Robbert Bakker modeled the individual pieces but left some details of successful manufacture to the imagination. Then he fell off the face of the earth for a while.* So I created a suitable arrangement of the pieces and tuned their print settings for good aesthetics. I provide here that arrangement and those settings, in the form of a PrusaSlicer project. The settings that I consider most important are:
The army is split into two prints, one for each rank, in order to space the pieces out enough to avoid collisions on a 180x180 bed.
Print two armies in contrasting colors. Bronze vs gunmetal, for instance, or the traditional white vs black. Then glue the back-row chessmen onto my penny-weighted bases.
When you promote a pawn to a queen while the original pawn is still in play, a common convention calls for inverting a rook to use as the second queen. The pointy-topped rooks of this set are unsuitable for that. Print a second queen instead, or better yet use my pawn crown.
If you need a chess board to play on, consider my modular checkerboard or my woodgrain checkerboard box.
For additional pieces necessary for unorthodox or “fairy” variants of chess, see my Courier-Chess Expansion and my other chess designs.
* Shortly after publishing this design around 2017, Robbert disappeared from MyMiniFactory and didn't respond to my inquiries in 2023. He has since resurrected on Printables in early 2024 as Rossero Bertolli.
Take your pick:
My own contributions to this work are hereby placed in the public domain.
The author remixed this model.