Tidal Crown plays in one colour.

Nothing in this set is painted, and nothing needs a second spool. The dark squares are cut into the board 2 mm deep. The black army is the one with flats milled on its base. Print the whole thing in whatever you have loaded and you can still read the board across a table, and tell whose piece you are holding without looking.

Printed parts: 35
Overall: 9.3 × 7.7 × 1.6 in
Weight: 6.2 oz
Material: PETG

The whole set on a pale bench: a square platter with two curling tails, both armies on their squares, and two spare queens standing off the board to the left.

Setting up

Scroll to lay the board out.

The board is one printed piece: a 152 mm platter with two tails swept off opposite corners.

Half the squares are cut, not coloured. A 1.5 mm groove, 2 mm deep, around a 14 mm square.

All 32 men come down on an 18 mm pitch, each base with 2 mm of daylight all round.

Round rim, white. Four flats, black. Your thumb finds it before your eye does.

Each tail turns 143° and stands up to 10 mm clear of the plate. That gap is the handhold.

35 printed parts, with a spare queen already waiting on each side of the board.

Told apart by touch

Both armies are turned from the same six profiles, to the same heights, on the same 14 mm foot. One thing separates them, and it is not colour: white keeps the rim a true circle, black takes four flats down to 11.6 mm across. The corners are still there at 13.92 mm, so a black piece sits in its square exactly like its opposite number and slides the same way.

You can feel which side you are holding in the dark, and see it from across the table as a square shadow against a round one. It also leaves the black army 1.3 g lighter, which is the only other difference between them.

White

A turned circle, 14 mm across at every angle.

Black

Four flats, 11.6 mm across them and 13.92 mm across the corners.

Two spare queens standing on the bench beside the board, the nearer one on a round base, the one behind it on a base with flat sides. — The two spare queens, off the board. The near rim is a circle; the one behind it has been cut flat on four sides. Same piece otherwise.

Six profiles, one foot

Every man stands on the same base, so the set is read by height and by what happens at the top: the rook's battlements, the bishop's slit, the knight's wedge, the queen's crown, the king's cross. The outlines below are not drawn. Each one is traced from the mesh that goes to the slicer, at a hundredth of a millimetre.

Pawn12 mm

Rook18 mm

Knight21 mm

Bishop23 mm

Queen26 mm

King28 mm

Drawn to one scale and standing on one line. The foot under each is the same 14 mm disc, which is what lets any of them stand on any square.

A board with two tails

The platter is 152 mm square and 12 mm thick, and the field takes 144 mm of it. Two tails sweep off opposite corners, 12 mm wide and the full thickness of the board, each turning 143° before it lets go and standing up to 10 mm clear of the plate edge. They are why the set measures 196 mm across instead of 152, and they are what you pick it up by.

The empty board seen from above and to one side, with the two tails curling out of opposite corners and the marked squares reading as shallow tiles. — The board before anything stands on it. Both tails run clear of the plate for most of their length.

Close raking view along the board surface: each marked square is outlined by a narrow groove with a bright edge. — Raking light across the field. The mark is a groove, so it reads as a line of shadow whatever colour the plastic is.

64squares, 32 of them ringed by the engraved groove
18 mmpitch, centre to centre, both ways
2 mmof daylight on every side of a 14 mm base
7.7 inacross the board, tail tip to tail tip

What comes off the bed

The set is 35 parts: the board, 32 men and 2 spare queens, so a pawn that gets to the far rank has something to be promoted into. The board is the long job at 10 h 56 m and about 75% of the plastic. Everything else is small work.

Sliced for this page with the shop's PETG profile: 0.4 mm nozzle, 0.2 mm layers, 15% infill, 2 perimeters, no supports. The figures in the table are that slicer over these meshes, not an estimate.

Both armies set up and seen from the near edge of the board, the back rank standing above the pawns. — Two armies, one spool. The layer lines are the only finish on them.

Piece	Height	Weight	Print
Pawn	12 mm	1.09 g	10 min
Rook	18 mm	1.71 g	16 min
Knight	21 mm	1.27 g	13 min
Bishop	23 mm	1.62 g	15 min
Queen	26 mm	2.01 g	19 min
King	28 mm	1.81 g	17 min

What ships

One spool in, a full set out: a board you can read by eye and an army you can read by thumb, both of them the same colour as each other and whatever you had loaded.

Printed parts: 35
Men in play: 32, 16 a side
Spare queens: 2
Board: 7.7 in square
Squares: 64
King height: 28 mm
Overall: 9.3 × 7.7 × 1.6 in
Weight: 6.2 oz
Print time: 17.5 h
Material: PETG, 0.2 mm layers
Nozzle: 0.4 mm