NEXT STEPS FOR ME:
- Design game pieces for cities, settlements, roads & achievement cards (longest road, etc). I plan to use Walnut for the game pieces & will paint them to differentiate between players.
- Need to cut & stain the water border pieces.
- Add some sort of soft backing to each of the pieces. I’m thinking about using cork with embedded magnets (see step 4).
- I plan to get a big galvanized metal sheet (something like this) that I will hang/mount on the wall. Then, for storage, I can have the glowforge board setup & magnetized to the sheet. This way it’ll be on display in my office when not in use. I’ll probably put some sort of wood veneer on the metal sheet to hide the metal.
- I plan to make a few small boxes with a living hinge to store the game pieces (one for each player). Also will make a box for holding resource cards. These boxes will also have a magnet on the back so they can magnetize/attach to the galvanized sheet.
When we’re ready to play, I can simply pull it down from the wall & lay it on the table. The other benefit is that the magnetized tiles will prevent the board from shifting around during aggressive game play 