3/26/2023 0 Comments Makeshift diceboxYou just need to be able to smooth the glue out. Don’t use your nice painting brush for this. A medium paint brush you don’t mind ruining with glue. I recommend nice sharp scissors for cutting the felt. Craft knives are great for easily cutting foam, but scissors will also work fine. Scissors and/or a craft knife and cutting mat. DO NOT use hot glue it will leave lumps in the surface and will mess up your rolls! I used my bookbinding PVA glue, since I had it on hand. Regular white glue should work fine here. Lots of craft stores sell paper-sized loose sheets of felt, so grab one of those! Pick any color or pattern you like! It doesn’t matter what color, but I like using black since the box I used is clear. This is the thicker kind of craft foam you can find at craft stores. One 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of 6mm craft foam. That will make cutting the foam and felt out more difficult. One thing to make sure is that the inside is rectangular and doesn’t have any weird divots in the corners or anything. Pencil boxes are the right size and depth to roll in comfortably but are still totally portable. You can use almost any kind of box or tray for this, but to make a portable storage rolling tray, I used a plastic pencil box with a latched lid. There are a lot of fancy tabletop game accessories out there, but making your own dice rolling tray is both easy and cheap! The version I teach you how to make in this post does double-duty as a way to store and transport your dice and also works as a compact, cushioned rolling tray once you’ve reached the gaming table.
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