Steel Haunt Panels
If you’ve ever browsed the HalloweenForum you’re no doubt familiar with Terra. Suffice to say, she’s a prop making goddess. Her video tutorial on making steel haunt panels showcases the kind of cool, realistic looking props you can make for your haunt if you’ve got a little bit of skill and a lot of desire. This prop is not hard to create by any stretch of the imagination and won’t cost you a lot of money to create.
Items needed to create one panel include:
- Little over one 3/4″ thick pink or blue foamboard panel
- Three 8′ furring strips
- Twelve 4″ x 1 1/2″ pieces of plywood
- Four 2 1/2″ coarse drywall screws
- Twenty-four 1 5/8″ coarse drywall screws
- Foamboard glue
- Super 77 glue
- Twenty 3/8″ tile spacers
- Quart of exterior gray Glidden Gripper paint (exterior)
- Silver latex paint (had used Ralph Lauren)
- Raw sienna acrylic paint
- Rust colored monster mud
- Light rust colored monster mud
- Flat black acrylic paint
- Clear gloss acrylic varnish
- Paper towels
Optional Accessories include:
- 4 mini louvers 3″ (air vents)
- 1/2″ thick pink or blue foamboard panel
- PVC drain strainer
- Plastic rafter vent
- 16″ x 8″ air vent
- 16″ x 4″ air vent
- Hooks and zip ties for mounting to house
- Cement block(s)