For New Years we had a couple of friends over for a small celebration. Just a causal dinner party, a tiny and amount of fireworks and some champagne. To pass the time waiting for midnight we broke out a board game.
My friend had a board game based on the TV show TaskMaster (or “Stor Mester” as the Danish edition is called). Fundamentally, the game is simple: there is a TaskMaster, the other players draft tasks and the TaskMaster ranks players based on how well they do the tasks.

My friend served as TaskMaster, and through ingenuity (if I may say so myself) and plausibly a bit of luck: I somehow won! In the TV show there is a trophy, which is a golden sculpture of the TaskMasters head. In the board game there is also a trophy, however it’s just a tiny cardboard cutout of the TV show trophy. The rules of the board game states that the winner should keep the trophy until next time the game is played. However, as they live a few hours away, and they might be playing the board game other people next time, this seemed a bit impractical. So they brought the game, including the paper trophy, home.

Naturally, I felt that I was owed a worthy trophy! So I found a picture of my friend, and paid an artist on fiverr.com to create a 3D rendering of his head. With a bit of scaling and a few tweaks I was able to slice the head and print it on my 3D printer.
I painted the printed head with primer and gold spray paint. Then I designed my own stand with appropriate inscription in Tinkercad, printed and glued the two parts together. Finally, a trophy with winning!

Given all the work I had for through getting the design for this trophy ready, I ended up printing 7 trophies all together. I gave myself one, which I deem to have won fair and square! The rest I gifted to my friend, such that he can give out a decent trophy next time he serves as TaskMaster. After all, who wouldn’t want to have a golden bust of my friend’s head!