Shanlyn and I have made a habit lately of playing a nightly game of chess with a glass of wine...and decided that our old chessboard was just a little too "un-cephy", so here is our new one in progress...watercolour over plaster over board...lots of $%^&* dots to go! Of course, she wanted a "grecian" feel to it, like a tile mosaic. (at first, she wanted an actual tile mosaic board...I explained how much I would have to charge her for that, and she settled for the painted variety! :D )
Don't worry...I will post only the pg version here !
Greg

Sweet. 8)
Are you designing your own pieces too?

Hey, cool, Steve and I kicked around an idea for a marine chess-set... we thought invertebrates vs. vertebrates (you know, Meso or Archi king, Haliphron queen, some p(r)awns, jellyfish bishops and the like... vs. sperm whale king, maybe turtle queen, with seahorse knights and stuff). Still might someday... that's what Fimo's for, after all...

:idea:

Wow. Greg, I'm quite impressed (again).

That's really nice. :D

Greg, it's beautiful. You've outclassed us all again! As a kid, I "helped" my father make a big chess board, but it was nothing like that! Just a big piece of plywood with a grid, and I got to put some of the stain on the black squares. Hardly a work of art. :lol:

Melissa

Hey, as long as you stayed within the lines... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yep, I am going to sculpt the pieces also...just a derivative of the classic Staunton pieces though...any thoughts or inspirations are more than welcome!
Just finished dotting the octo...will post more pics tomorrow!
Greg

How about Neil and Frank pieces :D. The opposing kings, perhaps?

Very nice board there!! 8)

My vote, however, is for a neptune piece somewhere. It doesn't even have to be a king. :o

How long did it take for all thoose dots :shock:

What, you like Neptune or somethin'?


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How about Neil and Frank pieces :D. The opposing kings, perhaps?

LOL

For the pieces howabout mermaids versus the cephs? Just like the chess board. Would it be confusing to see which is a "black" or "white" square? Nice work Greg

I like that idea...hmmm...lots of sketching to do!
LOL about the Neil/Zappa bit...I guess I could make either Um or Dr. SOS the queen piece? :D
Greg

:cool:

thats well cool :D

takes the mick outta my chessboard i once made at uni with a huge rug and a million bottles of wine, which i had to make little heads for so we could tell what the peices were!! :lol:

funny, it was all on a very hung over sunday when i decided to do sumthin constructive! took me all day :lol: :lol:

Scouse, that sounds pretty :cool:. I may do something like that in my dining room. Nobody every dines in it, and I've got a lot of spare beer bottles. I'll have to play against myself, which is OK since I'll only lose half as often.

I may do something like that in my dining room. Nobody every dines in it, and I've got a lot of spare beer bottles. I'll have to play against myself, which is OK since I'll only lose half as often. :lol: :lol:

That sounds sensible, only mine was in the livin room an stayed there for a few weeks with everyone havin to step over it all the time. it forced my mates, as potential opponents into opponents all the time so they had to make use of it :lol: :lol: :lol:

more dots now...still quite a ways to go...but, isn't the journey half the fun?????

:shock: a lot of dots!!!!

It looks great! 8)

Dots are done...now to start on the glazing for the squares...nothing more fun than painting with toxic fumes! Then, the frame !
Greg

That looks amazingly 8) !

Great job!!!!

Well?

Deep subject...the well.
Yeah, yeah...actually, we have been playing chess on it for quite a while...guess I forgot to post a pic...oops!
Catalogue image coming online soon....

Cool a pic. Lets see it! :D

Ok, ok..so I am really, really late ! New pc, new files to upload !
greg

It's aboot bloody time... :thumbsup:

What's next, dude?

this is the Deinonychus I have been working on...lots of spots!
Next major project will probably involve a door... :D

Whoops ! forgot the one I am already working on...a mask that will have some ceph stuff on it...

Very cool, I really like the background part, the brown part.

Very cool.

-Travis

(hope everyone notices the blue throat fan, courtesy of Dr. SOS )

Lovely, all of it, but the chess board is my favorite of the bunch.

So when do you have time to work? Or read TONMO? Or sleep?

Melissa

I am somewhat manic...working for long stretches, then reading for a day or two, then lots of sleep, then back to work...
Drives my wife crazy. :D