A Question concerning Lightboxes.
I want to construct a forced perspective lightbox. As with my name, one of my obviously favorite movies is Apocalypse Now, and this light box is of the scene "Do Lung Bridge".
The forced perspective lightbox will be right when the PBR enters towards the bridge, almost the exact seen start.
I plan, for the Lightbox, on useing a 1/35 PBR by Tamiya, making slight conversions to suit the movie, and then using many many various figures and intermatching and sculpting different parts to make the PBR crew and fleeing soldiers. I'll try to find a small scale UH-1 and place it farther back for a forced perspective and then create a bridge using Balsa and use 1/72 scale figures. I will have to use an epoxy or whatever is used to do water and then sculpt the junlge, etc.
My questions to you are:
1) Are there any general tips for lighting a lightbox?
2) Any ideas on how to create the dense jungle area that will be on the ridge of the riverbank?
3) Any tips for creating water with a dark muddy tone? for creating water on a slope ( the river and river bank will be tilted slightly for a forced perspective).
4) How would someone go about creating a WORKING SCALE spotlight? I assume you create the light and then put a cover on it that is driven by a motor.
5) What are the best places to obtain lighting and electrical materials and very small lights that can be used in this lightbox?
And for anyone as meticulous as I, in the movie, as most know, half of the canopy is destroyed by a lit object thrown at them. After that scene is the Do Lung Bridge scene, but the canopy here is in perfect condition. Should I model it as in the movie or with the palm branch convering that I guess was meant to be in that part of the movie?
This will take too much time, too much money, and too much of my sanity, but you have to try it all.