Clacksmith

First post here as an r/dicemaking refugee, glad this place has a similar community!

So I've got a friend who is both a standard nerd and is also deep into Harry Potter. I've had the idea to make them a set of four d20's, each with coloring and patterns appropriate to the Hogwarts Houses, and maybe make a wooden/3d printed stand to display them on.

The biggest problem I'm currently facing is how the heck to get a bronze color/effect for Ravenclaw out of ink and mica powder, but I'm also open to any other generic style ideas.

Thanks!

Made a "Snow Globe" d20 (60mm chonk) for a friend's wedding.

I'm making a second chonk with a more detailed version of the mini as an inclusion.

I managed to embed two 35mm scale figures inside without much issue. While I was letting bubbles shake out from the mold on my vibration table, I sacrificed an old brush to brush extra resin onto the models to prevent bubbles being stuck in the details.

Just got new masters printed from my buddy.

All I have to do now is figure out how to make the mold. That d20 is going to give me fits.

I got a buddy to print about 60-ish tiny (~15mm in length) swords for a Battlemaster Fighter dice set. I'm playing about with paint schemes and also testing density.

Any suggestions on an easy way to get started? I'm not sure all the equipment I need and which is just nice to have, for example.

It's incredibly rare that a set turns out exactly as intended, but it sometimes happens. Like this one - the intention was to make a set that looked like coffee, and that's just what we got!

Fittingly, this set was sold as a gift for a barista!

So far, I've met a bunch of dicemakers and bought some beautiful dice.

Made for a gnome artificer in my Spouse's game (it's online, but games need dice).

Angelina fibers in blank inserts covered in geometric pattern nail art stickers. Light blue shell with bright copper numbers (silver undercoat).

This set uses one of my favourite techniques - hydro-dipping (or marbling).

With this technique, you drip special inks onto the surface of some water to make a pattern, then carefully dip a blank dice down into the water so that the ink folds around it. You then cast the patterned blank in resin to seal it.

Underpainting is first painting numbers in a color that doesn't distract from the color of the translucent dice. This prevents the color used in the numbers from visually "bleeding" from the other facets.

The d12 is underpainted in silver, the d8 isn't.

It also allows this set to have copper numbers with an ice blue die.

The skulls in these dice were 3D printed on an Elegoo Mars 2 Pro printer and hand painted. Then they were cast in blank dice, then recast in proper moulds.

We did a run of this design as a full set last year and it proved popular. This time we're doing a run of D6s (for Warhammer/Yahtzee fans!).

I've been lurking and waiting for a dice making community to pop up :)

Dice making was our "pandemic thing". We just started down that rabbit hole one day and it grew and grew. We ended up making and selling a lot of dice, including this set.

It's a petri pour set - where you drip various inks into resin and gravity pulls down creeping strands into the dice body while it cures.

Life has got in the way of making more sets this last six months, but I'm looking for inspiration to get back into it.

So I made these for a buddy. Very ultramarine ink translucent dice with silver numbers and gold high value.

These things practically glow in sunlight.

I got these for my fiancee for it anniversary last year. Made from lab created opals. So pretty.