Sticker set

I stumbled across this large sticker sheet of a xiangqi board and pieces:

Quite unusual, and of course it inspired me to use this to create a physical xiangqi board and pieces. Came across a cheap travel set for go, and the board looked exactly the right size for the dimensions of the 'sticker board'.

Works a treat! The 'sticker board' also has some holographic effects 'built in', which really shows when the light hits it from a certain angle.

As to the xiangqi pieces, the go pieces that came with the go board were too small for the 'sticker pieces', so I decided to use red and yellow glass pebbles.

Stickers for the pieces were stuck to the flat (rather than the curved) sides of the glass pebbles. And this is what the completed set looks like:

Looks pretty good as far as I'm concerned!

Because the pieces 'lie' on their curved side, they wobble slightly when added to the board, which gives the whole an interesting little extra.

And I also found a nice little bag to keep the pieces in!