[quote=""Deimos""]Knew it, knew it, KNEW IT!
I knew you had something like that in mind quite some time ago, soooo....
I drew up the design that is on the top of the plinth after I got my sphere....orb.....thing.
Your lighted plexiglass "Durin's Door" gave me the idea: get a piece of black plexiglass and etch the plinth design into it, along with cutting the round hole for the sphere and then the outside shape as well.
For the record, a good size piece of black plexiglass ain't cheap.
N2, let me know what you come up with for the surface design .
I watched the Orthanc Palantir sequence over and over until I was pretty sure I nailed the pattern down.
It basically turned out to be (as I saw it) three offset squares and a few extra lines drawn in.
But I'm curious as to what you see it as.[/quote]
Here is a picture of my Sideshow/Weta statue and it shows it pretty well. I was going to make it about 4 inches tall and cut out the outside areas and put in the slanted parts as well. Would actually make a rather large display.
I think your idea of black plexi could work but, maybe too shinny as well as hard to get the straight lines needed. I was going to just use MDF and slightly texture and paint it.
As with Val, if anyone finds one for a decent price let me know too.