Cherub Chessboard

a Gio shenanigan
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Board on box

Is it magic? Maybe a little!

Board-only top-down

Piece close-up

Want one?

You can't! It's mine for me

Only I have them and I am going to keep making more until that's all there is

magnets

Contributors

Design, board engineering, prodution, etc by Gio

Piece models by Hadronus

Box engravings by Zara Nerd

Web inspiration from EGGRAMEN

Close-up green piece lineup

tiny banana for scale

Tiny banana for scale (plus engraved coordinates)

a worse strategy game than polytopia

Details

  • 20 mm squares
  • 104 magnets
  • Silk PLA pieces (shiny)
  • PLA+ board and cells (matte)
  • ~14 mm pieces
  • 4 rooks, 4 knights, 4 bishops, 2 kings
  • 4 + 2 queens, 16 + 2 pawns
  • Felt-lined compartments
  • Magnetic lid
  • 64 individually-magnetic cells
  • Embedded magnets in each piece
  • The magnets are the right way around

hadronical!

Plain board and box, no pieces

Felted board

Felted storage box