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I have been thinking about 3D printing some hex pieces out of PLA, embedding some small magnets in the periphery, and painting them...

Unfortunately my modeling skills are much stronger with geometric primitives like cuboids, cylinders, and spheroids than with mountains, forests, pastures, clay quarries, and wheat fields!



I've found that even 6x2.5mm N38 magnets are more than strong enough to stick pieces thick of cardboard to a whiteboard.

Larger ones could probably hold something even if there's a good few millimetres of wood between the magnet and the metal board.

Dangerously powerful things. I use them to keep tiny screws in place when I disassemble something.

Properly placed they can even stop laptop fans completely.


There are a lot of cc-0 low poly models that would work well for this on itch io and other sites.


I've seen some quite decent low poly Catan models. You can do quite a lot with primitives.




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