Hoverboard Hologram Pattern Question

[ShadowX81]

Hey, im trying to build a hoverboard but have gotten toa roadblock. I have no clue what to use for the holographic hoverboard pattern. People here have suggested some lenticular material or even a sanded down acryllic light board, but the problem is that these both have textures to them. Im looking at pictures of the real prop right now, and it appears to just be a flat hoographic paper material.
Plus it looks to be a light purple, and not just the pink of the board showing through something clear. Anyone have any insight on what this material may be?

 

[jackdoud]

Do a board search, the actual material used on the hero boards was found a few years ago and a run was made. You may get lucky and someone could have extra still or you could always try to find people and do a run yourself. :thumbsup

 

[ShadowX81]

I have done a board search. As mentioned in my first post, that stuff has a texture to it an d is translucent pink. On the real prop it is a flat (like paper) purple holographic material.

 

[Mr. Nagata]

There were two types of materials used on the boards. The first "hero" props were made with lenticular material, like this photo, with all the graphics/velcro/ and whatever else hand cut and applied on top:

http://www.ketzer.com/backtothefuture/bttf2_mattel_PH.jpg

You can see the clear plastic prism layer separating from the printed pattern underneath in the damaged areas.

The second boards were made using a poor color copy of the lenticular material, all the graphic details were printed right on as well. Like one big decal that covered the whole board. So it lacked any lenticular properties and was basically, like you said, just a printed graphic on paper:

http://www.ketzer.com/backtothefuture/mattel_hoverboard.jpg

The correct material has been found and offered up a couple of times on the board before. As for the color copy stuff, that would probably be even more difficult to duplicate since it's a copy of the original material (i.e. you'd still need to procure the original material to make it).

 

[Gary Weaver II]

The Printed boards are actually two photographic prints spliced together for each side. They just took a holographic hero board and made a photo, which they then printed for the boards.

-Gary

 

[ShadowX81]

To be honest i'm not really convinced that the printed boards are simply a copy of the leniticular material.

Look at the "hero boards". The lenticular material looks like a grid of somewhat large pink squares. On the printed boards, the pattern is made up of very thin little rectangles with rounded edges.

Either way, the printed boards are always been what I pictured a hoverboard as looking and feeling like. Does anyone know where I can get some graphics for the printed boards?

 

[jackdoud]

http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/jdoud2/bttf_hoverboard_vector.pdf

 

[ShadowX81]

Yea, i've seen that one before. Decent, but it isn't really all that accurate or high quality. Does anyone know a place to get some film quality printed graphics?

 

[Mr. Nagata]

I really differ to Gary about this, but if the printed boards were made from some preexisting graphic and not a photograph, then why the bizarre irregularity in the size of the cells? Look at the size of the cells above the word "Hover" and the size of the cells below the word "Board." The top ones are tiny and squashed together and the lower ones are much larger. That's the kind of weird distortion you get from photographing something and printing it out, not from precisely printed graphics.

 

[ShadowX81]

If that was true though, wouldn't the more noticeable parts of the graphic like the words and lines be distorted as well?

 

[ShadowX81]

Heres two comparison shots of the lenticular material from the hero boards compared with the graphics from the printed boards.

Im apsolutely convinced that theis was a completely seperate material and not just a photograph made of the hero board printed out. It is clear that the shape of the patterns is different, as well as the color.
It looks like some sort of purple holographic material.

If they had taken a picture of the board and distorted it to the amount that it looks like this, then im sure that very noticeable distortion would be visable on the more prominant parts of the graphic as well.

If anyone can shed some more light on what this stuff is and how to aquire (or at the very least replicate it) I would really appreciate it.

 

[Risu]

What if they scanned it? I could see the moving light on the scanner causing the lenticular to look weird once it's scanned in.

 

[Meta440]

Not lenticular stuff here but I just found this online, doesn't look to bad online but I haven't seen a sample in person yet.

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