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I have been thinking of putting a little lab table or doctors table, but so far i have a dummy on it that has been cut into, a test tube thing, well thats it. Do you have anymore ideas on what i can do?

Lots and lots of viles with different things in them. Perhaps use tonic water or other uv reactive fluids in them and light them with a black light from below. Also, those "lightning" electric-looking globes you can find work well. Do a couple searches here on the forum, there are some great scenes people have put together.

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Old fish pumps and lines to make them bubble!

Those ultrasonic fogger units you can find at a home and garden shop (Lowe's, Home Depot) will look great spilling fog and mist over the table. Also, the fountain pumps you can find at the same places can have some great uses for your look as well.


Mike C.

Depends on what type of lab you want. I have a misting cauldron, bubbling containers (fish tank bubbler), glowing stuff, etc etc... was gonna do more electrical looking stuff, but space and time didn't allow.

I made a lab table out of scrap 2x4's and plywood, then made a test tube rack out of plastic tubes that go over florescent lights and an upside down tomato cage (we used a fish pump to make bubbles in some of the tubes). Shopped alot of thrift stores and found odd looking tools and an old humidifier that we painted. Hung a blacklight there and it came out great.

We also used two sawhorses covered with an old door, then covered the whole thing in white sheets from walmart and put a inflated body form on the table (also covered in a shet). I cut a hole in the door and used a PVC tube on a pivot to make the body jump when you stepped on a pedal. It was only supposed to be for that year, but ended up using every year.

Hope that helps!

Wow, that fluorescing liquid is a nice touch.

We have a "Mad Scientist" dressed in a Lab coat, and mount candles under our Beakers and Test Tubes keeping the colored water warm, and have him drop a chunk of Dry Ice into them from time to time. Bubbles plus fog. Remember, the Creepier, the Better.

i made my autopsy table out of metal pieces used for duct work and laid over a card table then bloody sheets, manequin with ugly mask on head found a rubber chest with guts hanging out at thrift store a pulsating heart at Halloween store and mannequin legs with real rubber feet covers from a theatre prop yard sale... the light over head on a cord with blue light blub swinging was great just a workshop lamp from home depot for 5$. LOts of rusty tools and old medical equipment he was a hihglite....put a table next to him with flasks and gorey gauze and tubing and lab suchhelps to be a nurse....

have funlet me know what you find