Every Egyptian tomb needs a secret room, so we put in a little Indiana Jones action for ours. This is placed below the table containing the main Halloween Mummy Village and is lit with miniature Christmas Village spot lights. Making these Halloween dioramas look good is all about the lighting. This one has two lights, one aimed at the left wall and one at the floor, the rest of the lighting is simply spill from these two spots, very effective when viewed at night. The light on the wall also lights up Indy as you can see from his shadow on the wall (rope and arm).
The floor and walls are made out of foam core with flooring and wallpaper printed from images found online. The columns likewise are made of foam core rolled into tubes and then covered with with a column like wallpaper found online. Indy and the Ark of the Covenant are toys, purchased at Disney's California Adventure at a toy store right in the front of the park which has a big Indy section, good reason for a day at Disney! With park admission for me and my wife, plus food and of course Indy, this little display cost over $200, but it was a fun day. If you cut out the Disney trip you could make one for a lot less, Indy toys are all over eBay. The snakes are from Target, they were originally bright yellow glow in the dark and were simply painted using a Sharpie black marker. The Obelisk on the left is a paper model found online (I did a BIG search for Egyptian Paper Models on Google, pretty much used everything I found). The two Egyptian God statues are paper models from
Paper-Replika.com , lots of great paper models on this site if you like making your own stuff.
The whole thing was simply taped to the bottom of the Halloween Village table using black duct tape, some black duct tape was also used to create "curtains" to hide the miniature spot lights in the top corners. Colored duct tape is a key construction technique I use in both the miniature villages and outside, with Black and Camo being my two favorites.
