Making Fake Ice Inside Dice | Lemonade Dice
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Ahh, tis the season for Pumpkin Spice, and I, Rybonator, Master of the TH-cam Algorithm, choose to make LEMONADE dice, an iconic SUMMER drink... In October.
I am not a smart man.
👻🍋Haunted Lemonade🍋👻
Are we 100% sure it's JUST lemonade and not a trick?
Jod1 that sounds awesome 😁
Just put the video upside down, the southern hemisphere is moving into summer :)
My mom would love these. Lemons are her favorite fruit
The Rybonator Skillshare cinematic universe is getting intense
Wait untill some mobsters kill my dog, and I turn into Rybo-Wick
@@Rybonator almost did an actual spittake jfc lolol
"Creators like you and I"
Me, who is definitely not a creator and watches these videos just because I really like dice but will never ever make a set on my own.
"Yeah, you and I!"
hahaha I felt the same way :)
as soon as I saw the little foam strawberries... STRAWBERRY MILK DICE
OH MY GOSH YES! It's elementary school all over again :D
Milk isn't very see-through. I guess with a marble like effect it could work
Oooh, if a marble effect can be done in resin I would love love love to see it. Especially like this!
I have made strawberry milk and banana milk dice. Tbh, they look delicious.
Honestly, instead of ice dice for Christmas, you could try to use the swirling glitter orbs but fill them with water and larger white glitter for some snoglobe dice?
When life gives you foam lemons, you make lemonade dice. “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
The Dice Are A Lie
@@Rybonator cake is a lie themed dice?
@@joshuadixon6026 Yes Mr Johnson
Portal themed dice would be amazing
@@Rybonator half and half blue and orange dice.... itd be beautiful
I need portal dice now
Thanks for lemonstrating a new technique! The dice looked so apeeling. I could tell you really did your zest in this one.
I’ll seed myself out now.
I seed what you did there, berry clever.
I would like to ask for more, if you've got the lime.
@@sdtwirix1126 It’s been a long time since i have indulged myself in puns so lime not so sure but can certainly try squeeze some more out for you.
@@anonpal8998 wow that got sour lol
These dice are adorable, although most of the lemonade I'm used to is lighter and cloudy. But they get the vibe across. :)
BTW: the fruits are made of Fimo or similar, which is a polymer clay, not foam. So they're clay fruits, less alliterative, more accurate. 😉
Consider this a 'sugar free' lemonade (eww) haha :)
Oh I didn't know that! They behave just like foam, and are so squishy/retain their shape!
I watched Jurassic Park again last night and just thought "Damn, Rybonator should make mosquito-in-amber dice"
I haven't been able to find a good bug to put inside! It's always on my to-do list :)
You could always get fake bugs, things like extremely tiny miniatures of preying mantis' or beetles
@@xleplayVA yeah I think practical joke shops are probably the place to look. There are those fake ice cubes you can buy with flies inside, maybe something like that?
Had you considered adding the “ice” in a second partial pour and then covering it with a final pour? That way they could “float” a bit yet still be contained? You could wait till the second layer had started to thicken before adding the “ice” if you wanted precise placement. Of course, matching the resin color gets tricky with a third pour.
That's not a bad idea, just simply doing 3 pours - The only issue is then it can float to the sides which would ruin the dice if silicone sticks to an edge :(
I was thinking along the same lines with the restrain it with resin, was leaning more towards a UV cure resin drop if it matches the epoxy used enough visually.
Though I also wondered if putting a deliberate void/pattern into the resin die chunk and then dripping fresh clear silicon into it could work - it would then suction in really well to the texture of that die chunk and as silicon sticks to itself (at least without mould release) really really well you can drop your chopped up crushed ice silicon on top of those now filled voids. So this might be a job for a vacuum casting system - pull all the air out of the mixed resin before you do that first pour, then deliberately introduce bubble or textures to the top face of that cast afterwards for the little silicon drips to be dripped into - shouldn't matter much if its really quite bad on the top, your next resin pour will be so close in refractive index and the voids hopefully small enough that its just softening the colour to clear resin transition a bit.
@@Rybonator could you do the blanks method with the clear shell? That would negate the concern for the silicone "breaking out"
@@foldionepapyrus3441 Even if the UV resin doesn't stick to the silicone well, you could potentially encase the silicone chunk all the way in UV resin. I bet that would hold it down.
Have you tried uv resin? I would think a little glob of it would be able to keep them secure after curing.
Btw, love the dice!
Thanks Puestoak :) Not a bad idea! I should give that a shot next time :D
@@Rybonator Or put the ice in as part of the first pour? Hopefully they wouldn't move if you can place them in the middle, and they'd already be on top?
