Ideas for Hogwarts Houses d20s coloring
First post here as an r/dicemaking refugee, glad this place has a similar community!
So I've got a friend who is both a standard nerd and is also deep into Harry Potter. I've had the idea to make them a set of four d20's, each with coloring and patterns appropriate to the Hogwarts Houses, and maybe make a wooden/3d printed stand to display them on.
The biggest problem I'm currently facing is how the heck to get a bronze color/effect for Ravenclaw out of ink and mica powder, but I'm also open to any other generic style ideas.
Thanks!
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Isnt ravenclaw primarily blue?
Yeah but according to all the stuff I've read on various sites, each house has two colors
Gryffindor: gold and red Hufflepuff: black and yellow Slytherin: silver and green Ravenclaw: blue and bronze
Makes sense! Having a search around for various references, I see what you mean.
unsure what colours you have access to, or materials. If you have gold ink, you could mix in a tiny amount of brown to dull it a bit, more like bronze? Or if you haven’t got brown, red with a tiny amount of black, then mix that with gold?
It also seems theres various other possible colour schemes but I have no idea how canon they are.
Ive used these images as references
Nice! Those color charts are great, I might print them out so I can try to match the colors as I mix inks and powder.
I've got plenty of gold powder and something called copper but is actually more brown. I'll try with those, see what turns out
Easiest solution I can think of is to use a blank insert. You can paint it as needed, even use washi tapes.
Interesting idea, never done this before, always interested in learning. Just watched a quick video on using blanks, you can get some pretty cool effects! Unfortunately I don't have access to blank inserts now, I suppose those could go on my wishlist ha..
For bronze, I would mix brown ink into the resin, then slowly add gold mica until you like it.