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Custom dice for board games, etc.
Edvard:
Paint.
Potentially messier, but more durable and customizable. You can get very small jars of paint at most craft stores, so you're not paying for a ton more than you need.
Find a paint that will stick to the material those die are made of, preferably a gloss enamel of some sort, so it's durable when dry, then just draw the designs on with a Sharpie after. FWIW, Sharpies also come in sets of colors, like crayons.
Deozaan:
I've got the PDF all ready to go for the printer:
Custom dice for board games, etc.
That's at 12.5% zoom (when you click it to view it "full-size"). I've got enough for 3 sets of 13 different dice in that image, with spare room for more. I'm really going to hate myself when I have to cut all these out and apply them one by one. :'(
Paint.-Edvard (April 28, 2016, 07:37 PM)
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That would be a decent suggestion if not for the fact that I'm not very artistic and as you can see above, the designs are a bit more complex than a simple sharpie can handle. Or at least more complex than what I can pull off with sharpies. :D
Ath:
Now I just need to figure out how to cut out the individual images from the sheet efficiently and accurately.
-Deozaan (April 28, 2016, 06:33 PM)
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scalpel knife and steel ruler as a guide, on a sturdy backing like plywood?
tomos:
^ a proper cutting mat/board will make it much easier (and wont blunt the blades so much).
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=cutting+mat+graphics&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Acutting+mat+graphics
wraith808:
I've got the PDF all ready to go for the printer:
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That's at 12.5% zoom (when you click it to view it "full-size"). I've got enough for 3 sets of 13 different dice in that image, with spare room for more. I'm really going to hate myself when I have to cut all these out and apply them one by one. :'(
Paint.-Edvard (April 28, 2016, 07:37 PM)
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That would be a decent suggestion if not for the fact that I'm not very artistic and as you can see above, the designs are a bit more complex than a simple sharpie can handle. Or at least more complex than what I can pull off with sharpies. :D
-Deozaan (April 29, 2016, 12:46 AM)
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Could you paint the colors, and then layer the stickers?
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