My Tank is Fight

The complete set. We don’t actually own a chess board so they’re on a checkers board.

Tanks are awesome. I like tanks.

So Dustin designed chess set of WWII tanks. Axis vs. Allies tank chess set! Awesome! In the words of the three-year-old boy who saw these at Rockville Science Day, “FIGHT TRUCKS!”

There are six unique models for each side of the war: Pawn, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King. Each one took about 3 hours to design in TinkerCAD and and about an hour to print at 0.1mm layer height; 10% infill and 10 top layers are recommended to handle the shallow slopes without gaps. In general, no supports are needed. A chess symbol is embossed into the bottom of each piece to identify it; this bridges without supports.

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