P3D Lots of creative Dottle-ing with RBT mounts

[Jon Golden <3dman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

IN a recent P3D posting, plastic mount Surgeon Dr Mark Dottle (yet
another medical specialty...but does your HMO cover this) showed us a
creative method of using colored tissues...and all white RBT mount
halves to create a "vanity window"  great idea.

To add to Mark's ideas , I would like to suggest that there are all
kinds of ultra thing masking materials that can really enhance and
tighten up a presentation with RBT mounts.

Ever had that image that you wanted to project but that darn blade of
grass showed up in the bottom and its interfering with the window.
You wished that you had 2-10mm horizontal masking power.
Or that great image of the pet tarantula...on the living room
carpet....but you really wish you could mask out most of the extreme
edges...and tight crop on the littel creature so you can project it off
the screen and  in to someones lap one night (screams!)

Well there are a few things you can do.

1) Contact Harry Richards < hjrich@xxxxxxxxxx> about the wonderful
selection of cardboard foldover masks he carries (Harry wont want the
tarantula though)  One year at NSA...I got a set of large (approx 14mm)
and small (approx 10mm) circular masks from him,
great for the tarantula....I can get that little monster right tight to
the window now...with a small circle mask.

 Then at NSA in Richmond ...Harry had a reduced height and width
rectangular foldover....approx 12mm h x 18mm wide....which works well
with RBTs too.

Simply use one half of Harry's foldovers masks...and cut down the OD of
the mask halve so it fits inside two RBT halves....use some Wess tabs
from Dalia or from Reel 3D... and the range of possibilities is greater
than ever.

Another material that is handy to keep around is leftover EMDE and
ALbion masks.  I use one half of these thin aluminum masks if I need an
entire bottom or top edge masked off in the larger RBT openings.
I use the outer edge of the mask...and I can crop out an unwanted lower
foreground...or an upper backround of objet interfering with the window
at the upper edge.

This all may seem a bit hard to picture to those who have not tried
it....but I suggest just getting some of these materials yourself and
trying it as I did.  With a little persistence and patience...it opened
up a whole new world of mounting and projection possibilities.

Regar-D-D-D-s
Jon G


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