Out of This World Project | Advanced Theatrical Stage Props – SUNY Oswego | Fall 2016

Death’s Chess Board

Concept: Death plays a game of chess with each person before they die, or live, if they win the game. He keeps a tally of everyone he beaten. Each person he plays brings a chess set of their own based on their life, thus far. Here death is playing a game against Edgar Allan Poe.

Materials:

Chess Board: 3/4″ Plywood, Stain, Acrylic Paint, Paper, Ink, Battery-operated micro-LED lights, Resin, Red dye, Leather

Death’s Chess Set: Oven-bake Clay, 3D Printed Raven Skull, Acrylic Paint, Bobcat Phalanges, Bat Skulls, Rear Cat Paws, Horse Teeth

Poe’s Chess Set: Doll-house chairs, Miniature Bricks, Oven-bake Clay, Air-dry Clay, Acrylic Paint, Resin, Glass Bottle, Red Water, Sea Shell Fragment, Miscellaneous Small Bones

Chess Board Construction

Grooves

Un-Painted/Painted Grooves

Resin Pour over LEDs

Resin

Checker Paint

LED Battery Packs

Leather Base

Hidden Battery Switches

Tally Marks

Death’s Chess Set Construction

3D Printed Skull

Skull Seam

Painted Skull

Painted Skull Bottom

Skull on Base

Oven-bake Bases

Most of Death’s Chess Set

Poe’s Chess Set Construction

The Lady’s Who Loved Poe

Wood Burned Bone

Pawns on Bases

Original Doll-Chairs

Poe’s Chess Set Pieces

Finished Set