I want to make my own chessgame. Please give me some tips!

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:10 am

I want to make my own chess pieces.
For example; I want Henrik Larsson to be the bishop, Jack Black is gonna be the Rook, etc.
I just dont have any clever ideas on how to do it.
I could just print a picture of Jack Black, and add black frame around him (and a Rook-symbol) - but that's boring.
I wanna do something cool. I dont care if the pieces dont look a like - as long as you can see the piece symbol, and the face of the guy/girl, I'm happy.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:26 am

build them up out of clay and paint them is what id do

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:37 am

Great idea, thanks Karl

Now I just gotta make up a good design so I'll be able to stick the pictures on the pieces.

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:10 am

woo! n_n dont forget piccies when you're done

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:49 am

Obfleur wrote:Does anyone have any ideas?

Make a really big board and invite all those guys and gals for a game? Sounds cool enough.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:58 am

Ozz - do you know who Henrik Larsson and Jack Black are - or are you joking?

(it was an awesome idea though)

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:58 am

Ever heard of the Movie Maniacs line from McFarlane Toys? The old ones came with these standing movie posters in frames that were made out of bones and stuff, standing about 6 inches tall. You could roughly use that idea, with a picture in a standing frame on a chess piece base.

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:04 am

Obfleur wrote:Ozz - do you know who Henrik Larsson and Jack Black are - or are you joking?

Yes to both, actually.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:51 am

Ozz wrote: Yes to both, actually.

Hehe. The problem is: I'm gonna send it to someone. I dont think they'll like the idea of being crammed in to a box

Aaron; I'll look that up!

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:33 pm

You could make some cool pieces out of wood and make sure that the top is flat. Then paint/draw/glue the portrait on top.

This will be a lot of work though... unless you buy pieces and customize them.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:04 pm

Soldier-chessmen carrying Jack Black banners might look nice. As a kid I had a Sean Hughes 40K Ork army.

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:48 pm

Eline wrote:You could make some cool pieces out of wood and make sure that the top is flat. Then paint/draw/glue the portrait on top.

This will be a lot of work though... unless you buy pieces and customize them.

This sounds pretty freaking close to what we have in Chinese chess. Only it's words and not pics.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:26 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:As a kid I had a Sean Hughes 40K Ork army.

ace.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:04 pm

Eline wrote:You could make some cool pieces out of wood and make sure that the top is flat. Then paint/draw/glue the portrait on top.

This will be a lot of work though... unless you buy pieces and customize them.

That's a good idea, as most sets have pieces that are roughly generic aside from distinguishing heads.

The Knight, however is often the exception, where its head contains most of the piece's mass. But that's not always the case, and I'm sure some nifty customising can get around that problem anyway.

Good luck, Ob!

Btw, when I saw the topic, I thought this was going to be something along thel ines of making a computer-based chess game. That's a whole other nightmare!

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:27 pm

Im trying to work out how

this

and this

go together in 40k

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:00 pm

Instead of "Ere we go ere we go ere we go", they shout "It's Seanie's Show, Seanie's Show, Seanie's Show"?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:13 pm

They all fly Sean's Shorts as their banners?

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:11 am

Eline wrote:You could make some cool pieces out of wood and make sure that the top is flat. Then paint/draw/glue the portrait on top.

This will be a lot of work though... unless you buy pieces and customize them.

Well, my father is very handy with wood (

), so I could ask him for help.

But right now I think I'll go with the clay (it's the cheapest way).

Thanks everybody - you've been of great help