Making a Formboard Dice Tower

Step 5 Add the tower back and front

Now that the tower sides and dice steps have been put together, the hard work has been done. Now it's just adding the rectangles that we have left.

First, the tower back. As shown in the picture, it goes in the back of the tower from top to bottom. It should lay on the edges of the dice steps to just fit inside the left and right tower sides.

If it's uneven in length to the tower sides, you want the bottom edge to line up. The top edge will just be wherever it winds up.

Put it on the back of the tower, then do the general procedure of gluing and toothpickin'.

Poke holes into it with pushpins. Because of the length, I used four holes per side.
Cut toothpicks in half
Remove pushpins, add glue to the sides and the edge of the tower back.
Put back in place
Push toothpicks into holes punched by the pushpins
Clip off ends of the toothpicks
Push any little bit of the toothpicks sticking out flat with the sides, using something wide and flat to level it out.

Now that the back's done, it's time for the front.

Line up the top edge with the top of the tower sides. Start the entire glue and toothpick routine again like the back part, except I only did three holes per side.

Once this is done, you actually now have a functional dice tower. Try it out and see the magic!

OK, enough of that. Time to finish the basic construction.