Generated from the same geometry the printer is handed — the plate seen from directly above. It cannot show the relief, which is the part you have to hold.
Locarno
Forty comuni above Lake Maggiore
Forty pieces covering the lake shore and the valleys above it, at a scale where individual villages are their own pieces. The Verzasca and Onsernone valleys are the star turns — narrow, steep, and unmistakable in relief. Assembling this is genuinely difficult, in the way a good puzzle should be, because most of the pieces are wedge-shaped valley slices that look alike until you read the terrain on them.
What a child works out
- Mountain villages sit exactly where the ground allows and nowhere else.
- The terrain on a piece is a better clue than its outline.
- A commune can be a single valley with fifty people in it.
The geometry for this plate is finished and verified, but it is not part of the regular print run yet. Ask and it can be cut.
The plate
- Pieces
- 40 pieces
- Plate
- 250 × 176 mm
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 233 m
- Vertical exaggeration
- × 0.32
- Thickness
- 8.8 mm
- Smallest piece
- 8 mm²
- Fit
- 0.35 mm clearance
- Material
- PLA, printed in Switzerland
B5 — the size of a school exercise book.
How much ground one millimetre of plate covers.
Height is compressed here — the terrain is dramatic enough at this scale that true height would not fit the plate.
Nothing is cut smaller than a child can pick up.
Printed in place, so every piece seats first time without sanding.
Every named piece
- Ascona
- Borgnone
- Brione sopra Minusio
- Brione Verzasca
- Brissago
- Caviano
- Cavigliano
- Contone
- Corippo
- Cugnasco Gerra
- Frasco
- Gerra
- Gordola
- Gresso
- Indemini
- Intragna
- Isorno
- Lago Maggiore Langensee
- Lavertezzo
- Locarno
- Losone
- Magadino
- Mergoscia
- Minusio
- Mosogno
- Muralto
- Onsernone
- Orselina
- Palagnedra
- Piazzogna
- Ronco sopra Ascona
- San Nazzaro
- SantAbbondio
- Sonogno
- Tegna
- Tenero Contra
- Vergeletto
- Vira Gambarogno
- Vogorno
- Water body
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The most pieces of any plate in the collection, at a scale where you can find the road you live on.
- Pieces
- 43 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 522 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 8 and up
- Price
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Bellinzona, Locarno, Lugano, Mendrisio, Blenio, Leventina, Riviera, Vallemaggia — eight pieces, all mountain.
- Pieces
- 8 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 387 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 6 and up
- Price
- CHF 120.00
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Twelve districts around the lake
The whole canton at 305 metres to the millimetre, with the lake, the Glatt valley and the Albis ridge.
- Pieces
- 12 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 305 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 6 and up
- Price
- CHF 120.00