Jumanji Board Game

I built my own Jumanji board game, in real size, with a piece of wood, some 3D printed parts and paint.

Supplies

• Large pieze of wood, I used a single board of plywood 120x60x1cm, but I might recommend some solid wood instead
• Dark brown varnish , I got mine on Ikea
• Some acrylic paint
• Stone effect acrylic paint I used to paint the figures
• Wood glue
• Photo paper A4-size
• About 8 hinges

Step 1: Draw, Cut and Glue

Draw and cut the board. my design is based on a PDF I found on thingiverse made by Audrey2 .

To summarize:

• 2 pieces of 413x155
• 1 pieces of 413x310
• 4 pieces of 135x30
• 6 pieces of 413x30
• 2 pieces of 290x30

So measure everything, consider the depth of the piece of wood (mine was 1cm) and then draw the different parts on the board. I separated each piece an extra 0.5cm because that's the size of the blade I used to cut the wood on my miter saw.

I forgot to cut the parts of the internal storage, so I did that afterwards manually.

Once everything is cut, you can use wood glue to glue all parts together.

Once it is dry, you can scren the hinges to give it its final shape

Step 2: 2d Prints

I edited, and printed on a A4 photo paper the different internal details of the game.

Ideally, these parts should be carved in the wood and painted, but I'm not that good for that.

The middle part doesn't fit on a single sheet of paper, so I printed 2 parts separately, and also the center part to hide the transition between 2 sheets.

Place everything in the game, but don't glue it yet. First we need to paint.

Step 3: 3d Prints

I 3d printed the top part of Jumanji, instead of carving the model in wood. I printed 4 separate parts, I edited the 3d model I found just to print the top part without the box.

Before fixing the 3d part into the box, make sure you prime it, so you can paint it later.

Also 3d print the figures.

Step 4: Paint the Board Game

Now it is time to paint everything, start with the 3d printed top part, I painted it with acrylic paint. Don't worry about the colors being too bright, because we will apply the varnish also on the 3d printed part, and that will darken the colors.

Once 3d printed part is don, varnish everything, including the interior (but you can skip the part that is going to cover with our 2d prints).

Step 5: Paint the Figures

Prime and paint the figures, I used some acrylic stone effect paints for 2 of the figures so it look simliar to the original pieces.

Now you are done!

Step 6: Future Steps

I'd like to look for some nice rules and print some cards so we can play this game for real. And maybe in the future, add some electronics so we can make the game interactive without using cards or anything. Suggestions welcome.

But otherwise, the final result is good enough for displaying the board game in a shelf.

Just make sure you don't start playing unless you inted to finish.