A little tiny dice tower that I made, mainly in an effort to be able to roll the dice with less fear of losing them. So, I had this miniature sewing kit from the dollar store (pic of it actually on the harrow bag page), so I pulled out the insides and lined it with still more of that red fabric (hey, they all match!) I used some plastic with a convenient bend in it from some cookies, and folded the plastic into the shape of a dice tower, first having two rollers side-by-side (kinda cool aesthetically), followed by having a side that has room for the miniature dice bag. The outside will soon be painted, one side with our beholder Khorgah, the other with the D&D / Paizo / L5R logo mashup. Interior finished February 2022
Down down down the dice tower ▷ +------- -+ | | | /| | .----' | | / | | | |\ | | '----. | | \ | | | | /| +------ '-+
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And then the painting began! We decided to do a basecoat of a nearly identical light blue to the original plastic, so that there's little difference between the paint and the unpainted lip when you open it up, with the idea of having a starburst of dark blue in the center spreading out to the outsides, on top of which we will paint a beholder, Khorgah from the AD&D page, and on the underside we will put the D&D/Paizo/L5R mashup logo. But, since that's a vertically oriented image and we don't want to put it sideways, the plan is to put four circular logos in each of the corners, the L5R Hiruma mon, the Vampire the Masquerade Gangrel logo, the Sailor Moon moon symbol, and of course a Dungeons & Dragons Sorcerer symbol for Raven. Also we're swapping the Crab clan tattoo for the HQ of HeroQuest, as we already have the Hiruma mon in the corner.
The starburst didn't really work, I'd need a far different viscosity of paint, but we turned it into more of a 'dark blue vortex' feel, and honestly, I prefer that. We started by making that, letting it dry, and then hitting it with a coat of enamel spray to protect this background while pencilling in/working on the images. And then with both sides protected, we waited a week and then enamel coated it again three more times, so that it can well survive being tucked into my Harrow deck bag (though with this in its own sheer bag to avoid any of that from coming off onto the cards. And with that, our project is at long last done! Painting finished October 17, 2024 (with enamel coatings after) |
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