With the ship of the line project nearing completion, I am turning my attention to the next big assembly, utilizing my collection of Hexton Hills terrain tiles. These are 3d printed designs for terrain, intended for use in a large scale campaign map. It is a kickstarter I participated in some time ago, but have never really dug into. My intent has always been to recreate the Varisian map for Pathfinder in this format, as a large art piece for the gaming space.
To start with though, I am going a bit smaller in scope, and creating a 3d Settlers of Catan board instead. With a combination of FDM printed tile frames and resin printed terrain tiles, the intent is to fill out the 19 tiles of the game board. This is small enough to handle in a short period of time, and still make solid progress – and small enough that painting the pieces should not be too challenging as a draft for the larger project.
To that end, I printed up a set of tiles frames, from a design by chanson836. These each fit the default size of the Hexton Hills tiles nearly ideally, and include a magnetized option for holding the game board together.
The resin pieces are now underway, I expect to have those finished by the weekend, when I can start the painting phase.
