Decorating a Skull - Dice Tower for DnD & Zombicide

Decorating a skull for a game of Zombicide Black Plague.
The first in a set of Zombicide related builds.
Thingiverse
Skull dice tower - www.thingiverse.com/thing:466...
Mushrooms/snails - www.thingiverse.com/pellinor1...
frog - www.thingiverse.com/thing:18479
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Chapters
00:00 The Decayed Dice Tower
00:31 3D Print, Prime and Prep
01:15 Basing the build
01:57 Fixing Print Lines with UV Resin
02:40 Painting the Skull
03:33 Painting the Base
04:20 Bringing the Base to Life
06:35 Adding Little Details
08:08 Adding More Life
09:20 Painting the Frog
09:49 Painting a Snail
10:40 Cleaning Up the Base
11:22 The Skull Dice Tower
12:02 Zombicide Terrain Teaser
my Print settings:
layer height: 0.2
wall thickness: 0.8
wall line count: 2
Top/ Bottom thickness: 0.8
top layers: 4
bottom layers: 4
Infill density 10.0
infill pattern: grid
print temp: 205
build plate temp: 60
print speed: 70mms
enable retraction: yes
retraction distance: 6.0
no supports
build plate adhesion: brim

[@emmalinthorne9234]

Sebastian you are a very clever boy! Thankyou for our amazing dice tower 😍😍 you are so talented 👍🙏

[@SebMakesStuff]

well of course, Its gotta keep up with the high standard of your game set ups!

[@MrDanielMikos]

This is an unbelievable video, I'm blown away and I cant wait for you to get the views that you deserve. thank you!

[@SebMakesStuff]

You're too kind! Thanks mate

[@ChimeraWargaming]

Thanks for sharing your work

[@SebMakesStuff]

😊👍

[@theknightsofgimmly9457]

Cool build, i once found a Plastik skull on Amazon amd turned it into a Altar for the blood god

[@SebMakesStuff]

They have so many uses! Ive recently used this same model to make into terrain for the tabletop

[@MrBrassGears]

Since this STL file first popped up a few months ago Ive contemplated printing this repeatedly. I think this video has inspired me enough to finally do so. Keep up the good work because you just earned yourself a new subscriber!

[@SebMakesStuff]

Awesome! Welcome to my madness It's definitely a cool build to have on the table!

[@m.mulder8864]

Very awesome looking. I really appreciate the thingiverse links and specific mentions of the paints you use.

[@SebMakesStuff]

Cheers :) ill always share as much as I can, I want to encourage as many of you out there to give these builds a go as possible!

[@xiliati]

great build, love hearing the thought that goes into the design process

[@SebMakesStuff]

Thanks 😊 I'm finally getting confident talking to the microphone haha

[@lobbinskij]

Impressed that you managed to hide the print lines!

[@SebMakesStuff]

Hahaha cheers. It definitely took some work

[@grimmtales503]

This is your most-viewed, yes? Would you try it with LEDs? Or this inside / atop / part of a wizard's tower? As usual, love the frog - your deathly skull is a symbol of life everlasting = )

[@SebMakesStuff]

Actually my most viewed is my Crystal Trees. This is the close second. There is a version of this model in thibgiverse that has been hollowed out to add LEDs that I have seen since making this build which is definitely something that would be an awesome addition! Im also using a slightly faulty print of this in one of my coming up builds as a paice of terrain, keep an eye out for my dead primordial remains scatter terrain

[@grimmtales503]

@@SebMakesStuff Your chrystal trees are the bomb. I saw another KZbinr that did them after you and she did NOT give you credit (legally i am not allowed to slap her down, sorry). I will keep an eye out for your dead primordial remains and if i lose that eye i will have to bill you for the marble-glass replacement.

[@SebMakesStuff]

Haha I'm sure she came about it in her own way. And if not I'm just happy to have inspired something cool amongst our crafting community. I'll have to look out for that video tho, I love to see what others come up with from my ideas. Haha I can print you a replacement eye, specially painted just for you

[@photogfrank2146]

Wow, Seb! You have outdone yourself! This is fantastic! Watching this I couldn't help thinking how this could happen to someone and in life they would never think of it happening to them! Knarley! Have you started watching Obi-Wan Kenobi? I bet you have and I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple weeks you don't have a diorama inspired by the show! Never stop making stuff Seb because you just keep getting better and better! lol

[@SebMakesStuff]

Ohh yer watched obiwan the moment it released. And yer haha I feel like I'll have to pick something to make from it for sure!

