Why Change the Number Color of Your Dice? | Re-Inking
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2020
- Does the number color for your dice matter? I'm gonna show you why I think changing just a single color of your dice, even after they are already made, can turn your old unused dice, into a set that feels brand spanking new!
This video was a bit different than my normal video style, as it was more of a rant with some video backing. If you hate this style, be sure to let me know, but I had fun making it and getting to talk about a simple topic like this for once. I do hope that you enjoyed it. :)
One thing to note I will say, this video suffers tremendously from "4k vision". By that I mean, the numbers look far better in person and in hand. You are seeing these dice from an inch away, in 4k detail. Many of the tiny defects or color issues are essentially imperceptible without getting the dice almost IN your eye. This is a level of quality that I am totally fine with, as if I can't see a defect when I'm rolling the dice, them I'm good to go. But if that major quality difference matters to you, you may want to try other methods of inking and cleaning up your inking efforts. :)
This could be a great way to pass the time and get a new outlook on some of your old sets during this stay at home time during COVID-19. I hope that everyone is staying safe and that their families are doing well. Please be sure to put safety first over tabletop gaming.
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Dice idea: Try smashing some failed dice and pouring resin over the dice shards to make something interesting.
like filling a die with broken dice?
@@devdanferguson7616 Yea with shards of broken dice.
@@devdanferguson7616 I'd name those dice "Lessons Learned"
@@mimic3178 ah that's nice
I have something like that in mind for the future :)
80 sets of dice + years of acquiring dollar store paint + a whole lot of time on my hands = quarantine activity
80?! That'll certainly keep you busy!
You basically have 80 brand new sets ready and waiting :)
Just what I was thinking!
My boyfriend's hands shake, and it makes art stuff really hard for him, and he gets frustrated easily with it. This was one project we were able to do together. Thanks for sharing this, from the bottom of my heart.
I know this is very late but at my local games store we used to have painting nights where we'd paint miniatures. The most important thing I learned was to keep my wrists on the edge of the table in such a way that they are stable. It really helped me to do that at least. Hope you have a wonderful day!
Color theory and combination is always a fun thing to play around with, that's one from experience as a designer
It's all about colour theory ... XD
Brown set for a Ranger or Druid.
My brain.... "CARAMEL APPLE!"
I don't often want to eat dice, but when I do..... it's those.
AmyVolomorris those are totally Carmel Apple dice.
@AmyVolomorris Relatable. I have a set of Chessex dice that look delicious and I’ve resisted the urge....so far.
And am I the only one that saw the Red and yellow dice and thought McDonalds?
Me: hehe cottagecore dice
@@warriorcatskid003 shreck dice.
I had actually never considered matching dice to a character. Dice to a player, totally, but not so much to a character. Maybe all my friends and I just build characters that resonate too closely with ourselves.
Maybe you don't have enough dice. You need more dice. Trust me, you'll be happier with more dice.
@@Guest_1300 As a beginning dice goblin, I agree. I had one set when I was younger, and I've accumulated 8 sets of dice over the last few months. I will not stop until I have an overwhelming amount of dice and maybe not even then. I WANT ALL THE DICE. *I NEED ALL THE DICE*
Ellery mmmm I only have 1 full set of dice but I absolutely love them, they were a gift from a friend for the first time we all played dnd, it’s a green and black sort of swirley pattern with gold numbers
What? You mean you don't have different dice for different attack types?
One man's trash can be the same man's treasure if he opened his f*cking eyes for ones!
I felt that xD
The red numbers on the tiefling set of dice do NOT look how I thought they would, but holy hell. It looks so good! Can't wait for more UV resin coming next week :)
I've been toying around with re-inking dice for a year or so now and what works best for me with the chessex sets is using acetone / nail polish remover to remove the factory paint before going in with my own colors. Happy inking everyone! Now that I think about it, there are a few sets of mine which could use a makeover...
