I got this beautiful dice tower from @wingedyera for my birthday. I wanted to go for a very mossy and overgrown look and I'm very happy with how it turned out!
Made a D&D dice tower for my brother for his Christmas gift.
It's almost completely made out of trash I had lying around my house. The tower itself is a Pringles can with cardboard cones for the roof base, and the bricks and shingles are cut out of styrofoam plates. The texture is done with paper towel and Mod Podge, which I papier machèd over the entire thing. This also improves the structural integrity.
You can't see them in this pic, but there's also a couple ledges on the inside of the tower. They make the dice tumble and bounce around inside instead of just dropping straight to the bottom.
It's a little plain (I tried to use dried moss for climbing vines, but couldn't get them to stick), but I think it's pretty decent for a first attempt. Maybe I'll try adding windows to my next one. 😁
Painting to order. Model printed on a 3D printer. Has a dice tower function. The customer is happy, now it’s a pity to part with such beauty (I'm actually humble^-^).
You seem to have a fascinating array of different skills. If you don't mind me asking, how did you learn to build so many different things? I couldn't even begin to figure out what skills I'd need to learn as a prerequisite to building an aviary or a wizard tower, but damn if I don't want to know now.
A lot of it is just trial and error, and research, and just going 'fuckit I'm gonna give it a go.'
I do have surprisingly broadly trained formal skill set--stage carpentry, electrical work, audio and lighting and rigging from my tech days, odd bits of floral arrangement and staging from event planning, woodworking and sculpting and painting and bookmaking and textiles and printing from my art school days, and all the various and sundry that go into BFA in graphic design, since I double majored. And law school significantly bolstered my research and analysis skills, which is handy in odd ways.
But mostly--I find whatever reference materials I can, and ask someone who has expertise if I'm able, and I just try things. Often I make mistakes. Rarely do I make mistakes that I cannot recover from, and every time I learn something important from it.
The wizard tower was going to be built around a spiral staircase, and I was going to have to learn how to pour concrete slabs in order to make it work. But alas...
“The dice is stuck in the tower by the tongue,” I report to my friends with expected nonchalance. “Yes. By the tongue on the dice tower, that’s correct.”