Board games and 3D printing: A match made in heaven!

I know, quite a departure from the last year of board game playthoughs, but this has come up time and time again so I thought it would be fun to showcase how fun 3D printing can be for the board game enthusiast.
Board games and 3D printing: A match made in heaven!
Pretty sure I said SLS in here somewhere but meant SLA.
Shout out to r/3Dprinting!
#boardgames #3dprinting #microplastics
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0:00:00 Generic useful prints, card and bit holders, bits
0:27:48 My printer setup (via cheap cell phone cam)
0:30:47 3D printed terrain for board games
048:45 Board game inserts
The Cuba Libre insert is this wonderful design: boardgamegeek.com/filepage/24...

[@GeneralKetchup57]

3D printers are great for custom 1st player markers.

[@CeePhour]

Heck yeah they are. My personal story is that the first insert I printed was by "Reverman", a Concordia insert. www.thingiverse.com/thing:2512738 The spacer was a short rectangular block that said "Concordia", but resembled a bar of soap. So we passed it around and called it "the soap". To this day, half a decade or more later, we call the first player marker, "the soap", no matter what it is.

[@chrisdoob]

Great idea! You could do a whole series on games and upgrades/inserts

[@gwgumby]

This video speaks truth! Now you're going to have to learn painting and do another video about miniature painting. Then another video on laminating. Then another on helper apps. Then another on...

[@mort2k]

Love to see this! I have a backlog of stuff to print for my games. Some of these I recognize for sure. The small trays and the stuff for Gloomhaven. I've done a couple 3D models myself actually. Stacking cardholders that can be placed on a "slope" to create gradual height increase. Cards can be placed horizontally or vertically. Still a bit of a VIP. I want to make it less plastic intensive. This vide showed me a couple cool ways of doing just that. Don't really need fully covered bottoms and sides if you want to hold cards. They don't wall through the cracks ;)

[@CeePhour]

Exactly! I printed this insert for a friend with no solid bottoms (Stardew Valley). It works great! i.imgur.com/1CvzxCW.jpg

[@SkywyseCreations]

Great idea for a video... im not sure what i spent more money on at this point... the games or the resin ive made additions with LOL

[@CeePhour]

Speaking the truth! The printer wasn't cheap, but all this plastic averages about USD20 a spool. One thing I failed to mention is how much weight all that plastic adds to these boxes.

[@SkywyseCreations]

Yeh im spending an avg of $25-30 per 1kg bottle. An then of course i have the same pile of half painted prints lol

[@petermcandrew7787]

In your bag of player pieces, what mix of pieces have you built up? I was thinking of doing similar and wanted an idea of the range and numbers of pieces you have.

[@CeePhour]

There wasn't a lot of thought behind the numbers, mostly "did someone model these pieces and could I potentially use them?" It's a healthy mix though. imgur.com/a/9PfF9ok