It's incredibly rare that a set turns out exactly as intended, but it sometimes happens. Like this one - the intention was to make a set that looked like coffee, and that's just what we got!
Fittingly, this set was sold as a gift for a barista!
davetansley
joined 1 year ago
This set uses one of my favourite techniques - hydro-dipping (or marbling).
With this technique, you drip special inks onto the surface of some water to make a pattern, then carefully dip a blank dice down into the water so that the ink folds around it. You then cast the patterned blank in resin to seal it.
The skulls in these dice were 3D printed on an Elegoo Mars 2 Pro printer and hand painted. Then they were cast in blank dice, then recast in proper moulds.
We did a run of this design as a full set last year and it proved popular. This time we're doing a run of D6s (for Warhammer/Yahtzee fans!).
I've been lurking and waiting for a dice making community to pop up :)
Dice making was our "pandemic thing". We just started down that rabbit hole one day and it grew and grew. We ended up making and selling a lot of dice, including this set.
It's a petri pour set - where you drip various inks into resin and gravity pulls down creeping strands into the dice body while it cures.
Life has got in the way of making more sets this last six months, but I'm looking for inspiration to get back into it.
