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I thought this was kind of interesting. I “water cure” my Masters in an effort to prevent cure inhibition with the silicone. The dice on the right side of the image have been in the clear container, in the Colorado sun, for around 48 hours. The ones on the left, covered with bubbles, I put in last night after curing and cleaning as usual. It was interesting to see how much gas had come out of the new dice in just a few hours.

First sets I’m happy enough with to post. Dirty pours and mica powders.

These are the first sets I’m happy with enough to show off. I’ve stopped fighting for specific results and just let the resin do what it wants. I am the Maker.

They never seem to come out like I expect, but that’s part of the fun.

Anybody else make their own molds? I was using PVC fittings for a long time (and they worked just fine) but wanted something with integrated “keys” for the lid. Some time in Fusion360 and these are the result. The round ones are just mirror imaged, so I don’t have to worry about keeping matched sets. I can just increase the scaling for larger size dice. The halves are just held together with binder clips.

I’m lucky to have a lot of mica powders, dye pastes, and glitters, so I went nuts and cast a sample of each into these small Temu skull molds. I have two more trays like this one, filled with samples. I printed the trays on my FDM printer. Makes picking color combinations for things like dirty pours easier. Overkill? Probably. Fun to look at and play around with? Definitely.

After countless failed prints, chipped and rounded corners and HOURS of sanding, sanding, polishing, and buffing- I present my first full set of “perfect” Masters. I can’t even recall the number of dimensionally-messed-up d6 cubes it took to get my numeral and diamond pip set perfected. And I’ve always wanted me some chonky d20’s, and now I can cast as many as I want! I’ll be adding padding to the box to keep my babies safe.