Modular Dice Tower - Gears

What a brilliant idea. In my excited haste to get it and assemble it I totally missed a pretty neat idea to add even more flair. Painting/staining parts.

It went to together with some medium level encouragement. Having a hobby knife is key. As mentioned in other reviews, getting the axles of the gear and meter in place do to one shorter rod was not easy, but It will sit in place with some adjustment. The plexiglass piece secures everything in place. Even with modification, Clamps were helpful to get everything to fit properly

Wanted to build it left sided. Used a video as a guide. Built it right sided.

And put the face plate on upside down.

Oh well, such is life

Every so mildly challenging , but fun to assemble set.

Let me start by noting that I have bought all of the module pieces. I wanted 2 3 module towers so I have 2 topes and 2 bottoms and 1 of each of the tower pieces. I have put all of the rest of the modules together and they work great, but not this one. There are so many pieces to this tower module. If you are lucky and everything fits together great. But what happened to me is that the outer box fits too snuggly for the inner box and the plexiglass to go in together. So after all my work which including staining, sanding, and lacquering. As I was delicately tapping the plexiglass into the shell, the bindings gave and the thing fell apart. There are too many variables and so when you get a set that is too tight, You won't know till the whole thing is together and falling apart in your hands.

The build wasn't too bad. I shaved each tab a little to ease assembly.

Wooden dice can sometimes sit in the gear and won't turn it. Standard plastic dice work great.

It's an added bonus to your die rolls when they give the gear a good spin.

I got this a year and a half ago and have been using this in 2-4 sessions week since. It's definitely tricky to assemble, especially for someone who hasn't done something before, but it came out pretty nice - especially after taking the time to stain & paint it. The only downside I can see is that at least once or twice a session, a die (particularly bigger ones) will get stuck on the 'needle' stick and we'll have to reach inside and poke it out. Other than that, a lot of fun to use.

I have two dice towers I have created using this modular system. I have a base + plinko + loader and a base + gears + loader. Of the two, I prefer the plinko tower. See my review of that module. The problems with the gear tumbler are numerous but very minor. Each of them would be nothing at all; together, they take a 5th star off this review. The issues I have are:

* When you have the loader just above this and you load from the side compartment, the dice can miss the main gear all together. Sort of defeats the purpose.
* The gauge dial that moves when the dice hit it can capture dice and not release them into the final stage of the tumbler.
* The small holes used for some of the pieces to go onto the dowels are very thin. I had one crack slightly, but I was able to glue it into place so it is fine now.
* The inner box final assembly bear to get together. At times you have nowhere you can place any pressure to get the joints to go together as the only points where it can happen are thin areas with a lot of decoration.
* The instructions for the right-side gear are on the left page, and the instructions for the left-side gear are on the right page.
* And so on.

Overall I like it. Just not as much as the plinko, which is sad, since this is the one I was excited about. :(

It was a little harder then I thought, but I got it done and it's really neat!

Kit shipped very quickly. The whole thing looks amazing, the only challenge was keeping the axles in place until they were locked in.

Product went together ok, required some surface sanding and light encouraging for some joints. I want to give it a 5 - however, one of the included shafts is shorter than the other by about 1/4" and does not stay put inside the tumbler, will have to purchase a new dowel to get it to work right. Painted the gears with metallic paint, and the exterior a blend of blues to match the loader and tray, looks fantastic. Can't wait to get the new dowel so we can use it.

It looks very nice and the wheel rotates great with normal size dices. But its not easy to assemble, if you dont have experience.

Can't wait to get this together. It looks epic but I plan on staining the wood for an added effect when it moves.

This tower has a lot of pieces but it really isn't that hard to put together. I painted the whole things in metallic paint (with a black primer basecoat) and it looks great. Now saying that, there were some issues that I ran into. One of the dowels that acts as an axle was significantly shorter than the other. I don't know if this is by design or if it was accidental but I ended up using it in the smaller meter on the bottom and it made assembling it a little more difficult as it kept falling out. The plexiglass seems to hold it in on final assembly and I haven't had it fall out since. I think I got unlucky as well as one of the screw-shaped wood pieces and part of the bell shaped piece on the meter disintegrated when I popped it out of the plate and I ended up having to puzzle them back together with wood glue and sand them smooth. I also catastrophically snapped the decorative back piece in half when trying to shove it into the side panel but I take the blame on this one as I was being a little rough and should have realized such a thin part wouldn't be able to stand much force. Luckily, none of that is visible and the solid back panel gave enough support to repair the decorative panel and everything still looks good. Overall I recommend this tower for older crafters but I think children would find putting it together to be a challenge.

Put this one together tonight. Absolutely love it!!! I was skeptical at first due to all of the pieces but went together like a breeze!!!!