Skull Dice Refurbishing

[cynthialee]

I stand by my solution:

buy new dice.

[underling]

What do people use to recolor the black when it kind of gets rubbed away? Sharpie?
Testor's Enamel paint? what???

I'm getting to this discussion extremely after the fact, but thought I'd throw in my solution.
I used a fine point black felt tip pen I got from a Hobby Lobby craft store.
After I re-inked the dice, I then used clear finger nail polish to seal them.
They work great, and have a nice subtle gloss to them.
Kevin

[knightkrawler]

Oh, please, no gloss on my dice...


I have 24 good-looking combat dice, all originals.
Before anyone asks, no they're not expensive.

They are, if you bid on auctions on eBay for 4 of them... 7-12€
But I often look for mixed HeroQuest lot leftovers on ebay, and mostly, there they are in the pictures:
in a package together with another 6 orcs, 4 BattleMasters cards, 3 Warhammer bits, 2 HQ bookcases, 2 goblins, and 12 open doors...
You get the idea.
Cheapest way to get them.

[Daedalus]

I have 24 good-looking combat dice, all originals.
Before anyone asks, no they're not expensive.

They are, if you bid on auctions on eBay for 4 of them... 7-12€
But I often look for mixed HeroQuest lot leftovers on ebay, and mostly, there they are in the pictures:
in a package together with another 6 orcs, 4 BattleMasters cards, 3 Warhammer bits, 2 HQ bookcases, 2 goblins, and 12 open doors...
You get the idea.
Cheapest way to get them.

Great advice. I may have to try that, as I also need new spell cards as well as new dice.

[knightkrawler]

In Germany, it's really easy to get these lots.
HeroQuest was BIG here.

[knightkrawler]

And the downside with this method:
you have a drawer full of minis and (in Germany) BattleMasters parts you don't need.
So you sell a lot to make the dice even more worth the money.
And so on.
Until everybody owns exactly the parts he needs and wants.
And then, HeroQuest 2.0 is published by legolasbaker.games...

[Leander]

Some of my 12 dice aren't in good condition anymore. Maybe a black marker used to label DVDs works.

[knightkrawler]

Works for some time.
Or with sealing.

[jkwhite]

I made stickers out of skulls and the two type of shields and stuck them on a regular 6 sided dice. I made a bunch so every one playing could have some. They work pretty well and the stickers have not fallen off yet.

[el_flesh]

Well the black acrylic seems to be holding up fine so far.