended up with a little more waste as we were only able to yield 9 hexes per board. The corners of each rectangle were then taken off to make the hexes.īy doing things this way we minimised the times we needed to change the settings on the saws and better ensured that the pieces would be uniform. The strip off the end was used to make the port triangles.įrom those strips, rectangles were made. He suggested that if we were to cut all of the hexes in bulk it would be easier to do the following:Įach board was sized to the width of three hexes. I asked my dad for help cutting the pieces out using his table saw and mitre saw.
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From a 1200mm x 900mm board, I initially thought that I’d be able to get 11 hexes per board, cutting them like so:Īs you can see from the animation, I was not sure how to release the third piece from the group. I started by cutting the hexes from 3mm MDF.
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It’s also quite aesthetically pleasing, so I planned that if at some point I failed to complete the project or if there was no interest in playing the game I would still have a series of nice-looking tiles that could be used for display. While I am personally not a huge fan of Catan, it’s an iconic board game that served as introduction to the hobby for many people.
I started this project back in November of last year. In case it’s not obvious from that photo, I built a giant set of Catan. (The game formerly known as Settlers of Catan) With the end of the month rapidly approaching, it’s time to bite the bullet. Then I kept putting off the post because it felt too big to tackle. This post was initially going to be a week’s worth of posts, then I felt that was a cop-out so decided I should make it all one post.
I will explain the basic ones for the original game, found in the tokens_original_resources_final file.Let’s finish Blaugust with a bang. Other changes would be simplifying the design on the 3rd tier knight, as it is a little too complex for such a small token and ends up engraving pretty deeply into the wood.Īs you can see, there are various tokens. If I were to do it over, I would change how the roads were cut since I had some overlapping lines which took an unnecessarily long amount of time to cut. I'll keep the old files up, but I recommend using Jared's.įor this step, I used CorelDraw which worked well for me. I've included that file as catan_complete_board.ai. *EDIT* Shout out to user JaredB71 for cleaning up the tiles and converting them to Adobe Illustrator. Note that the attached files include pieces for the Cities and Knights expansion). Using your favorite vector editor, create your design! (Or use the attached ones from CorelDraw.
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