Thanks for the tip :)
If I repaint them with acrylic, will that set? Or will I need to add a varnish over top?
I'm a doll customizer and acetone is definitely great for removing this kind of paint! I'd also suggest using a spray/liquid varnish in gloss or matte (whatever you prefer) to better seal the color and help prevent chipping :)
@@franklinlewis1097 this is really late but he used a nail polish top coat which is basically resin that should work as a top coat on resin dice
Sorry I'm late, but doesn't acetone also remove the paint on the faces?
SO MANY CLICK-CLACK MATH ROCKS
Not enough, NEVER enough click clack math rocks.
YES
hello fellow dice goblin
Found the goblin
Pretty click clack math rocks
That caught me off guard when you swore
I know, it hurt to do :( I was editing at like 3am last night. I get silly at night.
Rybonator at least it was a good video
Ugh you’re making me long for the time where I’ll actually be able to tabletop game. I’ve joined a quarantine-friendly Facebook group and I’ve been learning how to use roll20. I still have my dice hoard poured out on the table next to me even when I can’t use it though. I just roll them absentmindedly while I play.
Feel the same. My friend and I (2/7 players) are the only ones with Dice hoards but we are only allowed to digital dice because we play on Discord. So I'm pretty sure we're both just rolling our dice, longing to roll them for the actual game
Yeah we do the digital rolls on roll20 because it’s easier for everyone to see them. They did trust me to roll for my character sheet for the new campaign we started so at least my D6s got an official workout lol.
It'd be cool if you did a kind of progressive multi-color; the '1' on the dice is solid color, the '2' has a little dot of another color, the '3' has more, etc. etc. until the last number is completely solid in another color. Fun for a corruption-mechanic type thing!
@@tamagothchic i have an artist in one of my old groups, and she used dice that matched the color palette of her character's art. She also consistently rolled well, and was a fantastic RPer who was able to perfectly balance progression with natural story flow.
Honestly one of my favorite players, she was a treat to DM for, and did a great job helping me with new players.
I'm digging this. I have a few ugly dice that could use some sprucing up.
Thank you for giving me another isolation activity, Rybo!
(Also, gonna try doubling down on the two-tone and try even smaller patterns and color combos!)
When I was younger I had this set of cheap yellow dice to get me started off. The problem was it had white numbers, and the white on top of the bright yellow as so hard to read out. So I ended up just rubbing a red crayon into the numbers and rubbing off the excess. It worked wonderfully. The crayon wax filled in the numbers easily while also being easy to wipe off on the surface but sturdy enough down in the numbers to not come off and reveal the whites again.
The red set is Chinese New Year colors! That's probably why it makes you think "asian".
The two tone ink idea is actually really awesome for those that take longer than normal to process numbers, like myself! I'll have to do that with some of my dice sometime soon!!!
Very cool, thank you. I had a set of dice in a beautiful dark color with nearly unreadable dark numbers. They were unusable and rested in the dice bag for nearly 20 years. I just repainted them with a silver color pen and now they are absolutely beautiful. Thank you for your video.
That's so awesome! What a great repurpose of such an old/awesome set :) Glad this helped in some small way!
Sitting here, ive just realized ive been watching your videos for over a year now. Congrats on the 100k!
with inking, i've found that multiple coats are the trick--- it looks a lot better with many coats, especially when the original color hasn't been removed
I literally gasped out loud when you painted the first number on the blue set. Gorgeous!! I'm a paint pen person, I use the ultra fine tips and let the paint flow into the numbers rather than trying to paint them. It gives a better coverage with less overflow.
How cool that i saw my name in the backers. Gotta admit, make me smile. This was a great video and a cool way to bring new life to old dice. Gotta go get my paints! Stay safe, thanks for the content.
That black, blue and gold pair I actually have for one of my characters!! He's a tiefling sorcerer and the colours of the dice ended up matching his general aesthetic really well so I went with it but I think it's really neat seeing how the feel of them changes so much with a re-ink
I need a dice playlist just for things like this.
