r/DiceMaking

Big day for me. I'm sure some of you won't enjoy hearing this. The competition has been stiff, and I doff my cap to everyone, but the hard truth is, you've all lost. I don't say that to brag, or rub your face in my victory. It's just a simple statement of fact. As of this evening, I've finally done it, and I'm the first one to do it, and there will only ever be one first, and that will be me.

I've made literally every mistake a person can make when casting resin dice. That's right. You've heard it here first.

I started small, as most of us do. I stabbed an expensive master with an Xacto knife while cutting keys into a mold. I added too much alcohol ink and created rubbery abominations that never cured properly. I made armies of malformed little soldiers that almost looked like dice. But I hungered for something bigger, better. I needed to fail in more creative ways.

So I accidentally forgot mold release and created a giant silicone cylinder with all my new masters trapped inside. I over sanded. I dropped a can of mold release on the floor, snapped the nozzle off, and watched it skitter around the floor of my workspace. It wasn't enough. It was never enough.

I created bad mold housings that leaked silicone all over the interior of my pressure pot. I spilled resin on literally everything I own. I doused my Texas Chainsaw Massacre shirt with red alcohol ink which...actually that one was kind of cool. I don't regret that one. I ordered the wrong silicone. I tried really, really bad molds from amazon. IT. WAS. NEVER. ENOUGH.

So tonight, I went big. I was dirty pouring, as one does on a Monday night. Doin' it dir-tay. And as I finished my pour, I grabbed my lighter, touched the flame to the mold to eliminate any hidden bubbles, and I just straight up set my resin on fire. That's right! All that alcohol ink was right up there at the top and it burst straight into flames. I had to pull off my respirator to blow out the flames like the world's shittiest birthday cake, as I fervently wished for my house to not burn down. Lucky for me, it didn't. But I think it's safe to say I've written my name on the walls of eternity.

So again, sorry everyone. But I did it and I did it with style. I made every mistake.

TL;DR - I am the guy who made every mistake a person can make while casting resin dice. AMA.

So im finally thinking I might start printing my own masters, and some minis for my campaign.

I've been looking at a Phrozen 8k S mini with a Phrozen washing+curing station. Im not going to start printing masters for other makers, atleast yet so I don't think I'll need a bigger build plate.

But regarding the masters:

What printer and resin would you recommend?

Got any tips that will save me some headache, like supports, which slicer to use etc?

How do you guys scale your blanks to perfect size?

What's the things (directed at you who already print masters) you would do differently if you got the chance of buying a new rig?

I am very grateful for the responses <3

Hello everyone,

I'm pretty sure this is allowed based off the rules.

But I was pointed here to see if there was anyone who could make sets of custom dice. I'm not sure if what I want is possible, but what I have in mind would be like my dream dice so yeah, that'd be pretty cool. But I want to be able to customize more than what most of the big dice companies allow you to customize.

If interested/possible, just to save some time, what I'm looking for are the following:

1. I play a TTRPG called Mork Borg, and the main style/colors are yellow, pink and black. So I would like some liquid filled dice with some combination of those 3 colors.

2. I swear at some point I saw some dice like this somewhere. But they were essentially liquid core dice with little skulls included in the liquid core. Colors I'm not sure of on these yet.

If possible I would probably get like 2 full sets of each of those.

Thanks everyone.