I had some cool paint gathering dust in my storage, not just any old paint, this is iridescent color shifting stuff. So being the, well just being me I decided to do a chess set with a matching board, and so the thinking begins.

I started at where else Amazon and found some 2 inch squares of wood for cheap and began painting. The paint asks for a black base coat before use but I’m way too cool to stick with rules so my white tiles are undercoated in white and gives a very pearlescent look. I like what I see so far.

Next I needed a base of some sort, I wanted a simple square in black that I could seal up for the final step. So back to Amazon for a 16 inch square frame, easy enough except the actual opening is 3/16″ too small, what to do. This is where it gets tricky, I need to trim the perimeter tiles by a 16th of an inch, good work if you can get it.

After a bit of grain alignment and measurements I have this much laid down,

the last 15 border pieces need to lose about and 1/8 of an inch, and then begins the last step.

here we are ready for the casting,

as usual, the photo order is fucked up but at any rate, it shows that some of my casting materials, the fact that I had to level a lot of things out, and if you miss at all things get ruined.

The finish will need to wait a bit, until next time,