Catan pieces

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I started searching for Catan bits. There are many wonderful player sets; modern, medieval, ancient. I printed a few sets and something became apparent immediately - all the detail is lost when the piece is printed with an intense color. The details were lost in red, black, yellow, dark blue - in fact, most colors. A neutral color must be used if you want to see the detail. But if you use grey or white for buildings how do you include player color? The answer is in these designs of mine - colored bases. These pieces were designed to be printed in two colors. (You can, of course, print them entirely in player colors or paint them.) If you want to do as I have done and don't have a 3D printer that can print in two colors, then you will need to do a filament change. Notes on a filament change If you have never done this it's not difficult. After importing a stl file into your slicer do a preliminary slice. Then preview it to determine at what layer the buildings clearly begin. For me it was the 21st layer (see image). Once you have figure out the correct layer you are good to go as all pieces will have the filament change at the same layer. Then use post-processing options (what Cura calls them) and select "pause at height". An image is attached of my Cura settings. I recommend doing test prints of a single piece until you are comfortable with the filament change process.