Dragonsworn

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Making snowglobe dice is very fun and they are very beautiful, but I have always been bothered by the unbalanced aesthetic of round beads in square cases (especially with my rectangular d4).

An additional challenge is that the beads I use for cores have teeeeeny tiny openings because they’re designed for jewelry, so I could only use very fine glitters and not anything else cool.

So, how to solve this problem? Obviously I needed to find something that fits better than round glass beads, and I also needed to have a larger opening to fit a broader variety of filler. Alas, for months of searching I couldn’t find anything that existed that checked all my boxes. Things that worked for the d20 didn’t work for the d4, and not being able to make a full set was just not on.

The solution: Blender, endless tedium of teeny tiny measurements, and loading up clear resin in the printer.

I took my dice models, unextruded all the numbers, deleted the top face, and then solidified it with a 1mm wall, making a hollow die exactly as much smaller than my regular dice as the depth of the number wells so they’d center automatically. I also modeled that deleted face on its own as a cap with beveled edges so I could seal everything up nice and tight with UV resin in a syringe.

I can’t polish the insides to make the inserts crystal clear, but polishing the outsides to high gloss kept the prints transparent enough to see perfectly inside, and the slight matte ended up making my finished product even more amazing:

GELATINOUS CUBES

AN ENTIRE SET OF MOVING SKULL AND BONES GELATINOUS CUBES

EASILY the most amazing things I have ever made. I love them so much.

Today’s dice: stunning foiled blanks in clear resin to create this amazing framed lacquerware.

I LOVE THEM.

Today’s dice: Aegean-blue blanks each hand-painted with a classical 3-circuit labyrinth in Minoan clay red, set in a very slightly lighter blue frame for oceany depth.

Getting the acrylic to stick to the shiny, shiny inserts to make these mazes was A TIME, lol. I had to dot on the lines and then fill everything in once they dried.

Today’s dice: MAD GENIUSRY

I scavenged the electronics from a bounce-and-it-lights ball and set it in my 30mm mold with SO MUCH GLITTER that if the battery dies sooner than the 5000 hours it’s rated for it’s still pretty.

Today’s dice: pastel pink and white floral lace-painted black blanks in sparkly clear frames, because I guess I am super into Grandma Florals right now.

When I made these I was 90% sure that adding the holo glitter to the frames was going to be Too Much, but my need to be AS EXTRA AS POSSIBLE won out and they are STUNNING. I intend to paint these pastel pink, because that will bring out the hearts of the flowers without being overpowering like hot pink would.

Today’s dice: I broke out the turntable to show off the amazing glory that is iridescent tinsel film.

The natural progression of my flirtation with Grandma Florals is Arsenic and Old Lace, minimalistic monochrome flowers on sparkly blanks and inked in translucent green.

Today’s dice: the Old Dragon, tattered rainbow-gradient holographic scaled blanks in glittery frames.

Basically the pinnacle of my dicemaking here, y’all. HOW WILL I EVER TOP PRIDE DRAGON, BECAUSE I CANNOT.

Making snowglobe dice is very fun and they are very beautiful, but I have always been bothered by the unbalanced aesthetic of round beads in square cases (especially with my rectangular d4).

An additional challenge is that the beads I use for cores have teeeeeny tiny openings because they’re designed for jewelry, so I could only use very fine glitters and not anything else cool.

So, how to solve this problem? Obviously I needed to find something that fits better than round glass beads, and I also needed to have a larger opening to fit a broader variety of filler. Alas, for months of searching I couldn’t find anything that existed that checked all my boxes. Things that worked for the d20 didn’t work for the d4, and not being able to make a full set was just not on.

The solution: Blender, endless tedium of teeny tiny measurements, and loading up clear resin in the printer.

I took my dice models, unextruded all the numbers, deleted the top face, and then solidified it with a 1mm wall, making a hollow die exactly as much smaller than my regular dice as the depth of the number wells so they’d center automatically. I also modeled that deleted face on its own as a cap with beveled edges so I could seal everything up nice and tight with UV resin in a syringe.

I can’t polish the insides to make the inserts crystal clear, but polishing the outsides to high gloss kept the prints transparent enough to see perfectly inside, and the slight matte ended up making my finished product even more amazing:

GELATINOUS CUBES

AN ENTIRE SET OF MOVING SKULL AND BONES GELATINOUS CUBES

EASILY the most amazing things I have ever made. I love them so much.

Gelatinous cuuuuuuuuuubes

Things that are amazing:

• little resin bunnies

• giant compound flowers that can be dyed and then crumbled into tiny component petals

• mixing the perfect translucent ink

• TWEE FAIRY RIDICULOUSNESS

A set of Chaotic Neutral snowglobes, because I am Super Extra.

No, seriously, THE MOST EXTRA.

The EXTRA-EST.

1) I like to test cast into new molds first so if something is wrong I won’t lose anything important

2) putting tiny things in dice is my FAVORITE, the more ridiculous the better

ERGO

3) I heard you like dice so I got you some dice so you can dice while you dice

Guess who’s back on her twee fairy bullshit? :D

10mm hand-painted resin bunnies and dried flowers in translucent pale green.

Today’s dice: Lady Kima of Vord, blue and gold ink swirls on a sparkly opaque silver base. That stripe on the 20 is just 😘👌

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And because I’m a terrible human being, I also cast these Kima marbles in the tiny molds:

#dice #critical role #lady kima of vord

I decided to turn dice not fit for rolling into pendants rather than let them languish sad and unloved in a drawer and the results are INCREDIBLE.

Do u make all the dice u post? If so, do u ever sell them and can I have a link to the shop if u do?

Hello! Yes indeed I make everything myself, from the design of the masters through the acrylic used for inking. :D

My main storefront can be found at http://www.dragonsworn.net and my dice commission waitlist is at http://forms.gle/NFbot8VrPcZoYuMd9.

Would you like a set of custom resin dice for whatever flavors of TTRPG float your fancy? I would love to make them for you, and since I han

#dice commissions

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