Thread: Castle of Terra - Vampyr Reign

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Most excellent! Absolutely fantastic walk through. Any chance we'll see a floor plan of the layout? Thanks for sharing.

That was great! Congrats on the success and I too would love to see the layout/floorplan of what you did, also in the video at the 4:47 mark I would like to know how you got the tunnel effect, i.e. what type of material, paint and was it just lit with a blacklight?

Originally Posted by HallowSusieBoo

... "I didn't scream...I didn't srea.....aaaaaa!"

Wasn't that the funniest scene? I'll admit I was nervous that I'd hear that it wasn't scary and when she said this I was a little sad...and then I got her with Boogedy. Hilarious! Thanks so much

Originally Posted by SPUNONE

Terra you are the Queen of Halloween painting looks Great love the steps even in the Pic I thought they were steps.Kids must of loved the whole thing at least I did.About how long did it take you to do all the painting if ya don't mind?Again we bow to you and your Haunt

Thanks. It was way more work than I expected. I thought painting on the landscape fabric would be a breeze with the airbrush. NOPE! The paint just sucked into the fabric because of those little holes that are naturally in landscape fabric to allow water to reach the plants. So, Plan B: Gesso! Gesso is a really thick glue-like white primer paint you use in preparing artist canvases. So, now I had to hand paint the images with 2 coats. THEN I could airbrush and I had to do that twice to get enough pigment on. Also, quality of the fluorescent paint matters too. I was using Createx paints and it wasn't cutting it. Had to go for the big artillary...Wildfire paint. I painted 26 panels and took about a month.

innerseek, The Red Hallows, davy2, devils chariot, JohnnyAppleseed, Tumblindice: Thanks so much everyone. Really makes my day to read these comments

Originally Posted by Mikon

Most excellent! Absolutely fantastic walk through. Any chance we'll see a floor plan of the layout? Thanks for sharing.

Sure. I was a little nervous that the hallways would be too narrow but they were perfect! It adds a little claustrophobic scare... This is a 3-car garage:

Originally Posted by robisc

That was great! Congrats on the success and I too would love to see the layout/floorplan of what you did, also in the video at the 4:47 mark I would like to know how you got the tunnel effect, i.e. what type of material, paint and was it just lit with a blacklight?

I believe you are talking about this panel:



Same material used for all the ChromaDepth panels: black landscape fabric, primed with Gesso and Wildfire fluorescent paints. The whole black light section of the haunt is lit by five 4' twin fluorescent fixtures with T8 black light bulbs. Now what makes it super cool is the ChromaDepth. When you look at that panel with the glasses the orange and yellows are stationary when you move your head but the blue moves with you and also looks like it's 2 feet deeper in depth than the orange/yellows. It's so neat!

I know Crayola sells 3D chalk kits that comes with a set of glasses. Those are ChromaDepth glasses. Next time you see them at the store, grab a set and come back and look at the pictures. It will knock your socks off!

OK, I had to post again. You "got" me with the "stairs to the 'basement.'" I've been looking at this thread on an off since posted and I always thought those were real steps to a real basement, just painted. So in further reading the comments and review I now find out that it was in your garage and was an illusion! So I totally missed that one--ya got me!

"Construction shot. Look at all the wires on the ceiling!!!!!"


I actually LOVE this photo - it is so reassuring for us to find that someone else must think of a way to cover up all the wires!! Plus - love that lawnmower prop! We have one of those too and it is truly frightful!! LOL --

Quick question - do you build wood frames for the panels and connect them all - or just let the landscape fabric hang down? Also - what would you say is the approx. square footage of the garage? I think ours is much smaller - two car standard - so I would need to scale back the hallways a bit. And the floor stays painted all year long to be a welcome reminder of Halloween, right?!

I think I may have to watch this from time to time over the next year - just to get my fix! It's even better the more I watch it! And it was SUPERB the first time! BRAVO Terra again and again!

Oh and one more (I can't stop envisioning your haunt Terra!!) IS that panel (above) of the tunnel - one you can walk down? or just a flat picture painted to look like you could walk down it? This is the coolest effect of all!! If you bump into it - does it move like a curtain - or or or... man , you really got me on this one! Can you tell! " Oh that was scary ... Can we go again daddy. . . .?"

OHHH man that was such a cool vid of your haunt terra!!!

I would of luv'd seeing it in person!

soooooo cooooool

Originally Posted by cinders

OK, I had to post again. You "got" me with the "stairs to the 'basement.'" I've been looking at this thread on an off since posted and I always thought those were real steps to a real basement, just painted. So in further reading the comments and review I now find out that it was in your garage and was an illusion! So I totally missed that one--ya got me!

Ha ha, oh yeah... that makes me happy Yes, and with the glasses on not only does it really look like stairs but it also looks like the webs are 'suspended' from the stairway's ceiling. So, as you approach you think you are going to get a faceful of webs as you go down the stairs.

Originally Posted by HallowSusieBoo

... Quick question - do you build wood frames for the panels and connect them all - or just let the landscape fabric hang down? Also - what would you say is the approx. square footage of the garage? I think ours is much smaller - two car standard - so I would need to scale back the hallways a bit. And the floor stays painted all year long to be a welcome reminder of Halloween, right?! ...

Thanks so much Here's a construction shot of one of the panels (you can see all the others stacked up on the wall behind):



I suspended them from the ceiling using the roping you see. Once I got them up, I cut off the excess fabric at the top and the bottom but left the extra fabric on the sides. Then I bobbi-pinned the adjacent panels together. As I did this, the hallway would become a nice firm unit and would resist bumping and stuff. The little black flecks on the panels is Velcro that I used to attach the landscape fabric to.

The garage is 31' wide and 20' deep. I would think you would get an even better effect than I did if you do one or 2 scenes only and make the viewing distance farther. The closer you are to the ChromaDepth the less you see of it's effect. I would say that mine were a little too close. You still got the effect but less would have been more I think.

Yes, the floor is now permanently cool. I love seeing it

Originally Posted by HallowSusieBoo

Oh and one more (I can't stop envisioning your haunt Terra!!) IS that panel (above) of the tunnel - one you can walk down? or just a flat picture painted to look like you could walk down it? This is the coolest effect of all!! If you bump into it - does it move like a curtain - or or or... man , you really got me on this one! Can you tell! " Oh that was scary ... Can we go again daddy. . . .?"

Yes, that's a flat panel. If you bumped into it, it would give a little bit but because I pinned them all together they resisted pretty good and stayed put.

The parts that people really liked was the floor effect. The red footsteps look like they are hovering 2' above the floor. Oh, also the hall of flames. Because red colors advance and blue colors recede you really get the feeling like you are surrounded by flames.

Originally Posted by Halloween Night

OHHH man that was such a cool vid of your haunt terra!!!

I would of luv'd seeing it in person!

soooooo cooooool

Thanks, that's why I tried to get some good footage. It so cool to show our haunts to fellow haunters. I think we get it more than the average neighbor.

Terra if ya go to Home Depot they have plastic tarp grippers that I use to hold my Fabric panels in place instead of bobby pins seem to hold better FYI and I can't stick myself