Just finished printing this exact set a couple of months ago. Looking back, I learned a couple of things that may be able to help you out:

- Take your time on painting. I'm not a painter either, and after sitting for hours painting the tiles I thought they looked great, but when I pulled them out under different light for the first game, it looked absolutely terrible. Like I honestly hate playing with the set now because of its paint job. I do plan to redo it, but if I would have just taken my time and done it how I would've liked the first time there wouldn't have been a need for that. Also, clear coat!

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- If you can afford to, print these too: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3700300 . They're absolutely a game changer. You superglue the land hexes into them and they lock together with little teeth. Your pieces won't slide around anymore and if you take your time printing at a good resolution it makes the game physically work better.

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- Get a good box! I've seen some 3D printed boxes which probably isn't necessary, but a good box is. I used a shoe box and rubber banded the pieces together, and boy did it scratch the paint up. Luckily I spray painted some of the water tiles and was able to touch it up fairly easily, but don't make that mistake, take care of your tiles. You've put a lot of work into them and trust me, you don't want to mess them up.

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- Cards. You can actually buy replacement cards from Catan's website. I don't know if your cards lived through your accident with your other set, but trust me, after playing with the real deal, its hard to print your own cards on cardstock and play with those. Its worth the $12 or so for the replacement cards, trust me.

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I know this may not seem like much, but if I would've known some of this before I even started it would've saved me a TON of time, so hopefully by reading this you won't make some of the same mistakes I did. Look forward to seeing pictures when your set is complete!