Floating Chess Board - Atlantis Styled

This is a chess game that you can take with you when taking a bath. The board consists of buoys. They are connected but still can move freely so it's ok to make some waves 😅

The board, with all pieces connected, is 62 x 62cm (24.4 x 24.4 inch)

The Atlantis styled pieces are quite a lot of printing. So a minimalistic chess set is in the making. That will be a lot easier and faster to print, also without supports.

Upcoming improvements:

• The knight is beautiful and prints well, but is fragile. Maybe some thicker coral that attaches more to the body
• Maybe change the right arm of  the queen to make it print more strong
• A better bishop, with some more mass. This one is so cool, but kinda small for a bishop.
• An extra set of easy/fast printable minimalistic pieces

Printing

The STLs have printing numbers in the name: 3w-3b means: print 3 in white, 3 in black.

The following print settings have been tested and work for me. They float really well and the bouys click together nice and tight.

• PLA filament
• .4 nozzle
• .2 layer heights
• 10% gyroid infill (or 25% lightning)
• 3 bottom and top layers
• 2 shell walls

The board components are printed without supports. The chess pieces do need support:

• organic supports on build plate only
• overhang threshold: 25

The pieces floated better with 1 layer outer walls, but that does make it harder to print. Maybe I'll try with a larger floating area on the bottom.

I have added gcode files with color-names for the full set with these settings.

Credits

The bouys are my own creation, but all the decorative parts of the pieces are created by much more skilled artists:

• King, Posseidon: Not sure, it was uploaded by “Printable_models” at free3d.com
• Queen, Mermaid: By Robin3dverse
• Bishop, Dragon Turtle: By the talented MZ4250, go check his work here
• Knight, Seahorse: By the talented mr Pater Farell, go check his work here
  The seahorse is decorated (and supported) by some coral by Ben 
• Rook, greek column: By Mugor89 
• Pawn, shell: By Dark Heaven
   

Some love

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❓Feel free to ask questions or suggest changes that make the model work for you

Changelog

24-04-2024

• replaced the gcode files for the pieces. The queen had a print error.

22-02-2024

• Updated king piece STL file. Made the left arm better printable
• Updated queen piece STL file. There was something wrong with the outer layering wich made the queen render with only 1 shell wall wich made it print badly. 
• updated pieces-white, pieces-black gcode files with 10% line infill and the new king/queen

20-02-2024

• Updated King piece. Made the trident thicker to make it print better. 

The parts remixed are converted to floating chesspieces. The Greek columns and corals have been modified to fit. The mermaid has been thickened a bit to be better printable in this small scale. The dragon turtle and seahorse have been placed in some coral that supports the overhangs. The Posseidon has been thickened at some places and the arm was turned so it touches the body and thereby is better printable in this scale.