I thought of that too! I'm trying it right now on some dice ! I'm doing pink lemonade instead though.
Here is an idea for some Ice Dice. Since the Fizbans Treasury of Dragons is coming out soon, end of October, you could do an White Dragon/Dragonborn set? Been eagerly waiting for this book since I heard about it.
Oh that's a fun idea! I was thinking Icewind Dale, but this is good too :)
They have gem dragons now!!!!
Please make a set of gem dragon dice!!!💜🐉
Watching this as I'm painting my first miniature, looking at the dice box I made following the directions from one of your videos. You've managed to give me the courage to start working on this hobby and stop worrying about how I'm gonna f* it up. Thanks, Rybonator!
That's so awesome Stefan :) Congrats on finding your hobby courage! I still lose mine from time to time, but always enjoy when I find it again :)
Hi Rybonator! Its really cool to see you experimenting with these kind of ideas! After figuring out my pressure pot and mold, I finally got to pouring my dice! They came out pretty good but had a few voids, flashing, and the mold started to deteriorate because I forgot to cast my cap in the pot. Have overall decided that Etsy molds are high quality and relatively affordable, do you think there's anything specifically that I should look for? (leaning cap or cap-sprue)
I have been going for more cap molds lately, as they allow for easy inclusions like this :) Sprue however are far more beginner friendly, if you are willing to do the small bit of extra clean up. I think either is fine, but if you plan on doing a lot of inclusions, go cap :)
@@Rybonator thank you!!!❤️
Love this so much lemonade is my favorite drink of all time. I love lemon any thing. Also yellow any thing, they look so amazing.
Thanks Reveca :D Minute Maid or bust baby!
could use a dab of uv resin to get stuff to stick!
also if you reverse the order you dont have to get the stuff to stay down at all, itll float the appropriate stop
That is a great idea! I should have thought of that :D
AHH, why wouldn't you make these in summer?
BTW I'm really thankful to you, I followed your instructions on one video and now I know how to make dice and made some, thanks!
Because I am a big ol' dumbo haha.
That's awesome LT :D I'm really proud for you!
I swear you're part dragon, with your love of gold, these look heccen awesome!
I only ever show my hands... Perhaps I'm just a dragon with tiny silicone human hands to aid in my disguise!
😋🍋❄️ cool (also thank you Rybomom for providing an episode idea or helping to make one)
Rybomom is a rockstar :)
Rybonator awesome 😁
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These look amazing!! I can't wait to show my daughter this video - she is 8 and loves lemons and lemonade, and her favourite colour is yellow, and she loves your videos. Previously her favourite was the one narrated by Mrs Rybonator but I think this one will definitely be her new number one 😁😁😁
Aww!!
This dice set makes me want to drink lemonade and/or eat lemon drissle cake, so you did an excellent job in my eyes
Now I think it'd be interesting to make dice using different powdered drink mix. I know you've used chocolate powder before, but now I'm curious the kind of colors you can get with like Kool-aid mix, iced tea, hell even lemonade for some real lemonade dice.
Oh I like the idea of a tang/kool-aid set :) Especially with some fake ice inside it!
Ah, kool-aid. The Tumblr Leather dye. Honestly, it would probably work, assuming nothing reacts to the resin.
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Gonna comment this again
Suggestion: a dice set where each dice is made of a material that has the same amount of letters as numbers of its dice.
For example...
a D4 made out of BONE
a D6 made out of LEAVES
a D8 made out of WOODPULP
and so on!
Oh god, the d20 is gonna be rough haha. But I like the idea :)
I made some giant iced americano dice for my DM. I used a silicone miniature ice cube tray to cast resin ice cubes - they were half clear, and half barely tinted white resin slightly swirled so that they would show up in the dice really well. Then I stuffed my molds once the ice cubes had cured, and poured in resin that was half colored to look like really dark coffee, and the other half clear (since an americano is espresso added to water). I hoped the resin ice cubes would help alleviate any balance issues since in theory they would be the same density as the rest of the dice. 😊 They came out good, certainly not perfect, but my DM loves them!
Also: Thank you for all your videos and tutorials! You’re my go-to for learning to make dice molds and dice. 😊
yesss... and you definitely need to use those strawberries in a set!! I wonder what trying to make strawberries plants in the dice would look like
Blueberry lemonade is my favorite!! Black raspberry is a close second. I could see blue or purple paint work to add the fruity splash without more inserts! These turned out gorgeous and now I must have delicious citrus sparkle water
I respectfully submit wifeonator was the best transition
Rybowife/WIfeonator is top tier no doubt
They are absolutely refreshing! If life gives you lemons, make dice! They really quenched my thirst!
