Horseless Carriage game replacement spec markers

These are replacement spec markers for the Splotter Spellen board game Horseless Carriage. The original game comes with a large selection of these, but the first printing had a mistake and there are two types of spec markers that were printed with incorrect colors. While Splotter is planning to have replacements printed, that is probably many months away and while they have provided a printable pdf to make stickers to correct the misprinted tokens, I don't currently have a color printer, but I do have a 3D printer, so I made these as an alternative.

If you just need replacements for the misprints, you will want:

10 Yellow arrows with a horizontal pattern

10 Blue arrows with a diagonal pattern

I created the other two patterns just because I wanted to play around with OpenSCAD a little more. I used the fillets2d and fillets3d libraries to round some of the corners. On my test print, the diamond and square patterns were pretty rough, but I haven't had a need to actually print more of them after I made my last tweaks.

I took some liberties with the angles of some of the lines to make them print a little more nicely, particularly on the diagonal one.

After I started printing them I realized I could have also made them double sided but I am not sure it is worth the extra effort.

Ithink the dimensions are correct, but I don't have the actual game in hand as a reference. I may upload the OpenSCAD files if I finish parameterizing them, but right now the arrow is kind of a kludge with hard coded values.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Creality

Printer:

Ender-3 v2

Resolution:

.2 or finer

Infill:

any

Filament: any any any

Notes:

I designed this so that when printed at 0.2mm layer height, I could change the filament after layers 1 and 3 so that the base could be the same color as the top, but the arrow would be the second color, based on which spec marker I was replacing.

Results might be a little bit better with a finer nozzle. The detail of the hatching gets a little muddy, but it's still visible.

I printed with the lines set to [90] in Cura so they would print left to right for the color layer which mimics the design of the original markers.

Category: Games