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Artificer Dice
I'm MJ and I make dice!
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The first time something works, it's a fluke.
The second time something works, it's a coincidence.
The third time it works, it actually works.
At least, this is the philosophy I use when making prototypes for things.
I finally reached the fluke stage of the prototyping process and just started the second test. I have a bit of cleaning up to do on it, but I have not been this confident about any of the other iterations and if I get consistent enough results, I can actually move on to other dice shapes! (As much as I just love making a ton of d6s, I just want to be able to move on to the others too)
#mj reinvents the wheel#it's showing progress now which is great#pictures coming soon#I really do hope the things I've learned on this one will translate over to the other shapes just as well#the nice thing about this as well is if the dice are master quality like I'm aiming for they would be better for molding#they're made of epoxy so they wouldn't inhibit silicone#but also I don't have to make a whole master and mold for a one-off commission#put the effort that would go into the making of the master into the final product instead#which just sounds ideal to me#because even if the master ended up perfect you'd still have to sand and polish the die again afterwards#so why not just cut out the middle steps?#plus it uses significantly less silicone to make one and I'm not stuck with a mold I'll only use once#and I may be able to find a use for the individual face designs if they're not too hyper-specific
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One thing I'm notorious for is having way too much confidence in my abilities and ideas. Is this necessarily a bad thing? Not entirely.
I'm picking up an older idea I was working on back in February because I want to see if I can make it work now that I have access to the 3d printer and it seems to be going well.
I may be getting a bit ahead of myself because despite having no finished proof-of-concept, I've been working on different designs to use with it. Again, not necessarily a bad thing, but if I have to pivot again, I'd now have to redo 42 parts instead of like.. the 6 I actually need to try it out.
And I know I'm being cryptic but it's one of those projects where I've given up on it before so I'd like to see some promising results before going into too much detail.
I should hopefully have a working prototype tomorrow and then a proof of concept the next day.
(Now would be a great time to have the quick-curing plastic I used last time but I had to use it all because it goes bad quickly)
#artificer dice bts#project details#or somewhat the lack thereog#if all goes well and i can keep going in this direction i may be able to do fully customizable dice for commissions by October#which would be right in time for the holidays which will likely help me fill commission slots easier and have a better end result as well#I'll also have to do some tests to see just how detailed i can be with this so that'll be interesting too
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Some experiments with the color shift powder I got a while back with the old-font mold d20.
It's been super hazy here for the past two days because somehow the wildfire smoke is only just now reaching us. It's super weird.
As far as dice-making, I have everything set up again which is cool. I just dropped off a commission package at the post office, and I managed to forget to get any final photos or videos of it.. oops!
I made a second one of these old-font d20s but it still needs polished since I haven't actually gotten around to making a mold of the polished version yet, so they come out matte. I can apparently just polish them right out of the mold like that and it works okay, which is nice to know.
There's a decent amount of stuff I want to try to get done for the shop just in general but I'm just going to take it a lot easier than I have in the past so I don't stress myself out into not doing it at all.
#dice#dnd dice#dungeons and dragons dice#handmade dice#polyhedral dice#d20#dice pics#update under the cut
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