Design was made in Sketchup. after all, all you need is Three hexagons as a base.
I has a modular design first, building 1/3 of hexagons and assembling them 4 by 4.
But the deadline was here. so I went a more classical path.
Quick mockup with components to adjust the proportions (height compared to the hat shape)
Then cut the shape in two, flatten it, and add tabs.
I know, some faces are painted, some reversed, I couldn’t care less. It’s going out as a dxf anyways.
Assembling the tiles was quite simple, painting them too (easiest part), mounting them on the canvas was not. they turned out super flat, and since paper is flexible, it was way too easy to mess up their geometry while gluing. Thankfully, black on black, you don’t really see the places where I messed up.
So yeah, same process as the other ones, with with a theme and a short deadline. happy of how it turned out, I won’t do any variation anytime soon though.
Right now I rolled back to normal hexagons. sort of.