r/DiceMaking

I think I finally nailed exactly how I want my dice to look overall.

I shared a picture of the tube confetti yesterday, along with my story about the caps popping up. Crisis averted.

Here are a couple of sets of blank inserts that came out of the pressure pot today. There are some voids, but nothing that a shell mold won't fill.

The picture shows two sets of eleven dice. That took one of the packets. That's about $0.25 of filler materials per set, and there was a lot left over.

Tried this technique for the first time yesterday in my RnD set (see second slide) and absolutely fell in love with it. SO THANKFUL that I managed to recreate the effect ahah I was so scared it was just a lucky mistake! 💚

What color should I ink the numbers? I'm considering the same purple as the RnD die (lavender) but this green is a lot more yellow-toned than the blue-toned green yesterday.

I keep getting these ledges on the top face of the dice. Am I over filling? Is this a raised face? I feel like I’m not over filling and I’m scared to not fill enough. But it would be nice to know if this is an over filling sign.

I went up to the white zona on the masters and polished them with polishing compound. These are really see through but also def have surface imperfections looks almost like flashing from the release agent maybe where should I start to polish these up from the green? Would that make them mattee again?

The circuitboard set is sadly missing the d12 and d% which bubbled. But the rest of them I am so happy with! Haven’t decided yet what colors to ink them.

It's officially a technique, y'all!!! Smoke petri is now a thing!! I'm gonna try testing this with regular mica next to see if I get the same results, but in the meantime...

Here's the process:

1. Select your colors, base and smoke color

*Note that I've only done this with neon pigments so far and will be writing the instructions as such.

2. For your smoke, get a scoop of white and two generous scoops of your pigment

*white base makes the color pop and will help add weight

*I also use spice spoons when measuring out my powder

3. Soak the powder in just enough IPA (isopropyl alcohol) to coat it and let it sit as you mix your resin

4. Once resin is, set to the side. Pour out excess IPA from your soaked pigment and stir thoroughly. You’ll want a paste consistency.

5. Add your resin and stir thoroughly

*I have tiny mixing cups and fill them about halfway

6. Fill a pipette with the color and set to the side

7. Mix your base color with the rest of your resin

8. Fill your mold halfway with the base

9. Take the pipette and slowly inject the color, starting from the bottom and working your way up and out for each die in a swirl

10. Pour the rest of your base until full, trapping as much of the smoke as possible

*A thicker stream pour works best here

11. Cap your mold, evely squeeze out excess, and place in your pressure pot

12. Check your results after 24-72 hours (depending on how long you let your resin cure based on their instructions)

Hope this helps for anyone who wants to give it a try! Happy creating, and don't forget to keep trying even if you don't achieve it right away! 🥰❤️

I saw these and thought they looked good for use in dice inserts. Well... they are little tubes.

Getting the air out seemed fine. I just mixed them into the resin before pouring. The trouble came when putting on caps.

When the caps are smooshed on, if even just one of these is out of the mold and under the cap, it springs back and slightly lifts the cap. I had to do a quick cleaning of the caps and mold tops, and it took awhile.

I will share results once I have them. 🤞

I’m having a rough time trying to get this set perfectly sanded to get to the polishing stage.

I’d just like to know what you guys would do to tackle this problem

So these were super raised edges and I used a 500-600P to smooth it out and I’m afraid of over sanding them

Do these lines throw off the balance of the die? Should I throw them to the abyss (my reject dice box that people are free to grab from) and start with new sets that are easier to sand?

I’ve been wanting to make my own dice sets and have my own resin projects however I dont have any access where to buy a Pressure Potand I think it would be pretty expensive if I make one.

Do you think this would be enough for me to make clear dice?

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Did... did I just pull it off? Was this recreation ACTUALLY successful?! Must try again with new color to be certain!! 😍🥳🥰

I have cleanup and inking to do, but they are looking pretty good.

Blue one has 4 x 16mm balls encasing equipment components. I like that these are spaced out so that the light can come through them.

The silver one is just a couple of crinkled Mylar strips that I cut thinner. These are from bubble mailers of some sort. Excited to see how this one looks inked.

I am really excited about hyperfocusing on perfecting these 🤣

-Rascal Resin

Some of the sets I made recently! Hope you like them :)

I wish I could try more intricate patterns inside like a smoke effect but my alcohol ink is simply not doing it and I am always way too impatient to do pours with thick resin 🥲

Any recommendations on doing a 'smoke' like effect (colors + clear resin + white 'smoke')?

Hi all, I’m having some trouble with printing my masters. As you can see from the images, they all have weird warping going on. I’m new to both dice making and 3D printing so I was wondering if anyone has any advice?

Printer: Mars 5 Ultra
Resin: Elegoo ABS-Like 3.0 pro
Bottom layers: 5
Exposure: 32
Transition layers: 7
Layer height: 0.01
Exposure: 0.12

Thanks!