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artificer-dice · 8 months

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Master making progress is going well! The second one (the green minecraft font) actually turned out well enough I would be able to use it as a master if I had spent a bit more time carefully cleaning it up! Which is progress! I'm still managing to get dimensional accuracy up to like 3/10 of a millimeter which is always nice!

Also the design I currently have going for test #3 under the cut, as well as a small explanation as to what I'm doing to make these.

This might not make sense if you've seen how dice and dice molds are normally made, but these are the actual masters being used to.. well, make master dice. I wanted to try to make a design that challenged the limits of the printer and I would say that this level of detail is pretty much the limit!

This was 1pt lines used to scale, which is really tiny.

Also the faces are painted for two reasons: to check how the faces turned out and, more importantly, to help reduce the silicone that seeps into the pieces. I wasn't the neatest with the application which would be why some look like they have imperfections when they really don't. That's just paint.

Each of these faces result in a small individual mold that I can insert into a larger base mold, which means I can print every face flat for the best detail I can get and so I don't have to use a ton of silicone to make a mold that is usually used once. I've been mixing up 10ml and having extra for these as opposed to the usual 40-50ml of silicone it takes to make a normal mold.

This does mean that as early as next week, I can start the process for a different die, which I'm planning on going for a 30mm d20, or the "chonk" size since they should be easier to do than a 20mm one (the standard size), and it won't take as much material to work out the details like a 50mm oversized one would.

#i have the power of the cut on mobile now #dice #polyhedral dice #artificer dice #handmade dice #mj reinvents the wheel #these are turning out fairly consistent #which is great #i also just need to practice doing the actual process too to make them even more consistent #just hoping everything I've learned so far actually translates well to other shapes

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