For an inside joke (not for you to know) I set out to make a football field with Tootsie Pop players.
For the end zones and field markings, I designed some stamp-like things and 3D printed them.
The field is just a scrap of 1/2" Baltic Birch plywood. It was 24" which made calculations for yardage lines simple. (100 yards + 2x 10 yard end zones = 120 yards.) That worked out to be 2" per 10 yards.
I’m very new to football, so I labored excessively to find an offense and attempted defense setup that would be accepted (or at least overlooked) by knowledgeable friends.
My team name was n00b; his was Priest Mahomes.
So I took those 3D printed stamps and stamped them into the end zones using acrylic paint via foam from my scrap foam bucket.
That went way better than I expected. Lines are super rough but the field color and the stamps turned out nice.
The 3D printer was particularly helpful for the yard markings. I designed the stamp to have two notches to ease alignment with the field lines when stamping.
BTW, the field marking font is Clarendon Bold.
The Dum-Dum refs were a last minute thought.
The green field finish turned out way better than expected. I airbrushed a few coats of TransFast Green dye. Dyes are great about preserving the wood grain. And, the preservation of the wood grain along with the vibrant green finish gave a very nice grass-like texture look.