[@russ5838]

Found you by accident now subbed, liked and will defo sharing your channel keep up the good work m8ty.

[@SebMakesStuff]

Legend! welcome to the madness that is my hobbying :)

[@jeremycatches9766]

I would do the uv resin repairs and the sanding of the layer lanes and then do the primer only when that was finished... It turned out great though. :)

[@SebMakesStuff]

Yer that would have been the best approach for sure. This was kind of a figure it out as I go kinda job. But you're dead on for the best order of operations

[@BPCustomCreations]

That escalated! 😂 Great job 👍 I love the mushrooms

[@SebMakesStuff]

They are becoming a must for any of my builds! :) cheers

[@BPCustomCreations]

@@SebMakesStuff I'll have to go print some off too. I made some from scratch on my last build but the different shapes in the stls are cool

[@SebMakesStuff]

Yer I used to make some with green stuff, but these ones are too good for the fact they are free. And more time to spend on other parts of the build

[@FixitFingers]

Watching while sitting and waiting for the resin to cure on my own tower build. I think I've been working on it for 6 months now.... It won't look at cool as this. 😅

[@SebMakesStuff]

What kind of tower are you working on? Waiting for things to set is the bane of my crafting life!!!!

[@dinnerwithdan5356]

Such a criminally under-watched channel! I'm really getting interested in trying out this as a new hobby. Has anyone made a guide for essential equipment to get started with?

[@SebMakesStuff]

Thank you 😁 Welcome to the Hobbying world! If you're talking about 3d printing. Check out danny at "3d printed tabletop" He has some great intros to the 3 printing world. If you're thinking more about the painting and decoration side then there are a few Chanel's out there like "Black Magic Craft", "Nerdforge" and "Real Terrain Hobbies" that do an amazing job. Really to start out all you need is a set of paints, some glue and dirt. Then slowly build up your other supplies as particular builds call for it or a good Amazon deal catches your eye

[@nancileslie1431]

What contrast paint color did you use on the skull?? This turned out AMAZING!!!

[@SebMakesStuff]

It's a mix of about 50/50 skeleton horde and contrast medium. Thanks 😁

[@richarddreadskull8427]

Hi, love the videos, very imaginative and original. I watched this video with my son and he wants to do this as a joint project (a teen wanting to do something with their dad is so rare) so would you mind letting me know your 3d printer settings. I have a lot of trouble getting longer prints to work and would like to minimize the failure rate especially as you said that it is a 24 hour print. Keep coming with the great ideas, I'm making a wizard tower from juice bottles and can't help but wonder how you doing the same would turn out. Thanks

[@SebMakesStuff]

Thanks mate, really appreciate it. Also makes my day to know it's encouraging you guys to work on a project together 😊 My setting were 0.8 wall thickness, 10% grid infill, printing at 205° nozel temp and 55° bed temp. At a speed of 70mm/s. It had a little bit of stringing but luckily came out nice enough on the first attempt. Would love to see your end result once you guys are done. And I'll have to add the soda bottle tower to my list of builds, I'm just starting to run out of space for all my builds haha

[@SebMakesStuff]

Oh and I used pla+

[@richarddreadskull8427]

@@SebMakesStuff Hi Seb, My Ender3 pro using cura says this is a 82 hour print. In your video you say 24 hours. Did you change size/supports/anything that you haven't listed in the settings that you listed please?

[@SebMakesStuff]

interesting, that's a looong print time. Ive played around with my print settings a lot over the last year so I'm not 100% sure what changes ive made. Ill give you my full settings tho, I printed him again yesterday with these settings and it came out in about 24 hours again. Hopefully this helps layer height: 0.2 wall thickness: 0.8 wall line count: 2 Top/ Bottom thickness: 0.8 top layers: 4 bottom layers: 4 Infill density 10.0 infill pattern: grid print temp: 205 build plate temp: 60 print speed: 70mms enable retraction: yes retraction distance: 6.0 no supports build plate adhesion: brim

[@richarddreadskull8427]

@@SebMakesStuff Sorry that it's taken so long to reply, I redid the settings and if I print at 80% then I can get the print time down to 24 hours and 42 mins which is way more acceptable. I am going to buy the same filament as you so waiting for that to come, I'll let you know what happens. In the mean time I think I'll try a tiny version for mini 10mm dice to start with. Thx again