Backyard Birds Chess Set

I liked IggiDee's original idea, but I also had a few ideas of my own about a couple of the pieces. Having little to no sculpting talent of my own, I am very grateful for the talent and generosity of the designers whose work I have leveraged here.

With a little "cut and paste" help from 3D Builder and MeshMixer, I made the following adjustments to IggiDee's original set:

1. I added a crown to the King Fisher's head, using "Crown Ring Size 10
   by MrPlastic"
2. I converted the Queen from a swan to a pigeon wearing a feather tiara, using "Two Bird Models by pmoews"
3. I created a new pawn piece by remixing the Rook piece and "Parrot Egg
   by noahjbright15 ", sitting the rook on the egg in a miniaturized version of "Bird nest for Wingspan (holds eggs) by njeff "
4. I remixed the Bishop Bird Bishop into a Cardinal Bishop, using "Cardinal on a branch (smoothed remake) by notazero"
5. I added a small crest to the head of the falcon knight piece, to echo the helmet worn by the squirrel knight piece in the "Woodland Squirrel Chess Set" that I remixed and printed to play against these birds.
6. I scaled the relative heights of these pieces to my personal taste, by stretching their bases.
7. I added a hollow space into the base of each piece, into which I add BB's and Slingshot ammo for weight. The BASE pieces are for capping and sealing those holes.

You may also be interested in my Sectioned Magnetic Chessboard +Box, with Chess Notation Labels and 45mm Interlocking Squares, which I designed to store these pieces.