July 1, 2025
Description
This Pachinko-style tower is open in front but does not need a cover glass: the angled pins and walls keep the dice from falling backward. The included slide-on cover seals the tower for dice storage/transport and acts as a tray for the dice to land in.
A large handful of dice can be dropped in all at once (i.e. 10D6 easily) and make a very nice clattering sound as they drop. Designed to not let any dice stick or fall through without hitting a pin. (But if a die does stick, just poke it through the openings between the “planks.”
Fuzzy skin inside tower helps ensure dice don't slide but rather roll. Fuzzy skin and stone texture outside give a good grip for opening and closing cover.
The motif is a broken stone wall (such as a castle wall) with wooden planks over the break.
Prints vertically with some minor supports on the bottom edge. Portrayed model was printed at 0.25mm layer height using a 0.4mm HF nozzle on a Core One and took 250 grams of PLA and about 6 hours to print.
The OpenSCAD file includes larger versions of the tower/case (defined in the “paramsets” variable and selected by the “psel” variable) but I haven't tested them.
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — Share Alike