In my game I will use several hundred half-inch square tiles in a grid of 30x30.
So I want to have a grid sort of like the clear, raised, plastic grid on the super-Scrabble board -just enough to keep the tiles in place but loose enough so the users can easily manipulate the pieces.
I would recycle a Super-Scrabble board, but it's only a 20x20 grid, and scrabble pieces are bigger than a half-inch.
So far, I've considered:
- Using a wire mesh (can't find one flat enough or with the right-sized holes)
- Using transparent silicon caulk and drawing the lines with that (this might work, but could look bad)
- Using 1:24 dollhouse tile sheets (grid is too slight, and typically the tile-hole is a bit too small)
- Cutting 1mm dowels and gluing them into place, cutting them to lengths necessary to create the grid (probably what I'll do).
- Using a regular mosaic tile-mounting grid (too deep and tight, and don't come in the right size)
I was wondering if anyone has other ideas besides these.
