Happy Star Wars Day! With everyone posting all of their awesome Settlers of Catan boards, I thought I would get in the board games spirit and make my own Monopoly board. That spiraled into making pretty much everything for a Star Wars themed Monopoly game. The board, the money, the tokens, cards, houses, hotels, and dice. I used Proofgrade cherry ply for the board and tokens. Draftboard for the property cards, and different colored cardstock for the money, chance, and community chest.
Blockquote how long did this take? I assume forever.
Are you asking on the design, or the actual cutting on the ? I’ve probably spent 30 hours on and off over the past month tinkering with the files. I originally thought I would just create the board, but as I added each additional thing, it spiraled out of control. I still plan on replacing the Chance and Community chest cards with printed versions from Moo.com, but will wait for a decent online coupon to appear.
For the actual cutting / engraving:
Each half of the board took just shy of 3 hours. I have printed more than one set. The original was on Maple, and the graphics were inverted. This was also on 1/8" proofgrade, and decided that I wanted to use 1/4" material and go with Cherry. One piece that I printed was ruined after the stepper motor jumped about 3/4" to the right after about 2 hours into the print.
Scoring and cutting the property cards took about 3 hours on the . The money was the most tedious, as I had to do one sheet of 10 bills at a time, but it was worth it to have everything cut to the same size. The tokens I did over a lunch break earlier this week. The houses and hotels I did last night when I got home from work. A lot of work for something that won’t get used very often, but it’s a neat custom game to have in my collection.
What a wonderful tribute to the franchise! Love the game pieces, money, cards, board, just everything! I think it would be a lot more fun to play this one vs the original ( just not into real estate).
One of my favorite things on this project was coming up with the chance and community chest cards. It makes me smile knowing that some of these would never be in an “official” version of Monopoly.
Death Star Workers Union Dues - Pay 100
Sell trooper garrison supply of Wookiee Jerky - Collect 150
Get probed by an Imperial Probe Droid - Move back 2 spaces
Fall into trash compactor - Pay 50
You have turned to the Dark Side of the Force - Pay each player 50