So the other week I happened to see an acrylic photo cube at my bank and thought of turning one into a deck box. I'm happy enough with my results that I'd figure I'll share it. In total it cost me about $11.50, but some of the supplies were freebies like glue and magnets for me. It took me about a week to figure out everything.
The process was to just find the photo cube, which was simple enough. I super glued extra magnets and iron plates from window blinds to the inside. For the paint, which was all spray paint, I started with a blue base coat. I used masking tape to make the patterns. I just traced the Izzet symbol and cut it out with an exacto knife. For the lightning I just ripped the masking tape into shapes that felt good enough. I gave the blue on the sides a very fine dusty of white. When I was done with the masking tape, I put on the red coating. The final coating was just a matted clear coating to help seal the paint.
There's some things I'm unhappy with, but nothing bad enough that I wouldn't use it.
I found out after buying the cube the inside of the standard 4"x4" could be smaller based on how they made acrylic. In my case the sides fold in to help the cube stay together normally. This makes the cards bend a good bit near the edges when sheeved. The simple solution I found was to make a little triangle platform so the cards rest at an angle to have more resting distance.
The paint took forever to dry. If I was to do it again, I would hang it up so I could spray paint all 6 sides at one time. I would also try to layer it 4 times instead of the 2 I did. 2 seems like it was still to heavy to dry perfectly in the 24 hours.
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The process was to just find the photo cube, which was simple enough. I super glued extra magnets and iron plates from window blinds to the inside. For the paint, which was all spray paint, I started with a blue base coat. I used masking tape to make the patterns. I just traced the Izzet symbol and cut it out with an exacto knife. For the lightning I just ripped the masking tape into shapes that felt good enough. I gave the blue on the sides a very fine dusty of white. When I was done with the masking tape, I put on the red coating. The final coating was just a matted clear coating to help seal the paint.
There's some things I'm unhappy with, but nothing bad enough that I wouldn't use it.
I found out after buying the cube the inside of the standard 4"x4" could be smaller based on how they made acrylic. In my case the sides fold in to help the cube stay together normally. This makes the cards bend a good bit near the edges when sheeved. The simple solution I found was to make a little triangle platform so the cards rest at an angle to have more resting distance.
The paint took forever to dry. If I was to do it again, I would hang it up so I could spray paint all 6 sides at one time. I would also try to layer it 4 times instead of the 2 I did. 2 seems like it was still to heavy to dry perfectly in the 24 hours.