ChipperMarten
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Hello all,
I must first confess that I kind of like the Durango chips. I will agree on a lot of the points that were made on the forum: the inlay is plain and screams ‘wait, I have to submit inlays tomorrow?’, and some of the edge spots are not my favorite. However, I think that the color palette overall is really pleasing to the eye, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t my favorite house mold as far as feel is concerned. While I am still saving up to get my ECHO set, the new Tina web molds have me wanting a micro-stakes cash set, and I figured I’d see if I can apply a little bit of redesign to the Durango set to make it a little bit more pleasing.
Initially I just redesigned the chips outright so I had something to start with. While playing around with what to call the fantasy casino in my head, I settled on ‘FRACTAL’ after a fictional tower in a fictional place, which at this point is par for the course as far as my chip designs go. That reminded me of the two Century Casino ‘Snow’ chips I managed to pick up off eBay and how I love them despite breaking all of the design norms that I would usually expect from a ‘good’ chip. So I ended up putting a fair amount of work into drafting snowflakes and adjusting the inlays, and ultimately ended up on something I was somewhat happy with.
Finally, I changed the spot patterns, drew the squiggly lines to make it look like a compressed clay chip, then added some visualization of the web mold and used the chip stacking tool to visualize the set. Currently, I like the set. I’m sure my thoughts will change as they always do (I mean ECHO changed for like a year before what I have now), but I wanted to share this because I like where Durango is coming from, I just think it can be built upon for a really nice set.
I did versions with both the varied inlay color scheme and non-varied. I think the varied inlay color schemes is one of my favorite parts about the current Durango set, even if I don’t like all of the color combinations ($5 should not have yellow inlay, though I haven’t decided what I’d use instead). Additionally, I think that the RHC-sized inlays are what make this set work overall and I might wait until we have a ceramic large-inlay hybrid mold to revisit this design.
I’m curious to hear other’s thoughts on the set. Improvement over the original? Is the general chip color palette doomed to not work? What would you do differently?
I must first confess that I kind of like the Durango chips. I will agree on a lot of the points that were made on the forum: the inlay is plain and screams ‘wait, I have to submit inlays tomorrow?’, and some of the edge spots are not my favorite. However, I think that the color palette overall is really pleasing to the eye, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t my favorite house mold as far as feel is concerned. While I am still saving up to get my ECHO set, the new Tina web molds have me wanting a micro-stakes cash set, and I figured I’d see if I can apply a little bit of redesign to the Durango set to make it a little bit more pleasing.
Initially I just redesigned the chips outright so I had something to start with. While playing around with what to call the fantasy casino in my head, I settled on ‘FRACTAL’ after a fictional tower in a fictional place, which at this point is par for the course as far as my chip designs go. That reminded me of the two Century Casino ‘Snow’ chips I managed to pick up off eBay and how I love them despite breaking all of the design norms that I would usually expect from a ‘good’ chip. So I ended up putting a fair amount of work into drafting snowflakes and adjusting the inlays, and ultimately ended up on something I was somewhat happy with.
Finally, I changed the spot patterns, drew the squiggly lines to make it look like a compressed clay chip, then added some visualization of the web mold and used the chip stacking tool to visualize the set. Currently, I like the set. I’m sure my thoughts will change as they always do (I mean ECHO changed for like a year before what I have now), but I wanted to share this because I like where Durango is coming from, I just think it can be built upon for a really nice set.
I did versions with both the varied inlay color scheme and non-varied. I think the varied inlay color schemes is one of my favorite parts about the current Durango set, even if I don’t like all of the color combinations ($5 should not have yellow inlay, though I haven’t decided what I’d use instead). Additionally, I think that the RHC-sized inlays are what make this set work overall and I might wait until we have a ceramic large-inlay hybrid mold to revisit this design.
I’m curious to hear other’s thoughts on the set. Improvement over the original? Is the general chip color palette doomed to not work? What would you do differently?
