Gerry Can Show You The Basics Of Crayons
March 26, 2020 by avernos
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I wonder: if you have *DF and you use a bright pigment powder. Wouldn’t that be much easier? Sprinkle and rub in the pigment, add a drop of alcohol to get it to set and done? Or just leave the alcohol and cover with spray varnish? Sadly I have no *DF at home to test that theory on.
easier maybe, but not as durable and easier to repair if you need to
Next week: Hints and tips of how to complete those devilish hard dot to dot books
Only if someone is sneaky and sabotages the book by tippexing out all the numbers……or you buy the “Chaos” edition (where the numbers have been mixed up).
I would have been trying to paint it and swearing every time I coloured outside the line. This looks a less sweary and better looking option!
thanks for the heating up the wax tip! that’s what i needed to know for some of my malifaux acrylic tokens from Art of War… excellent stuff!!
for acrylic you can melt the crayon and jam it in it’s a safer way of doing it, as you can melt or bubble the plastic if you’re not careful
one and only
i miss you Gerry
hope you and yours are keeping well mate
all good, safe and sound.
I think you just gave me an idea for a production line….I mean fun family activity for the next time I see my brothers kids
remember it’s not a child sweatshop if you don’t pay them 😀
Sound advice ?
that looks great Gerry could candle wax stop the staining.
It should. I think a gloss varnish on it first would do the same thing.
Staying in the lines of a good idea.
Back in 1983 my first set of D&D dice came with a crayon to color in the numbers like this.
Kids today and their dice with visible numbers! Bah!
Seriously though, I found with dice the wax can start to degrade over time and start to fall out. For dice I’d use a sharpie permanent marker. They come in many colors and you can get them with pretty small points.
The crayon does look good on the tokens and templates. I think it will hold up well on items that don’t get tossed and bounced around like dice do.
great tip there Gerry. I was thinking of using acrilic paint pens. but this will be much cheaper
that is where I learned it from, those cheap red plasticy polyhedrals and a yellow crayon. I don’t mind the longetivity on the dice as they are prototypes, I have gold and silver paint pens that flow very well and may do a similar job
Thats a great trick there Uncle Gerry
Nice one!
Wow! I never realised how bendy Gerry’s thumbs are!
This is brilliant. But then as the video went on, it roused distant memories. I’m now convinced that the D&D Beginners box (the Red one) shipped with polyhedral dice inside as well as a white crayon. You then had to colour the numbers in with the crayon. Am I dreaming this or does anyone else remember this?
Yup if you scroll up you’ll see just that