It was recently my daughter’s birthday, and as she started playing Dungeons & Dragons earlier this year. I thought it would be a good opportunity to make her something a little different for her present. I decided to build her a dice tower and paint up a Halfling miniature to represent her D&D character.
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| The completed dice tower. The blue spider is attached to the lid which can be removed. |
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| The drawbridge is hinged to drop down. |
After looking online for some ideas, I settled on a straightforward castle tower design, complete with a working drawbridge to catch the dice as they tumble through. I was going to use a combination of MDF and cardboard to make the tower.
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| The tower in use. The drawbridge has sides to keep the dice from escaping across the table. |
The sloping shelves inside the tower, which break the dice’s fall as they travel through, were made from some leftover upholstery foam I had from a previous project. I cut the foam into triangles, covered them with grey felt, and glued them into position. The reason for this approach was that my daughter did not want a noisy dice tower. I also covered the inside surface of the drawbridge with felt to help minimise any noise.
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| A closeup of the painted halfling. |
Before gluing the foam shelves in place, I decorated the tower with various bits and pieces from my bits box to give it a little more character and colour.
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