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Dont have alot of money for decorating this year but do have a bare plywood floor in the living room that is waiting for new floor over it.So i thought i can paint some stuff on it and cover it later.Cant seem to find what i;m looking for.Either a bottomless pit picture or like something crawling out of a hole in the ground.Creepier the better.Doesnt matter if its really detailed, i believe i can do it.Have airbrush to do fine detail also.Then i need to sort of seal it...doesnt have to be great just good enough for the night.I'm doing a faux castle floor for most of it.Really appreciate some pics or ideas. Thanks everyone.

okay guys and gals , i know your busy but nothing? i thought for sure in here someone would have an awsome idea.Nothing from my friends either....hmmm...i will find something.Have a few pics but nothing that says wow. Thanks anyway

Either a sinkhole or a broken floor leading to something castle-related underneath... a torture pit... a dungeon with corpses... hungry lions with a taste for peasants...

Scene setter makes a great floor cling that you could replicate with an airbrush:

http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/br...on+Floor+Cling

Eric

Hi,

These look like what you are describing . Search for tromp l'oeil .





Here is the site where I found these .

Post some pics when you finish your work .

Me personally, I'd paint it like a blood bath happened in there... Lots of splashes of red and some chalk outlines.

Getting the perspective right on a floor sized tromp l'oeil is serious business. If you've got the time and skill, it would be awesome, but also kind of sad to cover it up later...

I'd be tempted to do stuff like in the Silent Hill game series... chain link or bars on the ground with it fading out to nothing below it... or holes in the floor and walls that fade to blackness.

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/sile...02_02_640w.jpg
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/...ll-d3fo5ju.jpg

Or really fun... do the blood splashes using red florescent paint and then paint scary phrases in blacklight paint that is only visible when you have the blacklight on and invisible when the regular lights are on so it just looks like a bit of blood is tossed around... and pull a switch after the party is going. Regular dim/scary lighting, then flip that off and switch to blacklights and the scary writing jumps out at you. "we're all dead here" "no escape, no hope" eyes staring, stuff like that... so it looks like a person went crazy and killed a whole bunch of people at your house. If you saw the movie Orphan, things like her paintings that turn scary bad in the blacklight.

Thanks all , that 3d artist is great...now thinking on time i guess i should go for simple...but will take pics of what ever i do.

I had the chance to do this a little the year we were replacing the front porch. Since I had a pirate theme and blacklights on the porch, I painted the floor a bluish watery color, a big black "X" marks the spot where the candy was being handed out, florescent paint graffiti "avast!", "ahoy, matey", "scurvy dogs!", etc. It was fun.

Originally Posted by Wolfbeard

Scene setter makes a great floor cling that you could replicate with an airbrush:

http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/br...on+Floor+Cling

Eric

I made a copy of this and projected it to make it larger for a floor in one of my walkthrough rooms. Turned out great!

Originally Posted by huggybear

Dont have alot of money for decorating this year but do have a bare plywood floor in the living room that is waiting for new floor over it.So i thought i can paint some stuff on it and cover it later.Cant seem to find what i;m looking for.Either a bottomless pit picture or like something crawling out of a hole in the ground.Creepier the better.Doesnt matter if its really detailed, i believe i can do it.Have airbrush to do fine detail also.Then i need to sort of seal it...doesnt have to be great just good enough for the night.I'm doing a faux castle floor for most of it.Really appreciate some pics or ideas. Thanks everyone.

Hi huggybear ,

Did you do the airbrushed floor scene you were planning ?

Your idea inspired me to cover the floor of my 4' X 3' hallway entrance . Here are a couple of pictures of what I did .

I bought a Dollar store zombie window cling and glued it to a piece of board .Painted swirls to add depth to the sewer look .


Then I used wallpaper over the top with a sewer grate grid cut out and painted it to look rusted .Distressed the edges with some blacks, browns and greens.


Really looking forward to your airbrushed floor , post pics if you have them .

Thanks for the inspiration.