Reddit reviews Chess House Premium Giant Chess Set Pieces (25 inch King) Black and White
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ALL WEATHER Polyurethane plastic pieces are tough, durable, resists heat, cold, fading and the elements!Every piece is EASY to move with most having small knob-style tops and ideally sized to suit all ages from young child to adultAdd extra weight with sand or water easily to the removable bases of each piece for added stability in high winds or where more weight is preferredComplete Set of 32 Giant Chess Pieces -- 25 inch large King chess piece. Replacement pieces easily available for purchase.Giant Chess Pieces ONLY -- Plastic snap together giant chess board and 9 ft nylon chess mat are sold separately
Man, pricing might be off, the amount of work for this is staggering too. I'm not a chess player, but I'm guessing six molds to make the pieces.
I've made several 2 piece molds with the final products being hollow. They require a nice plug with a lot of waxing and no negatives. I used to make the original out of foam, layered with glass, sanded smooth, and then sprayed with an automotive primer and sanded. I made my molds at least a 1/4" thick, which for you just having to pull a few pieces, you could get away with skinnier molds. If you've never done molds before, it's a different beast than laying glass or carbon, gel coat isn't very forgiving in some aspects either.
A big problem I see is the sheer size you're going for, a few feet tall means that you are going to be trying to lay resin up inside the mold from the bottom, unless you have serious monkey arms or a chop gun with a roller on an extension I don't see it happening unless you make the mold in four pieces (more work).
I'm all for diy, but even with a year of time it's a big challenge, and that's assuming every mold turns out right and all the parts from the molds turn out right. I saw something similar to these at the mall, maybe pick something up like this and then work on building the chessboard?
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The only other thing I would suggest would be just to make all your plugs out of foam and use as one off pieces without making molds, then glass over them, sand, bondo and paint. The mold making seems like a lot of work to get one or two pieces out of them. I guess you could do a cheapy mold too, basically take the part that you have to replicate the most and make a mold of just one half. Then you could do some pva in the mold and pour foam in it. Cut the foam flush with parting flange and joing the two halves together and then glass and sand and finish.