Apartment Art Aspiration Update

I've been tossing around a few ideas in my brain as to what I'm going to do to really pack a video game punch in my apartment. I thought about making a mosaic table, but I'm frankly a bit afraid of screwing up a piece of furniture. However, I think I've come to a conclusion that could be slightly less permanent and still pretty cool.

One of my favorite games of all time is River City Ransom. And, as a plus, the game is 8-bit, and thus the art format wouldn't be hard to copy. Thus, I want to make a magnet mosaic for my refrigerator. Behold: this is the motif I'm going by.


I found this image on a Google Image search. The image was on an IGN blog, but I think it would be really cool to use this as a tile pattern of some sort. Imagine each one of those blocks as a tiny magnet. I would connect them with puzzle glue, make the two men separately, and then put them on the bottom of the refrigerator (I'm not going to make all of the surrounding white tiles). Here's what I need to do in order to make this happen.

Step 1: Get a bunch of magnets and some puzzle glue.
Step 2: Count how many black tiles, blue tiles, white tiles, brown tiles, and flesh tiles I'll need.
Step 3: Paint the tiles accordingly.
Step 4: Assemble it.
Step 5: Put it on the refrigerator (with help so it doesn't all fall apart when I try to lift it).

I just need to figure out how big or small the thing will be and where I can get a bunch of magnets like that. I suppose I'll try A.C. Moore or something.

Man. I haven't felt this crafty since preschool.