Dagamant

Finally got back into the swing of things after a busy busy busy few months. These are just neon orange and slightly transparent.

I’m also working on a set that will include coal taken from Centralia Pennsylvania, the town that inspired Silent Hill. I recently had an opportunity to visit and there were bits of coal all over the place and there are still places where hot air is being vented from the coal fires deep underground. I’ll post them in a few days.

Vast Grimm is a sci-fi horror rules lite tabletop RPG, like D&D but much simpler. I picked it up a few years ago and started playing it with friends before learning that the author lives in the same small city as me. Since then we have been doing a biweekly RPG night at a local brewery and I made this soap to match the aesthetic of his game which uses a lot of bright colors but especially pink and blue.

I did a mix of in the pot swirl and hangar swirl to get the colors really chaotic. I didn’t do anything fancy with the top, just smoothed it a little.

I made some mistakes with my first batch and learned from them. I still see a few issues here, mostly from panicking as the batter thickened and starting off a little too warm because I noticed my mixing bowl had a tiny hole that was leaking oil so I mixed the lye and oil a bit hotter than I should have, they were still close in temp though.

Commemorative set for one of my Starfinder players after a 2 year campaign. They played a samsaran so I used shades of pale blue and did swirls in transparent blue to represent their reincarnation lore.

They had a runin with a bodysnatcher slame that became a recurring character/gag so I made a small green dice snatcher slime to go inside their D20. Even managed to get the numbers to line up.

Red swirlled into clear with just a touch of red shimmer powder to catch the light once in a while. Fresh from the mold they still need polishing and inking.

The last time I made these I tried a black swirl in the middle and used gold and black foil in the resin. This time I did it a little different and they came out better. I put a bit of black in the bottom of the mold, added cellophane, the poured in the resin with just gold flakes. The picture doesn’t do them justice, they came out way better than before and this time I’m happy with them. They are in the pile to get resin inking and full polish.

I’ve started work on the project that got me into dice making in the first place. My friend Dom died earlier this year and his wife asked my to use his ashes in a set of memorial dice. We talked about it for a bit and settled on several things.I am making her a very large die, 100mm, that will encase a few small personal items of his, a 60mm die for his ex who was still very involved in his life, and several sets of standard dice for them to use. All of them will incorporate his ashes in some way. I’m also printing an insert for the 100mm die to make a base that his personal items will rest on.

This is my first test print for the 60mm die and there are some issues I have addressed for the second print which, barring any issues will be the one I polish and use for the mold.

I learned a lot since we decided on this memorial project and one of those things was CURE INHIBITION. For that reason, the mold will be tin cure silicone instead of platinum cure when molding 3D printed dice. I will also need some deep pour resin to make the 100mm one.

I dont always use UV reactive pigments but when I do I find out when Im curing the numbers 😵

fresh from the pot and Im super happy with them.

I wanted to try inverse clouds with black instead of white. It really muted the blue color and darkened them more than I expected. I don’t think they look bad but I’m kinda surprised at how much attention they are getting from people I show them to.