![]() ![]() If you look for them they are all over the place but beware! The box art shows transparent plastic for the stages (which is the very first version and IS correct but almost immediately they changed them to a red color which is the only version available) Though they changed the color from transparent to red, the box art remained the same. The platforms comes from the very first version of space checkers. I've researched this thing to death! I think this may help you on your quest. This is an ambitious project and I love that someone is going to attempt a realistic version of it. The chess set is usable, but painting will have to wait until weather warms up and I can use spray paint. I used chicago screws to mount the boards on the aluminium, and wood screws to fix the aluminium to the plastic stand. Here's the taped-up chess set with pieces.īut tape will never do, and I had to remove the pieces right after taking the picture due to the boards starting to tilt. Personally, I use a brass pipe and those little shelf board holders that are just a 18x5mm piece of steel.įollowed by the test-fitting of main board, pegs, and two attack boards. So, how get the attack boards mounted on the main boards? (Yes, I know there are only four in the picture) So I went through my left-over parts from other projects, and dug out enough PVC foamboard to cut into the three main boardsĪnd five attack boards. Mounted on the globe stand, it looks like this.Īlready looked somewhat like a three-dimensional chess set. The next step was to find a suitable third arm to replace the cardboard.Ī visit to the store later, I have a flat aluminium profile of 15x2mm, and proceed to bend it in shape with my high-tech bending equipment. That is a globe stand (globe off ebay, about twelve dollars), and some cardboard and tape mock-up. ![]() This was perfect, not only did it show me the angles and everything, but it also gave a possible explanation to the legendary "Queen to queen's level three" move.īut then I noticed, doesn't that somewhat look like a globe stand? There is the option of buying one, but I can think of many better ways to spend the five hundred bucks for something that's not even a replica of the screen-used prop.Īnd while researching how to build (and later play) this variation of chess, I found this picture. ![]() For ages now, I have wanted a three-dimensional chess set as seen in the original Star Trek series. ![]()
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