Halloween 2020

• Yes, I’m looking forward to Halloween because that will mean cooler weather in my neck of the woods.

Steve

jhz563,

Below is a pic of last years Halloween layout.  It is 9' wide x 6' deep.  I used grey felt to make the side and back curtains from and hung the side curtains from the garage door rails and I installed a cord rope from rail to rail to hang the back curtain (which can be seen at the top of the pic).  I made my own hooks to hang them with.  I purchased a 10' section of steel conduit pipe, cut it to length to fit thru the garage door rails and had a Halloween drape made to hang.  This I used to separate the layout from the Trick or Treaters.  If interested, I can provide you more info on what I, but this is a start.

Zeke13

@Zeke13 sure, I would love a picture of what you did in the front!  Nice display btw,  alot of those things look familiar!

Little more information on how my Halloween Layout is put together.  So Here goes:

Halloween Garage Layout 

6 ft deep, 9 ft wide

Platform is covered using brown felt

Platform is made of 6 bolt together sections, supported by homemade horses.

Walls / Curtains, 3 sides, made from dark grey felt (72 in. wide, cut to length) with tarp eyelets installed

      Right and left curtains hang from garage door tracks using homemade hooks

      Back curtain hangs from a rope tied to the end of the right and left garage door track using homemade hooks

      Back Curtain wraps behind the Right and Left Curtains to close the corner in.

Halloween Layout / Trick or Treater Divider (Note Pic below is of my smaller 6 x 7 ft. layout)

 Curtain made from Halloween material with pocket sewn in to accept metal conduit.

Metal Conduit is cut oversize to extend thru the right and left garage door tracks.  (Note:  I used a second length of conduit to weigh down the curtain and the conduit was cut to fit in between the tracks, not thru.

Table Skirt is made from plastic tarp, stapled to the front of the platform sections.  Plan on changing to a detachable table skirt.

Materials:

Walls / Curtains: Grey / Borwn felt purchased at fabric store, sold by the yard in 72” widths, pretty cheap when using coupon or on sale.

Divider: material purchased at fabric store, various prints available, conduit HD or L big box stores

Grommet Kit: purchased at an outdoor sporting goods store

Good Luck, Have Fun, Any questions - Ask.

ZEKE13

I hope there are Halloween activities this year. However, the local Kroger's already has their Halloween candy display heavily discounted.

I am hoping also!  Plan on either social distancing using a 6 ft. PVC pipe to send the candy thru.  Or better yet, have a loop of track that runs out about 10 feet and using several K-Line dump cars already in my lineup, dump the candy into their bags.

@Zeke13. Wow, thanks so much for the detailed look into your Halloween setup.  Dump cars would be a hoot!  Not sure it would work with the crush we get through our neighborhood,  but I love the concept!

My Dusk Till Dawn theme might go with a portable layout as I'm not always at my home that night ... the pvc idea will likely be copied sooner or later too...."too fun" really, lol.. Need a big funnel and an inverted T, the end a hidden door, Drop a rubber spider in the big funnel, and candy comes out the long tube instead.

And I'm not sure if I was posting often about that time, so last years window display video slides and some of the "scary" stock, "Round Up" being the only new car as I was focused on the track work being level on a 30" rickety picnic table/ stool, and power regulation from a cool looking vintage battery charger powering Skull and track both, and the large portions of Casey/Henry display too.

Saturday 10/31/2020 at 1:35pm, my Halloween RR station finally showed up. Talk about going down to the wire! It took 11 days to get here. It did not come with the Dept 56 two color light bulbs, so hubby Tom rigged an 18v amber bulb for it temporarily. The sound effects are pretty awesome.

This petite Halloween Std. & O Layout has sure been a bundle of fun to create!