Dice Tower

Hi All,

Today I will share how to make a dice tower, Though Dice towers are not as popular in India, I wanted to make it as decoration, So one can use this to play with kids or as a decoration. Most of the things used are avaliable at home and you do not need a 3d printer to build one

Few years back I made "falling dominos", which I made for my son, which he was not using / playing with, any more. So I decided to reuse them as stairs in the dice tower.

This helped in reducing build time too

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Material

• Empty Pringle box
• Wooden strips or blocks
• Cardboard ( Corrugated box )
• Tissue paper
• Acrylic Paints
• PVA glue / fevicol
• Paper cutter
• Scissors

To Make Stairs

• Measure inner diameter for the pringle box (Mine 70 mm)
• Now we need to drill holes at 35 mm from corners
• Refer the diagram, I drilled holes from flat edge at 30mm
• Glue the wooden strips with inserting a skewer
• Add a 70mm wood block, at the end to stop dice to roll on the back side, as shown
• Add support dowels to it
• Add a SemiCircle cover on the top
• Slide everything inside the pringle box

• Cut a door at the bottom of the box
• Cut 10mm strips for corrugated box
• Glue these strips as shown to give a brick work
• Leave sufficient gap of atleast 1 to 2 mm in between

• To make a the top, we need two 90mm circles and long strip on 30mm
• Stick the two circles together with one strip on the sides to make a small cylinder
• Cut 15mm squares on another strip as shown 15mm and stick it on the cylinder as shown

• For Base, cut a 100mm circle and 20 mm strips of cardboard
• Glue the strip on the side of the circle to make as small cylinder as shown

• Before we paint anything, we want to close holes and fill gaps
• mix PVA glue ( fevicol ) + water in equal ratio in a container
• Apply tissue paper and this mixture on base, top and tower as shown
• Let it dry for few hours
• We do not want to overdo, one or two layers are enough
• Do not apply too much of the liquid mixture, as this could harm the overall shape of each structure

• I used acrylic colors
  • Brown paint as base
  • Dry brush : Green, White and hint of black
• I highlighted all bricks using a black sketch pen
• Even drew brick work on the base and top

Let it dry for few hours and then You are ready to play with it

I hope you like this, Please share comments and suggestions