Proud of you and your puns
@@Rybonator yay! Im gonna be stinkin rich!
This is why I love your content, you make such cool and interesting things that I've never seen on any other channel!
Aww thanks Lucas :) That really means a lot
@@Rybonator No problem! :)
You're so freaking talented omggg.
You should try to do a blueberry lemonade set at one point! If you can just find some super small blue/purple beads would look perfect t as blueberries!
These turned out beautiful! I'd love to see flavored lemonades from this - strawberry, blueberry, maybe even raspberry? Whatever's in that jar! One of each fruit would make an incredible set, I think.
Here is an idea: how about christmas present themed dice?
(Like... gift-wrapper dice?)
I can do that :) I tried last year but messed up and didn't get anything worth posting a video on
Also perhaps some sprue molds usage? Lately you've shown us a lot of "cap molds go ham". I miss the sprue mold.
Hey Rybonator! Thanks so much for sharing your creativity with all of us. It's super inspiring and I've even started making dice now too! I saw in an older vid of yours that you tried using a pottery wheel as a sanding surface but that it's pretty massive lol I actually got a tiny pottery wheel (literally fits in the palm of your hand) on Amazon for like $20 and was able to use that for my dice polishing instead. It works great! Just wanted to let you know in case you'd like to try it too ^_^
I've actually had these fruit glitters for years, I saw them at Michael's and HAD to buy them even though I had no idea what to use them for. Now, this is an AMAZING idea, and I'm totally making sets of fruit dice. Bless.
You could do a dice set for each of the chromatic, metallic and gem dragons.
Using the "ice" for the white dragon!
Bones floating in acid for the black
Magma for the red
storm cloud for the blue
swirling poison for the green
When you see the funny number in the background ;)
Gelatinous cube dice. Float something in some clear (green?) silicone cubes, then lock those into some clear dice. Bonus points if it looks like a cube on like a stone floor or something.
I too have recently watched that Insider video. These dice look so good. You could legit do a range of pudding dice. Strawberry shortcake is the first to come to mind
I've seen people do like, a whole dice inside another one. Like one fully decorated plain dice that later is put inside a numbered clear dice. Would love to see how that is made :o
I’ve never wanted to hold dice more than at his moment
idea: you could fill the molds with the lemonade part first and then do the clear part. counteracts the surface tension problem because this time it's the right way around, and you wouldn't have to find a working glue anymore because the pieces would be allowed to float up. essentially, just reverse the gravity.
I use sea salt (the kind used for making scented bathing salts) for ice effects in my resin jewelry and stuff. It sinks, and stays white. I wish I could post a pic of it, but I love it with clear resin.
instead of glueing them, put the inserts in the clear resin layer, then maybe do two layers of the lemon bit so you can get some more ice and lemons in it.
The only problem is that then they can float to the sides, which would ruin the dice :(
The other benefit of pouring the "lemonade" part first (aside from the correct surface tension direction) is that the inclusions can float and break the surface of the lemonade as real ice and lemons do, but also maybe be partially submerged and therefore stuck down without glue at all. You could maybe consider curing a drop of the resin first on top of the inclusions without putting them in the dice, to weigh them down into the resin within the dice later. LOVE your stuff, and some day when I have a living space that is large enough to section part off for projects and ventilate properly I want to follow some of your experiments!
Beautiful! I think that lighter yellow for the numbers really helped to tie the whole scheme together!
To what you mentioned about pouring the yellow "lemonade" section first, it sounds like that could also fix your floating ice issue. As the fimo slices and silicon would sit/float atop the yellow section and then be cured within the first pour. Then just pour the clear part atop that. Either way, these dice look wonderful, always a pleasure to see your videos~
Edit: Oops! Just saw some others had the same idea, haha such is the way of the internet
The white from the superglue is usually acrylic that was in vapor form (along with the solvent) and then settled after the solvent evaporated. You can usually avoid most of it If you keep just a little bit of air moving over the surface while it cures.
a whole set of mixed citrus fruit would be to die for - could do a sort of ombre fade from yellow to red/pink, with the lemons, oranges, and grapefruit slices all scattered throughout.
for making balanced dice with more ice, what about using a second resin cast that’s opaque white, maybe with liquid glitter made from the part that washed off, with a little regular liquid glitter too for some sparkle. maybe one layer that’s more opaque that you paint on the walls of the mold, plus some broken up bits to look like cracks in the ice, and a more transparent part that fills it up. or maybe just do that for the whole dice and make them look like ice cubes
Ooooo now we can do a whole line up of juices and have a juice party, or a fruit party… adventure of the produce!
