Welcome Guest Login or Signup
LIVE CHAT | INSTANT MESSENGER | BOOKMARK
| LANGUAGE:
 

Haunt_Master
PROFILE   GALLERY   BLOGS   GUESTBOOK   FRIENDS   FAVORITES   VIDEOS  
 


RSS
Haunt construction
Posted On: 09/22/2007 11:23:52

Today Sept. 22nd is finally here!
That marks the first day of building my haunt, Maze of Terror! Typically we start the weekend before but, something came up. Pretty much almost every Saturday I'll be busy building the maze. A normal days work on it is around 6 hrs. Would like to work on it more than just a day a week. But, my allergies prevent me from working on it two days in a row. If I did, then I'd get so sick that I'd miss work.

The Quanta metal domed machine shed that houses the haunt is 37x82 w/ 25 ft ceiling height at it's peak. The floor of the shed is gravel & a small spill of leftover corn & soybeans yearly. The electrical system is the old screw in fuses, not sure what amp service. It has 2 sliding double doors both front & back. A small 10x12 workshop doubles as the controls room. For 2 months a year, the shed is ours for the haunting. The rest of the year it's used as storage for farming equipment.

It's a Medieval theme this year with the haunt being it's dungeon. I'm planning on having a tunnel/cave as it's entrance to it. Once thru it guests will be greeted & escorted to a holding cell by the "executioner". It's there they will wait their sentencing. Small groups of "innocent" criminals will be escorted to the stocks. The ring leader will be sentenced & the group escorted to the dungeon to seal their fate.

Note- I'm keeping a weekly progress blog w/ pics.
Be sure to stop in to see our progress.



Bookmark:



Viewing 1 - 2 out of 2 Comments

09/23/2007 18:23:48


Update- Sept. 22

Haunt crew- Jason, Stephanie, Me (Scott)
 
Today is the big day & first day of the build.

 It's typical that we will have to move the farm equipment out of the
shed to another location before starting. That takes a while to do
& clear the floor space to work in. The first day of the build
tends to go a bit slow. But, walls seem to jump in place before we know
it. The maze isn't planned out in a 3D foam model or designed with the
"triangular grid system" (like at HFW HH). Not knocking the system, it
just doesn't work well on an uneven gravel floor. My nephew Jason &
I are the main builders, (although we have some help from friends &
family). We also have a lot more time to put it together (40-50 hrs)
with less crew. The 3 of us worked from 1:30pm - 8:45pm, with a break for Supper. Since Stephanie never helped build a haunt or haunted maze, we had to explain how & what we do.
 
Keep checking back for weekly progress details.



09/23/2007 00:14:59
Sounds like fun. Best of luck to you and your ghouls!



*** HauntSpace.Com Copyright 2006-2008 ***