SoapDoDger's Aristeia!

I was painting some more infinity and the red, white and black got to me. I just needed some turquoise in my life. How could I achieve this you ask? Some 3D counters.

So I opened up fusion 360 and grabbed a obstacle counter. I want to keep the game abstract and accurate to the original vision for the board game. I took the 2D tile and translated it using the available information on the tile into 3D

The version I am showing is version 1.1 as version 1 had some issues with geometry, that being the inverted three sided equilateral triangle. This took 3 hours to work out in maths. Annoying thing is I bet 15 year old me would have sorted it faster. If you are reading this at 15 pay attention to Pythagoras, it may just help you in the future.

I printed out v 1.0 and spotted some issues. Changed this and printed v1.1 it still amazes me that you can conceive design and manufacture something in a matter of hours with automation rather than hand crafts. Also I have no clue as to how I would make this shape any other way apart from a sphere and pegs and some putty.

With that being done I turned my attention to tokens for a moment. I had some 3mm red acrylic so I went to town cutting out some tokens to replace the cardboard wound tokens.

These were drawn in fusion and exported the sketch as a dxf file so I could laser cut this.

I then engraved then cut out the tokens. I painted the 3 in them in white and then wiped off the excess. This worked but it’s not as clean as I want. I used acrylic for the infill but I think an enamel would have worked much better and be more durable. So I will probably revisit this.

Overall a mixed bag very pleased with the obstacles. displeased with the opaqueness of the tokens for photography but they work well in normal light and are pillar box red. The 3’s though that needs some more work. |They are not the quality that I hoped for I may need to do some further research. First time doing infill on an engraving.

More to come. Again perhaps after I have played a game.