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| It looks cool, but there are many hidden hazards! |
At MikeCon 3, I encountered a bit of a problem. Whilst playing on highly detailed and landscaped tables looks really cool, I felt is added a layer of impracticailtiy: namely rolling dice. It felt like my dice were forver getting caught in the cracked ground or gaps between board sections. I felt I needed to do something. Dice trays seem to be all the rage right now, so I felt like throwing my take in the ring.
Here's my quide to an (easy) dice tray!
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| All the stuff I used. Tape, Knife, Pencil, Ruler, Sheet of Paper (can be scrap, but must be whole), Bamboo Tray from Reject Shop ($9) and Felt (<$2 at Spotlight). My felt is the adhesive kind; non-adhesive would require a gluing stage. |
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| 1. Cut your paper into 4 peices. Each should have one precise 90 degree corner. |
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| 2. Place one peice of paper into on corner. The precise 90 degree corner should be in the tray's corner. |
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| 3. Add another peice, making sure the 90 degree corner is also right in a corner. Tape it to the first. |
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| 4. Continue like this with all 4 peices. |
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| 5. This should yeild a template with the exact same dimensions as the tray. |
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| 6. Use this to cut out your felt. The self-adhesive felt has a backing sheet- use this side to outline your template. |
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| 7. Cut out your felt and test in your tray! |
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| 8. Peel back one corner of your felt and anchor it right in the corner of your tray. |
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| 9. Smooth out the felt as you peel away the rest of the backing. |
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| 10. Completed! |
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| Rolling dice never felt so satisfying! |
Also popular are high-sided photo frames, but I couldn't ind one that was smaller than my felt. The handle-holes have so far not allowed any dice through.
I imagine that if your felt was not self-adhesive, you would apply PVA
liberally, smooth it it, lay the felt and put a snug-fitting book on top
until the PVA dries. Sources say that you don't want the felt coming free; unstuck bits really get in the way. There were many more colour choices for non-adhesive felt, but I was going for convenience here. This tray took less time to make than to blog about making it!
I'll try making some in line with my armies I think.
And yes; I totally felt the need to keep using that word!
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