Here
is an Outside view and an Inside View of The Pit
You hear
a voice screaming for you to come down and help. You lean over The Bottomless
Pit and look down, you can see forever. The voice screams again asking for
help one last time, and then it happens, the Creature that lives down in the
Pit attacks and eats its victim and all you can do is enjoy the sounds of
crunching bones, grinding teeth and the shrill cries of another victim lost,
to THE BOTTOMLESS PIT.
Materials
Needed:
1 - 2 foot
by 2 foot piece of Mirror
1 - 2 foot
by 2 foot piece of 2 Way Glass (one side is a mirror and the other side looks
like plain glass that you can see through. You can get this from any glass
place, get it together with the Mirror)
3 - 8 foot
2x4's
1 - sheet
of plywood
1 - Light
socket with a plug attached (this will plug directly into a wall outlet)
1 - 100
watt light bulb
1- tape
recorder with a loop tape (A loop tape plays constantly so there will be no
rewinding, get a loop tape that is 1 minuet long, that should be enough. Once
you have the tape record some screams and even a monster or two and make sure
to add an echo to the finished version by using windows sound recorder for
that down in the pit effect.
4 sheets
of Pink Foam insulation (get it from Home Depot)
Some water
paint - brown, black, white, etc.
Contact
Cement
Instructions:
Step
1 - Cut the plywood in 3 foot by 2 foot sections
Step
2 - cut the 2x4's into 2 foot pieces, you will need 8 of them ( these
pieces will be used to hold the mirror and the 2 way Glass in place. You will
need to use a router and make a groove in the 2x4 so the Mirror and the 2
way glass can fit into the grooves when you assemble the top and bottom portion
of the Pit. You will use 4 of the 2 foot 2x4's for the top frame and the other
4 for the bottom frame. The Glass pieces will fit into the grooves of the
wood and then you can screw the 2x4 together making the top and bottom frames
of The Pit. The 2 way glass will be the top frame and the mirror will be the
bottom frame. When the light is turned on in the pit and you look down into
the pit, whatever you have on the walls will reflect back and forth just like
in a barber Shop when you look in a mirror in front of you and you see the
mirror in back of you , you see infinity. This leads us to our next step.
Step
3 - Get the pink foam insulation and cut it to look like stone pieces.
Then paint them stone colors (don't use spray paint, it will melt the foam
insulation.)
Step
4 - Make some corners out of some of the left over 2x4's ( refer to Diagram
1 , these corners will hold the pit together and act as a rest for the frames
with the mirrors in them.) Just cut one 3 inch piece and one 2 inch piece
and screw them together. Remember you will need 8 of them. DIAGRAM
1
Step
5 - Cut or have the plywood cut where you but it to four 3 foot by 2 foot
sections.
Step
6 - Assemble the four pieces of plywood using the 8 corners you made.
Refer to Diagram 2. Screw them into each corner making sure you have a good
fit. DIAGRAM 2
Step
7 - When the plywood is assemble drill a hole in the center of the plywood
pieces for the light. Without the light there is no reflection, just darkness.
Step
8 - After the light is in glue the stone pieces on the inside of the pit.
Step
9 - if you made the pit correctly the plywood box should fit into the
mirror frame. (Remember the mirror frame is the bottom frame. The top frame
which is the 2 way glass frame should fit onto the top of the plywood and
rest on the 4 top corners. Make sure you have the corners even so they support
the glass frames evenly.)
Step
10 - Slide the tape player with the loop tape under the pit and let it
play !
THE END
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