Clinton vs Trump Chess Set

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This is a custom chess set with all pieces topped by the head of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump allowing you to pit "red" against "blue" in a political "no-holds-barred" chess match in the comfort of your own living room. Source files also available on github. [UPDATE 10/13/2016: Uploaded cleaner (and smaller!) STL's.] [UPDATE 10/14/2016: Updated Trump pawn due to head not being adequately secured to the body of the pawn, causing the head to break off fairly easily. New Trump pawn has no such design failure.] Print Settings Printer Brand: RepRap Printer: Custom Rafts: No Supports: No Resolution: .15mm Infill: 0% Notes: I print using a .30mm nozzle, 0% infill, 0 bottom fill layers and 10-12 perimeters (using Simplify3D). This leaves a nice indentation in the bottom of the piece into which I place some some heavy material such as small fishing weights and secure it with glue or epoxy. I then finish the bottom off with a round piece of felt secured with double sided sticky tape. I will upload some pictures of the final product when I get a chance to take a few. How I Designed This OpenSCAD! Everything in this thing was generated using the included 'chess-set-generator.scad'. You can generate your own chess set with your own head by first getting your head as a 3D model. Make your model around 30mm in diameter (or as close as you can get). Next, change the script where it says "headfile="..."" to point to your head STL file. Then select a part to generate by setting the 'part' variable to one of: king, queen, bishop, knight, rook, pawn, pawns, set or board. The script is actually ready for use in the customizer but since you cannot upload STL's it is of limited usefulness there.