I know there are some commercial backdrops out there, like the ones that
Emgo recently reviewed. But alas, I am on a bit of a budget at the moment, I fear. Still, I've long thought it would be cool to have some backdrops on the back of some of my figures' shelves. So I found a suitable image online:
I then printed it out across four pieces of paper. (Ran out of cyan ink after page three, and the replacement ink led to the sky being a
slightly different shade of blue on page four, but it isn't noticeable enough to cause me to scrap and reprint pages one through three.) With judicious use of double sided tape, I connected them all together then adhered them to the back of the shelf. The result:
Looks pretty darn good, if I say so myself! Yeah, maybe not quite as sharp or seamless as it could be if it was professionally printed, but for an at home job, well, it suits my needs nicely, and you can't knock the (lack of) price!
If you wanted to nitpick, you might point out that the height of the shelf is a bit taller than the height of the paper, meaning I had to leave a gap either at the top or the bottom. I chose to leave it at the bottom, for a few reasons. I figured, especially when they are in robot mode, the view across the very bottom would be more obscured anyway. And from the angle I see that shelf at when I am sitting on my couch, the bottom is also completely hidden.
I shall have to transform the inhabitants of that shelf in the near future, and see how they all look with that backdrop in robot mode! When I do, I shall come back and share the results once more. And also, when I feel like doing more printing and assembly, I have a backdrop for the shelf of Decepticons below this shelf.
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