Tuesday, March 24, 2026

'Scroll' board for a very large xiangqi set

Saw this very large xiangqi set listed on Temu, and, judging from the details in the listing, it would be the set with the largest pieces in the collection.


Pieces really are big!


The set comes with a large (obviously!) plastic sheet for a board, and I decided to do a bit more with that, but, for a while, wasn't sure what exactly.

Until I hit upon the idea of incorporating the sheet into a scroll of sorts. Would that work?

So got myself a pair of basic broom handles and painted the two ends of each with pine wood stain. Also got a roll of adhesive 'wood effect' vinyl.


I wasn't planning to use the vinyl as 'adhesive', so didn't remove the backing. Rather, I simply attached it at both ends to the 'scroll handles'.


Final stage of creating the 'scroll board' is then to attach the plastic sheet to the vinyl 'scroll', using pretty much invisible magic tape. 


And this is what it looks like when the very large pieces are placed on the 'scroll' board!





I feel it worked out pretty well!

Adding a silk ribbon to secure the rolled-up 'scroll' board adds a nice finishing touch.

Given that the pieces of this set are definitely the largest in the collection (so far?), I thought it would be nice to line up the black/green generals from a few sets to show the current size range. From left to right, the dollhouse set, the pocket set, the beechwood set, my first xiangqi set, the ebony set, the large jade 'garden' set, and the current very large set: 

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