Prop Tutorials
Prop Tutorials
Forget Faux Steel Vacuform Panels! Learn To Build Your Own Steel Panels Using Foam!

So you want to have some industrial steel looking panels for your haunt, but don’t want to spend a ton of money on Vacuform panels. Well, no worries. Terra shows you how to build your own faux steel wall panels using good old fashion foam panels! Learn more inside….

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Build a Scary Circus or Carnival Themed Ticket Booth

Do you have a circus or carnival themed haunt? Then your going to need a ticket booth to welcome all your victi… err… I mean guest! This tutorial will show you how to create a great looking booth in around 4 – 8 hours of work.

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Learn to Build Your Own Foam Based LED Glowing Tombstone!

Learn how to build your own foam based gunslinger tombstone with glowing bullet holes and LED lighting from the tombstone building master herself, Terra!

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Allen Hopps Teaches You How To Make Your Own Dirty Little Rat!

Need that something little extra to scare the crap out of those waiting in your que lines? How about a nice little dead rat that you can pull out of your pocket to get that little extra jump from your guest! In this week’s video, Allen teaches us how to take some wire, a hot glue gun and some dryer lint to create some really creepy little rats that can be posed in a variety of positions.

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Learn How To Build Foam Barrels For Your Haunted Attraction or Yard Haunt!

Allen is back with his weekly video tutorial! This week, Allen teaches everyone on how to make foam barrels for your haunted attraction or yard haunt. While in the video he paints it for black light haunts, you can paint it for a more traditional appearance.

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Learn How To Create Resign Pieces Using Silicone Sheet Molds!

Allen has returned to teach us this week how to use silicon sheet mold’s to pour resin pieces for your prop building needs! Be sure to give it a watch and if you have any questions or want to share your own tips and techniques, be sure to post them on our new forums!

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Learn How To Make Latex Applications Using The Plaster Plate Mold Technique!

Allen’s back! And this week he’s sharing how to create severed parts of a human face using a super simple plaster plate mold technique. Really great results and finished pieces cost around $0.50! Now this week’s video is broken into two parts that we have posted inside! Be sure to watch them now!

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Build A Variety of Weapons For Your Haunt Affordably Using Plastic and Foam!

It’s time for another great video from Allen Hopps! This week’s video is Allen showing you how to create prop weapons for sets, actors, or costumes cheap easy and fast using a single piece of plastic. Just as if he was from some Highlander movie working like an ancient Japanese sword maker forging weapons from steel in a cave…. only he’s a dude in a garage somewhere in Texas working with plastic and foam, but the principal is the same.

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