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I was going for a mad lab theme for my yard this year but discovered Steampunk instead. I would like to do my haunt in that fashion but I can't seem to find examples. I have seen a lot of great costumes and accessories but not really anything I can decorate my house and yard around.

I have a couple ideas including using a fog machine to try and imitate steam busting from pipes on a machine I have yet to develop. I'm also looking into a prop that resembles a device on a video game I was playing. And I still plan on using the firecracker group buy as a fuse box prop of some kind.

If any of you haunters out there have decorated in this theme or know a source please fill me in.

I worked on a steampunk set we did for one of our shows at Texas A&M and it was ok but if you ue fog make sure you have a fast fan. we had a smoke stack that looked the part but the "steam" kinda just poured out the top it didn't really look like steam.
as for props try looking for scaffolding and costume wise to be scary think exterior mechanical like what would have been use din the old days instead of a cast
http://davethedigger.files.wordpress...7/dsc01926.jpg

I have to admit that I had to Google steampunk to find out what it even is. On the plus side, the wiki page for it shows a couple in front of a steam engine, so I would think making the front of a 1940's steam engine, with fog coming out of the push rod areas and smoke stack, and a working light, would look great and wouldn't be too hard/expensive to make.

Originally Posted by znelson710

I worked on a steampunk set we did for one of our shows at Texas A&M and it was ok but if you ue fog make sure you have a fast fan. we had a smoke stack that looked the part but the "steam" kinda just poured out the top it didn't really look like steam.
as for props try looking for scaffolding and costume wise to be scary think exterior mechanical like what would have been use din the old days instead of a cast
http://davethedigger.files.wordpress...7/dsc01926.jpg

Do you happen to have any pics of the set you used for your shows?

I was going on a search for you this is what I found:
http://www.coolbuzz.org/entry/life-s...eampunk-skull/ {this is pretty cool }

here is a picture of the stage but there is a blue light on the stage. the thing in the corner behind the guy is an old mechanical light board backlight with orange lights

here is the other end of the stage the gate was eventually painted black for the performances and the stair contour iht the giant circle on the ground but i dont know if you can see it.

Instructables.com has a whole section on Steampunk props people have made:

http://www.instructables.com/tag/typ...nel-steampunk/

Originally Posted by tamster

I was going on a search for you this is what I found:
http://www.coolbuzz.org/entry/life-s...eampunk-skull/ {this is pretty cool }

That a great looking prop.

Originally Posted by znelson710

here is a picture of the stage but there is a blue light on the stage. the thing in the corner behind the guy is an old mechanical light board backlight with orange lights

I like the large gear and smoke stack. That gives me a couple of ideas.