Loving the video! That green and gold combo? HECK YEAH!
Please consider making a video of the best way to fix failed dice (holes, number mold fails, breaks/cracks) if you have any or are willing to try? the most heartbreaking pics in dice making community are of those that came out of the molds failed TT.TT
I cannot believe I just found this video. I have been wanting to have new hobby but didn't want to go completely into making dice. This is perfect. Thank you
You're secretly a dragon, aren't you, hoarding the gold shiny things. LOL! It's amazing what a tiny change can do.
Now that you have some clear molds, I would love to see your half-n-half idea spread to resin pouring :) Pour one half of the die with 1 color, the other half with a different color, and see how it goes! Particularly curious how 2 translucent colors would blend together when looking at the die from certain angles (e.g. translucent yellow+magenta should give a fiery red when looking through the die)
I've actually done a combo pour of two colors when I tested the Sophie and Toffee dice molds. Two translucent colors as well :) But don't think that doesn't mean I won't be doing more!
Love the color theory man
that was fun. I like the two tone inking of the number and how you are inspired by your very own coloring experiments.
Without the ending I would not have realized that this a plan B video - this is a perfectly fine video in its own right.
I tried this, without knowing what I was doing... long story short, acetone melted my dice 😂😂 I'll try it again now I have a tutorial!!!
... how? xD did you use aceton?
Oh, heavens, you have to be careful with acetone. It will melt certain types of dice.
@@jameskrolak i assumed that, but i wasn´t sure :D
@@martjanamoon1785 I've heard that acetone only is horrible when used on acrylic dice, but I don't know if it still can do that to typical resin dice.
@@jameskrolak I do not know what materials my dice are made of, but I won´t risk anything and just paint over the old colour... But thanks for the advice!
The first set shown as intro b roll is my favorite one haha, alongside nebula purple.
I’ve been doing some reinking a bunch of my dice during quarantine and it’s really fun!
I only have one and a half set of dice they don´t really match each other. they were gifts and they are kinda cool, but i never thought of inking them myself, i guess i should give it a try to spice them up, thank you :)
"i only have one and a half set" boy oh boy, *that* certainly changed over the years
in the meantime i finally started playing dnd, and i multiplied my dice collection (i have far over 60 dice now) and inking them to match my characters better is one of my favourite things to do ^-^
Simple and dramatic. Love it!!
i love reinking! i’ve done two sets so far - a clear and dark blue swirl set, which i changed from white to silver, and a really boring black set i got for free which i changed from white to lavender to suit a character! they both came out super pretty and i used stuff i already had so it was literally free!
the lead paint with the gold peaking around the edge gives me a elder scrolls 4 oblivion vibe and i love it
I’ve reinked a few sets and I’m super into it! My favorite has been sprucing up a black set to have candy corn numbers. A tad annoying making sure all 3 colors were even but I love that set now!
I definitely have done this once, after buying this set of cool looking dice translucent-ish with gold flecks inside and purple numbers... turns out that irl, the dice looked almost murky and gray, and the purple numbers didn't stand out at all. I ended up painting them a nice turquoise color... and interestingly enough, the old purple color of the numbers still showed through the BACKS of the numbers, which creates sort of a cool effect when viewed from the other side.
Yes! Please do a video about reinking and taking the paint that is beneath off! I just ordered a set that is clear see through and is beautiful but has black numbers which is totally not the vibe.
I'm a sentimental broke person whose only set of dice is a basic chessex set with plain white numbers and the most basic shade of mid green ever, that I got as a birthday gift when I was 12~13. Took an old yellowish marker to the numbers and it truly makes a difference
Thanks man for opening my eyes. I bought a pound of chexxix dice and this helped me polish the duds.
