Displaying Superman Crystals
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I'm planning something elaborate that I'll share when I have the details ironed out. However, the first step in mine is buying a big honking clump of quartz crystals. That alone, would look incredibly good as a base for a hydin crystal.
BrianTheSith
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This is one hydin posted in a thread where I was selling the same base. It's actually a tealight candle holder. I'm not sure if Hydin put this together, or someone else did. I was planning on doing about the same with mine, even before I saw the pics (great minds think alike, eh!) but ended up selling them instead. They came from walmart.
I can't find any pics of one of the blasted things on Goggle or eBay, but about 5 years ago, KOOL cigarettes had a motorized display in stores, that had a plastic KOOLs pack on a black base with the two Superman style rings rotating around it (like the hula hoop size ones spinning around Zod and Ursa in the first movie).
I've got one around here someplace that I nagged out of the local liquor store, but I've never got around to converting it.
I'm thinking, pull the fake pack of smokes off there, put a cluster of clear acrylic tubes to hold the crystal on there, maybe a light from the bottom and it would look pretty good!
-Sarge
I've got one around here someplace that I nagged out of the local liquor store, but I've never got around to converting it.
I'm thinking, pull the fake pack of smokes off there, put a cluster of clear acrylic tubes to hold the crystal on there, maybe a light from the bottom and it would look pretty good!
-Sarge
Yea, that one was mine
The candle holder was a christmas only item (still have one or two kicking around here). You probably won't see it again, or at least not for many moons.
The acrylic tubing was something I had laying around anyway from a previous buildup, and it fit the crystal pretty well.
I have my own display setup, but it's in storage now awaiting a move that may come soon.
I may have some teaser pics up of a new way to display it soon though
Chris
I think it looks kinda nifty
Yea, the holes a little bigger than screen used, but I wanted some wiggle room in there and did not want to try and squeeze 2 pieces of crystal together. That is a BIG no no.
The display stand was for the pic only as there is another display one on order for my friend (owner of both the crystal and the cylinder).
Chris
BrianTheSith
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The very base is the candle holder (the part the tube goes into) but like hydin said, you won't find it now. i bought mine on clearance, back in december I think. You could try ebay, but I'm not sure what to search for.
Well then my question is what is that beautiful piece of angled, stepped, quartzy material behind the tealight base?
That is a custom drilled tea light holder. The material is called selenite (think of it as god's version of fiber optic).
I paid way too much for mine (it's awesome though), but you can find similar candle holders on ebay from time to time, as well as lamps and whatnot.
The front is the acrylic/plastic candle holder (one with the crystal/tubing), the selenite is behind it, and there is a custom quartz base to the right hand side that is also a tea light holder, but looks pretty nifty as a base as well
Chris
I paid way too much for mine (it's awesome though), but you can find similar candle holders on ebay from time to time, as well as lamps and whatnot.
The front is the acrylic/plastic candle holder (one with the crystal/tubing), the selenite is behind it, and there is a custom quartz base to the right hand side that is also a tea light holder, but looks pretty nifty as a base as well
Chris
misterfusion
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Here's what I came up with:
The base is from a animated Batman series lawn sprinkler that I got from Target for $6.
The logo is one of a lot of 3 that I got on eBay for less than $10 out the door. They're part of a cape, logo and chain set for the kiddies.
Pulled the guts out of the sprinkler, hit it with some white primer, then Fleck Stone for texture, then more white.
I bought a piece of thick felt with glitter embedded for the top to rest the crystal on and also cut strips to inlay into the recessed areas on the base.
Finished up by wiring the logo over the hole that was left when I removed the hose attachment.
Steve
The base is from a animated Batman series lawn sprinkler that I got from Target for $6.
The logo is one of a lot of 3 that I got on eBay for less than $10 out the door. They're part of a cape, logo and chain set for the kiddies.
Pulled the guts out of the sprinkler, hit it with some white primer, then Fleck Stone for texture, then more white.
I bought a piece of thick felt with glitter embedded for the top to rest the crystal on and also cut strips to inlay into the recessed areas on the base.
Finished up by wiring the logo over the hole that was left when I removed the hose attachment.
Steve
KnightAsylum
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I am the one that bought that candle holder from Brianthesith in the JY, but I am still looking for a tube, and maybe some other crystals to add to the base before I use it. Until I finish that I went for simple and put it in a shadowbox frame (not a Hydin Crystal, one I got off ebay years ago). I just carved the shape out of some foam, and put some fluffy white fabric on it and it holds the Crystal well in the frame (the fluffy fabric was suppose to look a little like snow -it does a little, but not great - my intent was to make it a little more lumpy snow like, but it fits really snug so that didn't really work as planned.) Hopefully one of these days I will finish the new display as it is one of my favorite peices.
Blackwell FX at www.blackwellfx.com has both a cool base and also some affordable acrylic crystal options. They ship really fast and have very good service.
Well, I received my Donner Crystal a week or two ago, and I'm still working on my display base. I'm slowly buying large quartz crystals when I can, and planning an order of acrylic tubing. Until I get all my supplies and electronics, my crystal is currently being held in this:
The glass bowl will be what eventually holds the crystals, tubing, and lighting, but for now I just have a $1 bag of decorative plastic vase/fishbowl rocks, and a hunk of floral foam I spent 5 minutes hacking at with a knife and spritzed with some opal spraypaint.
The glass bowl will be what eventually holds the crystals, tubing, and lighting, but for now I just have a $1 bag of decorative plastic vase/fishbowl rocks, and a hunk of floral foam I spent 5 minutes hacking at with a knife and spritzed with some opal spraypaint.
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Yes- that looks pretty cool TridCloudwalker
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