If anybody cares, if you buy a set of hollow plastic chess pieces, a good way to make them better (IMO) is to fill them up with plaster of paris. Gives them a better heft than the hollow plastic, and thus more difficult to knock over. Auto body filler is even more dense, if you have access to that.
(Don’t use molten lead. That’s even denser still, but will melt the plastic pieces.) 🙂
In tabletop wargaming we have the same problem with individual plastic pieces. There are people selling special metal discs you can glue to the bottom of the base to weigh them down.
Meanwhile the government mint provides 1p and 2p coins which are just the right size and weight and cost far less, specifically 1p or 2p each. And most everywhere has them, too.
I honestly don’t see why these people can’t buy the package they had opened for them if it’s not supposed to be a gift and they’re not Monk.
If anybody cares, if you buy a set of hollow plastic chess pieces, a good way to make them better (IMO) is to fill them up with plaster of paris. Gives them a better heft than the hollow plastic, and thus more difficult to knock over. Auto body filler is even more dense, if you have access to that.
(Don’t use molten lead. That’s even denser still, but will melt the plastic pieces.) 🙂
In tabletop wargaming we have the same problem with individual plastic pieces. There are people selling special metal discs you can glue to the bottom of the base to weigh them down.
Meanwhile the government mint provides 1p and 2p coins which are just the right size and weight and cost far less, specifically 1p or 2p each. And most everywhere has them, too.