back lit poster

goingganzo

any one here have a lighted movie poster frame? i am bulding one and dont know if i should use 3 or 4 florsents in it i bult the fraim with 1X4 pine and in the prosses of making the door out of 1X2 with the inside rounded over the over-all size is 29and 1/2 by 42 and 1/2 by 4and 1/4 i am going to stain it to matck my 800 i figuer it will cost about 100 dollars by the end that is a saveings of 200+ if i bought one

madmax

I would think using a good diffuser (like those in dropped ceilings) between the lights and poster would be more important than the number of bulbs. Another cool idea I thought about once was to have a small space behind a poster painted with a flourescent glow paint with a black light shining on it to light up the poster. Yea, I need to get a life.
madmax

goingganzo

i will have to get some black lites for my fraim i got ot put toghtr with clear plexy but want the white stuff i have disneys alantis teaser movie poster and it looks awsome it makes the shadow look like they are being thrown it is nice i will put some pics when i get my film prossed my digital camer broke on me

goingganzo

all you need to buld one is a tabble saw a mighter saw i first took a roughter with a round over bit to the 1X2 pine then i cut out the fraim with the mighter saw after that i notched the inside of the fraim pieces so i can have something to keep the plexi in place after that i glued and stapled the fraim toghter next o bult the box i just made a lap joint for the sides and i cut a grove in the iX4 sides 1/8 oof a inch from the back to hold the backer bord then i cut my backer bord to size i nailed and glued the box togher but made shure to put in the back befor putting on the back then i took apart the 2 shop lights i bought they were alot cheaper than buying the ballast and the ends 2 shop lights for 15 vs 40 for buying the parts. all i did was extend 2 of the wores and cut off 2 leads of the other light used them to extend the leads put the 2 whites and the 2 blacks to each other then conect them to cordthat is as far as i got i am thinking of using a magnetic lock to keep the the front closed but dhave to go shoping for my hindiges