Skull Tanks Chess Set

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The animal skulls at RISD Nature Lab inspired me to make this chess set. I wanted to feature these evolutionary artifacts in some artistic form, without decorating or modifying the skulls too much. But I've obviously indulged in stuffing a great number of guns and bombs and turrets beneath them, in preparation for the final wars at the end of the space-dinner-time-continuum. The aesthetic is 1970's Bakshi's Wizards, TSR's Gamma World, Sterling Lanier's Hiero's Journey, and the 1981 film Heavy Metal (which my mom took me to see when I was 15 - what torture). I have successfully printed it all out, although the pictures (and my crappy printer) don't do it all justice. I printed the kings and queens at 11 cm, the bishops at 9 cm, the rooks and castles at 5-6 cm, and the pawns at 3-4 cm high. Everything is printed on its back. Some of the credits are: "Rhinoceros skull" (https://skfb.ly/WnN7) by University of Dundee Museum Collections is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike "Hippopotamus skull" (https://skfb.ly/QCSo) by University of Dundee Museum Collections is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike "African Forest Elephant skull" (https://skfb.ly/PPNH) by University of Dundee Museum Collections is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution "Muskox skull" (https://skfb.ly/PKwW) by University of Dundee Museum Collections is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike "King Vulture Skull" (https://skfb.ly/6Tp7T) by RISD Nature Lab is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution "Barred Owl Skull" (https://skfb.ly/6Tp7L) by RISD Nature Lab is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/t-rex-skeleton-leo-burton-mount https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/german-flakpanzer https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/swedish-s-tank-stridsvagn-103-1-100 https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/aeronautica-imperial-ork-weapons-bits https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/helicopter-ch-47-chinook https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/thorax-and-pelvis-real-ct-scan-male https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/easy-print-flak-88 https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/easy-print-btr-70 If I have left out credits for something I have nicked from you, please tell me and I'll update this.