Thread: Mad Lab in garage

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I need some ideas...I want to put a red light, strob light, small fogger and Mad Lab sound effect near the door on one side of the garage. I was thinking of only opening it a little bit, as I do not want the kiddies crawling into it. But I do want them to be able to look in. I was thinking about using the black landscape fabric form Home Depot but I am not sure how I can hang it. I dont want viewers to look in and see the jeep and garage stuff.
Any ideas are appreciated.
Diane

Listen to them...The children of the night. What music they make.

How about using the jeep for a prop too. You could turn on the 4 way flashers and cover it with a light colored tarp or old sheets so it would look like some sort of expreiment. if you have a battery charger you could even use the sound system,(if there is one) to play a cd or a loop tape of strange sounds.

If it's there already just turn it into a prop. A lawn mower or bicycle can be covered and lit with a colored lamp just as a distraction. Rope lights are cheep, (around 6 bucks) and can mold to a lot of shapes.As far as heeping the kiddies out, how about using chicken wire on the bottom of the door. Yhat way you can see through but it denys access.

Don't drop the Jacob's Ladder!

We have used lightweight shear fabric, black plastic, and heavier semi opaque plastic for our haunted garage for about 10 years. In our climate duct tape (looped over studs, if that's what you have for a ceiling) doesn't hold reliably because of the cold. My favorite (and it's not as destructive as it sounds) is to staple the fabric to the ceiling with a staple gun. I like this because it isolates sections of the garage for different lighting effects. You can use light, shear black fabric as a scrim (I go to the clearance section of the fabric store and just start holding fabrics up to the light), by hanging black plastic as a backdrop, and then the shear stuff in front of your scene. You can light it from behind the scrim (and even trigger it as people walk by, with a sensor) and people can see into it but will usually not disturb it because of the barrier. The chicken wire sounds like a good idea, and, properly dressed, could become part of your scene. You could put up a large branch in front of your scene, as though you are sneaking a peak through the forest at the mad scientist. Or you could build prison bars from tool handles (tool portion cleverly disguised by the cardboard base) wrapped in duct tape or spray painted.

Landscape fabric is more expensive than black plastic, and you can use the thin stuff (cheapest) anywhere you don't care if there is a little movement to your backdrop. We duct tape the plastic to the floor as well, which could solve this problem.