I’ve started using UV resin to ink the numbers instead of acrylic paint. It makes the numbers last longer but takes longer to finish because I have to cure a few numbers at a time. It takes about 6 or 7 trips to the curing light before all the numbers are inked.
Interesting. Do you fill the numbers completely (allowing for perfectly flat facets), or just put in a thin coat?
I do my best to fill them in completely but they remain slightly concave. Sometimes they end up flush and I’m not sure why. I’m still experimenting with it but it does require that the whole die go through sanding and polishing to remove the excess so it’s way more labor intensive. I’m still brainstorming ways to make it easier and more consistent.
I tend to paint my numbers using airbrush paints for miniatures (thinner and heavily pigmented so they coat well). I paint them before the final polishing paper so the polishing removes any overspill.
Regarding the UV resin, I would think viscosity might control the concavity. Doing a warm water bath of the bottle might be able to control things a bit. I know it impacts the end result of my “dragon scale” dice.
I would like to see your dragon scale dice, you should post them.
Good call, it could be that my room was warmer when I did the ones that ended up perfectly even. I do water down my acrylics so the coat better when I use them and a lot of them are model paints, I do the painting before the polish the same too, the UV resin just leaves tougher residue so it has to go on first and get sanded.
Nice, those look really good. If I could make a suggestion though? Round off your corners a bit, especially the d4/d6 will feel uncomfortable to roll 'til they wear off naturally.
That’s a preference thing, I like them sharp enough to cause injury. I’m also not exactly dexterous enough to get an even rounding of the corners and it would drive me crazy to have them uneven. I do appreciate the feedback though.
Aesthetically I agree, though I will say I’d hate to be in the situation where that D4 ever lands on a wet surface because I can just see it locking in with the adhesion and having no point from which to pry it off.
I’ve trained my fingers like the guy in Kung POW.
That’s a bit of a stretch scenario, I don’t know many people who play around wet stuff and it’s easy enough to just tip over because the other points are weak points for adhesion. Just put a finger against one edge and tilt it.
I’ve trained my fingers like the guy in Kung POW.
I am glad you thought of the exact image I was picturing in my mind!
for science I tried it out. I put a few drops on a table at the bar and plopped one of my weaponized D4s on it. It was simple to pick up and only stuck slightly but was easy to lift no matter how long I left it, pressed on it, or spun it around.
Fair enough.
Imagine leaving your die unattended for 2 minutes only to find me crunching on them like this cat:
edit: better source
I would be impressed.i hope to make more tasty looking dice
I would throw those into my collection. This is right up my alley.
Since I have them sitting right here already, here are some of my favourites:
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