The 3rd part of the 4 part Disneyland Haunted Mansion Diorama set is the Stretching Room. This was a quick build based upon 4 bookmarks available at Haunted Dimensions, link at right.
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| Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, approximately 1/12 scale. This one is real easy, mostly just printouts with some practical lighting. |
Here is the finished diorama, with practical lighting effects. Below are several build pictures of this simple diorama.
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| This Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama is based around 4 bookmarks by Ray Kiem and his Haunted Dimensions. Link on the right. It was his model of the Conservatory Coffin and these bookmarks that gave me the idea to do this 4 part diorama. |
Here are the 4 bookmarks from Haunted Dimensions. The pictures slide in and out of the bookmark, but I am using them glued in the fully extended position. They are sitting inside of the basic 1 foot square diorama box, this time in white foam core (I ran out of black). The back wall is simply 4 foam core panels.
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| Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, showing basic form and contact paper |
The back wall was covered with standard wood grain contact paper available at most hardware and home improvement stores.
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| Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, showing the wall panels in place |
Here is a top view showing the wall panels lined up against the display walls.
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| Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, with contact paper applied to the wall panels. |
And here are the walls with the contact paper applied.
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| Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, applying the floor printouts. |
In this picture you can see that the bookmarks have been glued to the wall panels. The floor is made from several printouts of the same wall pattern used in the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attic diorama. This time cut into triangles and glued to the floor. The extra white spaces were filled in with more of the wall print.
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| Disneyland Haunted Mansion Diorama finished, with practical lighting effects. |
And here again is the finished Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama. The lights were some miniature battery operated Christmas lights that I had layout around from last year. These were picked up in a craft store and are designed for use in Christmas Village displays. Installing them was simplicity itself, I simply poked a pencil through the front of the display at the top of each candle in the bookmarks and stuck the lights through from the back side. The figure is a Disneyland Haunted Mansion Action Figure of the Caretaker. He may or may not make it into the final display, I haven't decided yet.
Just one diorama to go, that is a bit of the hallway showing the Demon Clock and a doorway. With of course that spooky eyes wallpaper.