I was just rewatching the candy dice episode! I love your videos!
Perfect timing! Thanks Angeal, I really appreciate that :)
@@Rybonator For easier fake ice that can stick better if you can find broken safety glass it looks pretty similar to ice once in resin and you can try and use UV resin instead of superglue.
Those fruit slice thingies are made of polymer clay, an oven bake clay. They are made the same way old fashioned candy is where you roll a log with patterns since slice after bake.
You could pour a thin middle layer of resin to hold the silicone in. It's okay if it floats, because the set resin will hold it down anyway, and you'll still have more resin to cover it with in the final layer
you could use the silicone's preference to float to accomplish their placement without glue or any kind of adhesive. just add them on top of the first layer of resin before you put them in the pressure pot.
I would suggest trying Smooth-On SIL-Poxy Silicone Adhesive. I have only used it to glue silicone to silicone but it is supposed to also allow you to glue silicone to other things.
when you pressure cast your dice in multiple parts like this design do you ever get a seem line with your dice? and if so does sanding fix that?
Yes I do get that - The main way to stop that is to cast it while the first layer is still in a jelly like consistency (maybe an hour after the mixing stage is done). This will help some of the new resin blend with the old :) But it's a tricky dance not to reintroduce bubbles
@@Rybonator i will try this out! thanks!
I have a suggestion for the holding of the foam bits and silicone. If you want to do it the method that you did in the video you could simply use UV resin to hold it down you could even color it the way you would color the lemonade portion. Another option is to do the reverse do the lemonade first and simply drop the bits in when the resin is slightly cured and solid enough to hold the bits from falling completely through but it sinking into the yellow resin might make it look more realistic and warp it like the clear resin did
Honestly, I think the white residue on the ice bits makes it look even more like ice. Either way, these dice look amazing and it makes me wanna try it for myself.
The lemons are made of polymer clay. It’s a really cool process where you wrap and rewrap the colored clay shapes until they look like a lemon slice. These start out about the size of a quarter then are rolled down and cut into slices that can be placed into dice. Foam would have had a much different reaction in the pressure pot. Just FYI, from one artist to another.😉
you could try rubber cement for a slightly tacky glue/stuff that should dry clear-ish, not entirely sure how clear. if you really want to stick things together brush both sides and let it dry a bit then stick them together, it bonds more somehow but you can't really move it at all so get it right the first time.
Rybonator, you get an extra thumbs up for the Bob Ross shout out.....who do NOT like watching Bob Ross paint....so peaceful, so tranquil, great way to unwind at the end of a stressful day at school or work
This was a really fun project! I like the ideaof pouring the lemonade part first next time - maybe you wouldn't even need super glue? You could float the foam and silicone on the drink part and it might even look better if the "ice" dips down into the yellow AND up into the clear.
You could try telesis? It's a glue sometimes used to glue on silicone prosthetics.
Oh I haven't! I didn't know that existed :D I'll give it a shot! Thanks Darcs!
These came out great!
I would think that you could use a bit of UV resin rather than the super glue to hold the inclusions down.
That's a perfect plan! I should have thought of that :D Thanks Karai
This would be a really cool project for the solid glass ice thing that you've been doing. Make the insert the clear yellow and outside clear to make it look like a glass of lemonade
I think your best bet for securing the silicone pieces would be a thin layer of resin. Just enough to coat everything, but not enough to let it float. The downside of course is that it adds and extra day to the process while waiting for it to cure.
Dang it why must all the good videos come out while I’m at work. I’m certain I will enjoy this when I get the time to watch it later so I’m just going to like it now
Edit:
I did indeed enjoy it. Also oh goodness are we going to get a Tyler Durden style reveal with the Skillshare guy now? Can’t wait for the continuing saga. The dice look amazing by the way. As far as a D&D monster goes, maybe this is too involved but it might be cool to try a chromatic dragon set. Something like the infinity stone set except each die can be inspired by a different chromatic dragon. If you include the brown (desert/sand) and purple (psychic) along with the standard 5 chromatics you’d get a full set of 7
You could stick the silicone/lemons in your resin while it's tacky so then when it cures it won't move and when you pour your next layer of resin it won't go anywhere as it's in the other layer as it cured
Hi Rybonator, I love the subtle sparkle these dice have! Also, what kind of air compressor are you using for your pressure pot?
I use a Central Pneumatic 100psi system. It's loud as heck but pretty darn cheap :)
If the lemons and silikon cubes flows up, you can drop them on top in the first layer after half time of curing. So you don´t need any glue.
