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The foam faux walls for the outside of the carport. "Faux" is a French word, meaning "fake." I could have said "fake," but "faux" sounds more intelligent, particularly when all I'm really talking about is a few sheets of blue foam insulation and some vinyl set decoration. |
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This is a close up of the 1" L bracket we use to hang our foam onto the vinyl siding on the front of my porch. We secure two of these to the top of each section of wall using a 1" long nut and bolt and washer assembly. That part of the brack that hangs out, making the lip, is then slid into the crevice between the siding pieces. The wall then hangs in place! It's great!
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Here is a section of the wall in place,s howing the L brackets slid into the crack between the sections of siding. There is no other support- no screws, no bolts, nothing- held in place merely by gravity.
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Here's what that section looks like when it is in place. The blue foam panel is covered with a printed vinyl sheet we got originally from Shindigz catalog,though it is also immediately available from Party City. It is a product called "Scene Setters" and there are several varieties... this castle stone, a cemetery scene, and something like haunted woods. We applied it using 3M 77 spray adhesive. No, the 77 does not eat through the foam. the learning curve on how best to apply the vinyl was pretty slow... it took us most of the final product to get it down, but now that we have it, the rest of our foam walls will look marvelous!
You'll notice a ceiling fan motor suspended on the right side. That is the power wheel for the Crackpuppies located elsewhere in the 2004 site. |
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And here is the completed front facade. The window has a frosted shower curtain hanging in it to act as our rear screen for the projection of the Magic Mirror digital puppet. His head will be about three feet high, floating behind the window, interacting with the ToTs and their parents.
Here is that vid. It has a special thanks to CC for the puppet! |
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Candy will be dispensed through a hole in the middle of that front piece, dropping out of a long PVC tube running all the way into my livingroom directly behind the porch.
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| And here is the final oblique angle shot. From this angle, you can really see how our prototype piece, the second one from the left, really doesn't match the pattern of the rest of it. We may be moving it to the other side and replacing it with a newly-stoned piece of foam. |
