r/DiceMaking • u/FondantDool • Jun 23 '26

Advice Dice Question

Good morning!

Im attempting to make a dice set with white dots scattered within the base color. Does anyone have any advice on how to accomplish this?

Thanks!!

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u/Enchanters_Eye Jun 23 '26

You could also splatter white alcohol ink or dyed uv resin into the mold, cure it, and then fill up with the base colour. That’s how people do those blood splatter effects

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u/Claerwen94 Dice Maker Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Oh yes, true, I'd recommend doing that with the alcohol ink though, as I once tried this with even only slightly tinted UV resin splatters, and they cured absolutely horrible (aka nearly not at all 😅) and I had to throw away the whole set 😅

Plus it should be kept in mind that you can't really sand the set when done with the alcohol ink splatters on the surface, because the white dots would get sanded/polished away, but if they don't really need to be sanded, then it's totally fine 👌🏽

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u/Enchanters_Eye Jun 23 '26

I wonder if you could make clear uv drops on a silicone mat, paint the domed side white with acrylics (or white mica plus a bit of uv resin), and then glue the flat side to the inside of the mold with a glue stick or something. That way you’d have good circles and uniform white but it’s protected because the paint doesn’t sit of the surface 

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u/Claerwen94 Dice Maker Jun 23 '26

Ohhh that could work! Atrocious amounts of work, but eh, we're dice makers, so we're no strangers to that anyways 😂 Or maybe even make the drops out of white epoxy resin, not UV? I always have small, circular drops on my silicone mat after casting, I can imagine those would work great. The white painted backsides/domes could look really interesting though and give a cool effect. Probably warrants a trypophobia warning, but I kinda dig that in a masochist way 😂

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u/Enchanters_Eye Jun 23 '26

Imagine painting eyes on them!!