My wife has a few childhood horse toys that she wants to display in our daughter’s room. So I’ve been searching to find something that might be more of museum artifact display.
Here is a photo I found on a museum site. With displays that look like what she wants. But I’ve had no luck finding anything.
I did find these bendable metal display stands that you can bend to the shape you need.
My wife prefers the acrylic as the object more appears to be floating. Any ideas on where I might could locate those?
You can buy rectangular pieces under different brand names like Perspex, Lucite, and Plexiglass. You can easily score and cut it, glue and/or fuse pieces together with “plastic weld” solvents (i.e. chloroform and similar), and I have had success bending it with a hot-air heat gun. I know a guy who constructed a special bending jig out of wood and a resistance heating filament.
If you are displaying them in a cabinet. You could use clear fishing line attached to the bottom of the shelf above them. This would likely give an even more realistic floating effect. But on an open surface you would need to go all the way to the ceiling.
Trying to keep it simple. But it is difficult. How much hand crafting are you willing to do?
A nice effect can be made with a large backboard. Paint it black. Attach wood dowels pointing straight out also black. A hole drilled through the end of the dowel. Again use clear filament to attach the object to the dowel end. The black dowel will be mostly hidden behind the object. The dowels are most easily mounted to the backboard by drilling the right sized holes to slip them in and glue.