The bottom right corner at 0:39 with the blue/black, purple/black, red/black and blue/gold already look really nice to me, id buy
As someone who changed the white on a couple of fancy skull red d20s I got to gold, have to agree it has changed them. Before they felt more cartoony and what I might not have minded being cut up slightly if I ever make some dice moulds, now I have a perfect character in mind for them and can't wait to use them.
"putple teifling bard-"
Me: *nervously sweats*
ah nice to see this! i reinked a set of dice i had, and the original white was still showing a bit and i thought i'd done something wrong! turns out that's just chessex lol. but i'd love to see the video on removing the original ink! i have a couple sets i'd rather do that with before reinking.
"Utah Jazz or LA Lakers"
pouts in Minnesota Vikings
Super gonna have to try that 2-tone thing though!
You and Lizzo over here on the Vikings train haha. :)
It's really great!
It could also work for some lsu dice
*looks at cheap dice sets*
*looks at cheap acrylic paints*
well, i know what im gonna be doing this week
Didn't even realize you could re-ink dice until a couple weeks ago when one of my friends was re-inking a set during a virtual happy hour. Now I've ordered some jack o lantern dice sets and Culture Hustle's Black 3.0 and LIT glow pigment to make some fun Halloween sets
Im using sakura gel pens and they work pretty good too!!
one fun thing to do sometimes is to sort of frame the dice edges in a color, and wipe it on a flat surface just right so that the paint just sits on the curved area of the edges. It doesn't work with sharp edge dice and it can be pretty time-consuming since to get it as neat as possible you have to kind of take it corner by corner and let it dry in between, and it takes some practice to keep it clean without just wiping all the paint off but it can get some really awesome results. I used it on some chessex blow in the dark blue dive and framed it/inked it in silver and it's one of my favorite sets
It changes the entire feel of the dice. I got a green/blue set that i reinked in lime green. Really pops and gives it a more earthy character.
I am part of a fb thread about how to un-ink and re-ink dice using anything from nail polish to acrylic paint.
Definitely going to try this with some meh dice I have. I have this orange and white stone-like colored d20 that I love except the gross sickly yellow-green inking.
@Rybonator How do you stand on non-uniform color schemes for a dice set? Like lowest number is one color, highest number is another - and the middle could either be all gold or two colors (below and above average). Yes, it is hard to find 3 fitting choices for any dice variation there is. But it is an easily achievable visual cue for crits & fails without the need to cast a custom dice.
Totally dependent on the color of the dice IMO. I would do it for a singular color dice, but a two tone dice would just have too much going on IMO. Something like the brown dice I used in this vid where it's 1 color, but slight variations of that color would work just fine, and then you could have 2 - 3 colors on the inking. :)
pure comedic gold, and beautiful dice. fuckin lovely
This was a really good video and I now have a reason to buy a painters kit so I can spruce up some of my misc dice. But I will probably still continue buying dice because I'm such a dragon dice hoarder.
I did some re-inking a couple months ago and found that if I paint the numbers (used posca pens) and waited until the paint didn't smudge, I could use my nails to carefully scrape off the excess around the edges to reduce the amount of old paint showing. Works a lot better than wiping to make it perfect, but it's time consuming. I'd love to see you revisit this later, with steps on how to remove the old paint safely. I see people mentioning nail polish remover, but that might damage the finish of the dice. It would also be useful to talk about longevity; maybe using some sealant? Acrylic paint can chip, and I'm a little worried about it with my own painted dice. The color comes off when scraped. But yeah, re-inking is brilliant! I love having customized dice for different characters.
I love the idea of duo or multi-colored numbers on dice! Good idea! For the yellow set at 7:43 might I suggest repainting the numbers with orange and purple? Or red and purple? You weren't too fond of it and I kinda agree. The purple is nice, but maybe change the white parts of the numbers to orange or red? Just a thought as I was watching. Stay safe and have a great week!
