Dice cups

[spacedog]

One is a dragon lying on a pile gold, and the other is a chaplain from warhammer 40K. Getting the top and bottom to match in size is important so the fit is tight and it won't fall off. That, and having the right number of holes on the circles to match the sides, so the stitching is even. These were fun and fairly easy to make. The small bits of color were added at the end with acrylic, hobby store paint.

[Ragingstallion]

looks good, been needing to make some of these myself.

[kiwican]

Nice! How did you work out the holes to match?

[spacedog]

2 hours ago, Ragingstallion said:

looks good, been needing to make some of these myself.

Thanks.

 

13 minutes ago, kiwican said:

Nice! How did you work out the holes to match?

Thank you. I kind of did it on the fly. The dragon cup was just over eight inches long by three and a half high, and I put holes along the bottom about a quarter of an inch apart. Then I just counted the holes and put that many in the disc that was the bottom. Ha. It took a try or two to space those out by hand before I punched them. The stitching on the body of the cup took a little planning ahead, something I don't do much of, because the cup is too skinny to fit my hand inside. I ended up loosely threading it all and pulling it tight like a shoe.

The 40K cup is shorter and slightly bigger around. The lid has sixty holes around the outside and only thirty on the disc, just to get the stitching to look the way it does.

Here are the sketches since I forgot to take pictures of the leather while it was flat.

 

[kiwican]

Very nice. Thanks for the input! 

[spacedog]

I'm working on a third one. The transition from dark to light is making it a bit challenging.

 

[Tugadude]

Thanks for sharing.  If you get the chance, I'd like to see the interior of the cups along with the seam on the outside.  Curious is you used a baseball stitch or what.

 

thanks!

[spacedog]

3 hours ago, Tugadude said:

Thanks for sharing.  If you get the chance, I'd like to see the interior of the cups along with the seam on the outside.  Curious is you used a baseball stitch or what.

 

thanks!

No problem. Well, except for my lack of photography skills. Here are the outside seams.

 

Here is the inside.

 

[spacedog]

Here is the last dice cup. I messed up the stitching a bit, but on the whole it turned out okay.

 

[Tugadude]

Thanks, I always like to see all of the little details.  Great job on those.