Love your dice ideas and can't wait for the ice dice. I started researching how to make my own for my dnd group for Christmas and i can't wait to start!
You could make small molds that would hold your inserts. After they cure you could put them into the dice mold and not worry about them floating and they would have more of a 3d layout in the dice because you could put in multiple in different orientations. It's just an idea, I've never tried it...
How refreshingly sweet they look! I really need to start making dice again!
Those look and sound really good. If the super glue works like the Loctite I use with my miniatures you can use a tooth pick to apply the glue so that you don't get extra glue. I know too much glue has been the cause of some of my failures as it will either alter color or cause a foggy texture on things.
You should make some slime cube dice for Halloween. Have little bits of adventures floating in them.
OH! AND THE PLOT THICKENS!!
Also Coke dice would be nice to use this ice technic too...
Also Also, DOUBLE NAT 20 BABYYYY!
Woooo, they look suuuuper cool!!!! (Haha, a cool lemonade). I was playing Divinity original sin, which I think might be based on DnD, and as always using a wizard. But they are like, super focused on water/ice skills!! So, I'm just imagining this fake ice to make frost wizards dice, that could be awesome!
I really enjoy your work, keep it up!! 💜💜
I think the white glue actually makes the ice stand out more! and it kinda looks like partially melted ice that's kind of opaque and kind of clear
@Rybonator the little fruit slices are made of bakeable clays, like sculpey or fimo. they make canes and roll them out to the desired size and then slice them really thin and bake them. I love this idea. if you end up making strawberry lemonade in the future, definitely share!
7:13 nice
I actually had to google if 69° F is a normal room temperature, or if you were sweating / freezing just for the bit :D
For an alternative to super glue, have a test using UV curing resin - I use it to hold parts in place for Resin filled pen blanks
You can actually buy fake ice on Amazon, they have different sizes but look up ice vase filler and get the small size. Also the lemon pieces are polymer clay. Love the idea!
I like the superglue cloudiness reminds me of when Ice cubes are super cold and dry on one side.
Not sure if this has been commented yet. But a thought I had. If the silicone is likely to rise to the top, why not just place the pieces where you want while doing the first layer. Then when that resin hardens, it will hold it in place while keeping it “on top”. I guess then you run the risk of sinking, but it might be worth a shot!
Try using clear UV curing resin to secure your small pieces in place instead of superglue! Not sure how they mix or if it would hold, but it’s worth a shot!
Fruit punch dice! :D
And I wonder if one could make ice cubes out of leftover resin bits...
These are so cool!!!! Not only a really fun idea but it’s a technique that doesn’t seem too intimidating to me which is tempting me to try it!!!
I’m wondering for the holidays if hot chocolate dice could be possible 🤔
Also, more lore for the skill share universe!!!!!! We’ll have to tune in next time for more!!!
Oooohh my goodness, these look so cool!!! I just adore lemon-themed anything 😄
I'd love to see your take on the strawberry lemonade dice as well, if you're thinking about making them!
I also think these ones would have looked super cute if they'd been inked in pink (any shade, from pastel to a deep fuchsia); yellow and pink is just such a lovely color combo--but maybe that's just the strawberry-lemonade-lover in me talking again 😆
Oh my god I'm doing a scotch with ice themed set for my forever DM friend for Christmas. I normally make D6 sets for wargaming, this will be my first RPG set!
The skill share Lore just gets more and more intense every upload
I really like this design. Maybe not so much spooky season but I still love it💕
Man you could do a whole cocktail dice series, now that you've found a good fake ice technique! I don't drink, but there are some incredible looking cocktails out there that would look pretty awesome in dice form XD Might be a little tedious to make, though.
You might be able to use a UV curing resin as a glue to lock down your add-ins. Or my sister said why not put the add-ins in the base layer and let them float, then they'd be captured by the first later and the second layer could go on easily.
You could put the silicone in with the first pour, or use UV resin and just glob it on the silicone, then hit it in the mold.
I think this is my new favorite set of Rybo-Dice 🍋
Rybonator: self proclaimed blueberry lemonade fanatic
I knew I followed you for a good reason
I would love to see a continuation of this food themed dice.
I know this is mostly a resin channel but have you ever thought about making a video of other methods of making dice? Metal casting or cutting stone? Great video as always!
If you pored the yellow first then you might be able to just float the silicone and lemons in it during the first cure and not need to deal with glue, but you would need to worry about them going to the sides of the molds
Put the lemon slices on top of the first pour before putting it in the pressurepot, so when it cures they are stuck in place