Wow thanks you actually saved me mony with this because I have a new character for a supposedly long-running campaign but I didn't have the dice to fit
Excellent video! Thinking outside the box gives way to grand ideas. Maybe try white dice and painting the numbers each a different color ( aka a reverse rainbow ). Have you tried hydro-dipping a set of dice? I'd like to se if you could make a camouflage set. Thanks and keep up the good work and stay safe!
Readability is more important to me than aesthetics.
98% of the time I agree. If I have a green dice, even if a different green would look super cool, I don't go with it. Otherwise I would have gold on gold on gold on gold.
I agree but some sometimes you just can’t get a good color to also be readable.
I inherited my dice from my father-in-law who got them in the '80s. All of them are transparent and all of the d-20s' inks have worn completely off and to make it worse, they have a *tiny* period to distinguish 9s from 6s, making them unreadable to all the players at the table but me because I've used them so long. Despite this I refuse to touch them up or exchange them for another set.
The lesson to take away is sometimes, sentimentality trumps all.
P.S. I don't know if this is still in fashion, from what I've seen of my fellow players' sets it's not, but the d-4s also have their numbers at the base of the tetrahedron instead of the point so you have to read the number standing from the table. Mixed in with them is a 20 sided d-10, so it's a d-20 with 1to 10 written on it twice. When I asked my mom's husband about it he laughed and said "that's the dice you lend to new players, if they don't believe in dice curses they will after that and you'll never get your dice stolen because yours are always shite." I've since been banned from lending dice because mine are too confusing to read. XD
Geniuse
You just gave new hope to some of the dice I own and that others own
Thanks
Love your channel. Thank you so much.
Hmm, never would have thought to try this. (starts planning to paint when I get my dice back after quarintine)
Im so happy Im not the only one who cares about this. I chose my first set of dice just because the numbers were red, making them look more interesting than the others. A few sets later, I've bought a raw set of dice from Kraken Dice in order to ink on the colour myself. While it didn't turn out exactly like I had expected, I still enjoy them.
Now one of my only peeves with most dice is that they all seem to have the same or similar fonts that Im not particularly fond of. That's not something I can fix as easily of course, so Ill be happy with what I got in the meantime.
I inked my dice with crayola crayons when I first started playing almost 2 decades ago. They have held up for years and multiple cleanings with dish soap and toothbrushes.
If you put two fresh inks on one number together I wonder if it would make a fun gradient?
They would probably have to be runny enough to make that happen, and runny paints don't make for a fun inking experience :/
@@Rybonator that's a shame, I guess that's the limits of needing a good consistency for the right application.
I usually do one color first, let it dry about halfway and then paint with the other color, overlapping them as gently as I can in between for that nice gradient. Then just make sure you're wiping your excess off perpendicular to your gradient rather than up or down it.
I came here to confess I have too many dice but I just enjoy having a huge pile/handful of them. Very satisfying.
My wife and I decided to take some inspiration from this video and re-ink a few sets of dice. She took a generic red/orange set (with white inked numbers) and repainted them yellow and yellow/green. They now look perfect for her dragonborn character. I took a black/white marble pattern (with white numbers) and painted the numbers red. And then I gave them to my wife along with the dice box/tray I made for her (from watching one of your other videos). Finally, I took a light purple set (with black numbers) and re-inked with "peacock" (from WalMart). I'm not sure what character they will be used with, but they look amazing compared to their original look.
I want those dice!!!! Electric blue and Black soooo beautifull!!
I have a loot of mismatched dice sets in a bag, I might try to spray paint them in mat black and test some colors for the numbers.
I’ve got this set of space theme dice that I got when I was accidentally sent the wrong color. They’re white shimmer with a pink to gold iridescent shift, and the numbers are blue. I have sort of a hyper-cute princess thing going on, so I thought I could turn them into unicorn dice. Thanks for showing me :3
If you want a good glitter acrylic paint, I can't recommend Folk Art Dragonfly glaze enough. It's a "white dries clear" paint and is densely packed with glitter. I have a bottle of holographic "rainbow" and it's amazing.
