ESB levitation ... how to make this prop?

[theyrenotdolls]

found this image on SW.com

wondering how one would go about construction

 

[lemonlemonuk]

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[Qui-Gonzalez]

If I had to guess, paint and canvas.

 

[Jango Wes]

If I had to guess, paint and canvas.

:lol Beat me to it.

If you wanted to make an actual set up like the painting, you could attach the rocks to the back drop with clear acrylic rods. Just a suggestion.

Wes

 

[Darth Lars]

I would guess some sort of electromagnet setup, however It can be tricky to get things to stabilize. Perhaps you could hack a ready made product like one of these:

http://www.7x7toys.com/708/2008/05/13/levitron-ag-anti-gravity-globe/

A few people have used this to make a levitating training remote. There are a few threads about it.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Are you talking something that actually floats or just looks like it's floating? It would be pretty easy to do if you had it near a wall. Just put some rods into the back of the rocks and stick them in corresponding holes in a background or wall.

 

[Jodo]

You could always learn the ways of the force.....

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

What I find hilarious is the position of the saber.

It's painted exactly from a known photograph of the actual ESB saber, known as the 'Skywalker Ranch Saber' because it was the only known ESB Graflex Luke saber still in the archives.

From the mid-1990's there were just a few different photographs of this saber from a few specific angles and that angle is one of them.

Later the missing red button on top was replaced with the red button that was on the bottom and it served as the bases for the Prop makers in Australia to make the Anakin EP3 Saber. It was on display as the last Celebration.

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

The Test Lamp switch is on the wrong side also. The reference images must have been reversed.