Making Reflective Mirror Dice

Allright this gave me a genius idea. dice that have the weight of metal dice but sound like plastic dice.

What if one took an actual mirror and cut it into the shapes of the sides of dice, then epoxyed them together? I'm sure it would be insanely tedious, but would be curious of the result. Weight would probably be uneven for fair rolling purposes though.

I think you would have had a better mirror finish by polishing the dice before painting, and then applying several layers of paint, sanding and polishing between each. That's what's done in the luxury automotive business, notably at Rolls Royce for instance where they put a lot of layers (there's an example of a car which came out of the factory with 20 layers of paint) and do insane amounts of polishing to get that extra shine, which would probably help there.

Why not just use gold or silver leaf if you want that shiny metalic look, then incase it in a shell.

If you did reds or pinks on them, it might look a little like lipstick on the mirror

I like this mold set. Alot. I would be interested in seeing how it would work on chameleon paint instead of the chrome.

I would also be interested in seeing what it looks like to overlap colors. Like have red based dice then coating them in a transparent blue resin.

I need to quit dilly dallying and start doing this myself.

I wonder if you sanded them slightly after airbrushing (hopefully without actually taking the airbrushing off) it might be more reflective since the interface between the first layer and the second would be more perfectly flat. Also it could look really awesome if the shell was dyed just slightly green since the glass in mirrors does have that barely greenish tint to it. Still, looks great as is!

I wonder if you cut small pieces of plumber's tape (aluminium metal tape) for each face of the die, then put a clear shell on it afterwards, it would be even more reflective.

They do look good. Very attractive set.

I love the way they look with the outer shell, but I'm just not a fan of the nonstandard shapes for the D4 and D10/100 dice. They don't have any of those two-part molds with standard shape dice, do they?

the numbers look great. Love these dice.

did you steal Peter browns pressure pot, I'm telling mom

there are some airbrush only chrome paints out there you can try. enamel based tho

Polishing the outer surface layer may actually improve the quality of the reflection; it might not be the reflective surface itself, but light still passes through it twice in the process of being reflected. My vague memories of high-school optics suggest that this may be important, though whether or not it actually turns out to be is another thing altogether.

You could try silver clay. That ends up being actual silver and obviously you can get silver VERY shiny.

"A very scientific amount of black pigment"
0.25 g of pigment later
"That should do it."

My first thought is that if you wanted to get a more reflective look, you might try actually using a metal core, but that would obviously be expensive and heavy so that might not be your thing.

Are you the same guy who does Casually Explained?

I wonder if you spent time polishing the chrome finish- very high grit sandpaper, like 20k, and then also polished the outside, if it wouldn't increase the reflectiveness- because your assessment is accurate, you're looking at issues with the refraction of light as it passes through those layers, and surface imperfections are the one factor you have the most control over to stop the scattering.

Watched a couple of your vids now and youre like the dice/resin version of binging with babish

Hey!! hello before everything, i think they look amazing but i want to give you a....chemistry advice(im a chemistry engineer). try putting them in a vial and doing the Tolens solution. you can buy it as it is(a mixture between silver nitrate and amonium. after that you just add some sugar and you will have all the surface of the vial and the dice you put in there, covered in a thin silver layer. thats how mirrors are actually made...*flies away

You will never get clear reflections without polishing.

had me at dodecalicious, subscribed XD

adhesing foil to the inner dice and polishing it? found your stuff today and im loving it!

there are mirror uv films for glass that could probably help making mirror dice

Thanks for sticking it out, those drying times really are something.

Call me basic, but I would have inked those dice with just a jet black; I think the sheer amount of contrast would cause the numbers to pop out in a really cool way

I was thinking you should ink the numbers in black. Continuing to watch, I came to the realization that the unpainted numbers actually accent the mirror look you were going for. Great call, they look marvelous.

If you polished the surface of the black dice so they are smooth, and use a spray mirror finish, and maybe buff that out, if you're able to lay down an actual mirror finish on the dice instead of just what the air gun lays down, you may have a more reflective result.

They sell a gold mirror effect spray paint now

Wow now I feel like a dummy commenting on your older video before I saw this one xD`

The numbers actually look raised to me.

I like mine to be as hard and smooth as possible, too :)

Polish the black.

You need to fine sand after painting them

if you're brave enough, google electroplating, for a true chrome cover on your plastic. Also texture is 95% of what makes something reflective. So maybe go at it with 4000 grit sandpaper before chroming them up

Maybe use polished aluminum/stainless steel blocks as the core? Been binge watching some of your other vids, and the finished sets look absolutely amazing!

What if you did the black insides, but did a translucent glitter + blue/purple to make galaxy dice?

I would love to see you do the inner die with gold leaf on them.

Would love to see this redone but have you do a thicker coat of liquid chrome, then sand them juuuust a little to give them a super smooth finish before putting the shell on. It might help with the reflections once the shell is on

Thanks to a plug in I know this video has 31 dislikes B)

Needs a chrome box

Those came out really cool and I'm very quickly going to dive into those videos you mentioned on making the two-part molds. I just attempted my first set of resin dice this past weekend. They came out quite good for the very first attempt, but a number of lessons learned for sure.

New dice maker here. Love the videos. Where did you get the mood for the blank dice set and are they smaller then regular dice so they fit in the regular dice mold? Thx

i bet these would look really cool if you used a black paint pen to make frames on the chrome dice before you put them in the shell

Where can i get in/outside molds?

Love these

This was a very cool experiment.
It was the journey.
I want that mold in the mold system. I wonder if it'd work as an air or liquid core system.

I have around a percentile dice that just have 1 to 0 number on the air casing and a smaller red d10 inside that serves as units. It is biger than the rest but not by that much and I got it same solid red colored mini dices and I used to carry them with a d 30 transparent dice I just used for encounter-event-loot-manythings tables. I wish I had it ruby red too, but it was the same size as the transparent and solid red d100 shaker dice. It now sleeps in my character box with her red thumb sized book.

Your video brought me back. I'd go with them on my weird paladin concept... maybe desecrate them with gold numbers... but... nah! In doubts on a very unique batch, a big nope goes so far.😊

You asked for it, so here it is :) Took weeks to get the paint to dry to properly do these dice, and a few failed sets. So I hope you enjoy!