Finding out that my very first set is the same as Rybonator’s very first set is a very good experience
Same way you did the two tone it's also possible to do a gradient colour by using two paints instead of one!
The red, purple and silver dice scream Megatron. I'll probably replicate exactly that to make some of my own!!
Oeh I should try this!!! Got some great sets for this
Just what I needed to spices up the most boring apocalypse ever!
Happy to make it a spicy apocalypse for you my friend!
Many of the dice you and most people have are mixed colored dice, any thoughts on how to actually resin cast mixed colored dice?
I like all my dice, and much like you I could never do that to my first set so I won't repaint any of my dice. Maybe someday I'll buy one that's meh just to re-ink it
I re-inked a set of D6s for Shadowrun using a red dry erase marker on all of the 1s and a green dry erase marker on all of the 5s and 6s. I left the 2s, 3s, and 4s with the factory ink. This way makes the hits and glitches stand out, and it was fast and easy to do (per die, a full set of 36 took a while).
I bought an acrylic dice set that was a translucent aqua green color with holographic blue glitter on the surface, and I liked the effect, but I really didn't like the weak glittery sliver ink in the numbers, so I borrowed silver and white Gundam markers from my friend and not only do the numbers really shine now, but they're also so much more readable.
Thanks. This was nice
I wish I had the eyes to do that. I'm always on the hunt for easy to read dice. This Blind man loves dnd but dice can be hard sometimes. Getting enough that are easy to see and not have them grow legs... not easy
This is so awesome!
I need a Dice Goblin shirt, btw... maybe a polo for work. He just makes me happy with his saucy little bat ears.
My first dice set was grey (plastic trash can grey) with no inking. What could I possibly do to these to spruce them up other than a slingshot?
The yuck brown to druid forest was the best glow up
Hey Ry what type of chemicals takes the paint off the dice WITHOUT damaging the dice? The fans need to know!
A swipe of acetone/nail polish remover removes the factory paint, then you can dry and reink them! I'm not Ry, but hopefully that helps ^.^
Tohru Chan I had no idea!!
Tohru Chan hey just removed the paint from my Skew Dice from @TheDiceLab and it worked wonders!
Yes more shiny rocks
@rybonator I am trying to find something to remove the existing paint but not damage the plastic dice, do you have any suggestions?
I wonder if using a rock tumbler would work for polishing the dice. Maybe not the larger grits because the resin is still pretty soft compared to a rock, but starting with finer grits could possibly work.
I don't even play dnd but I watched almost all your videos
Hey Rybonator you probably won't see this but I think you should try and make dice that work for advantage and disadvantage where it's basically a big dice with a little dice inside like a magic 8 ball. I think that would be really cool anyway keep up the great work I really like your videos
What are some brands of paint you would reccomend? What kind of paint stays on the best?
so how do I remove the new coat of paint if I wan't to change the color, use the alcohol to remove it?
After watching this I inked a cheap D20 with each number a different color, it turned out pretty cool also instead of paint brush I used a mechanical pencil which worked great.
I'm too old. Crayons were the norm for this decades ago. Cool video!
How would I go about removing the paint from my dice? I’ve tried acetone or iso alcohol, but they both leave a matte surface on the dice, so they’re obviously damaging them. Ive seen someone recommend LA Totally Awesome Cleaner; any other suggestions?
hey 1 question are the dice that you make all balanced so that they have equal chance of landing on each side
I want to also make dice, but I don't kow where to start with materials immediately available to me.
I have a set of dice, no silicone, I have PLA scrap. Is there anything in a kitchen that I might be able to use to at least cast dice so I can use crayon wax or something to make the final product?
Could you use a Dremel to try to work out some of those numbers? And if you were going to remove the old paint how do you go about doing that?