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One of the best places to get started as a Home Haunter for Halloween is with the creation of a graveyard scene in your front yard. | One of the best places to get started as a Home Haunter for Halloween is with the creation of a graveyard scene in your front yard. There are a number of ways to make a headstone that is lightweight and yet realistic looking. And once you get a nice set of headstones built, you will want to give them a little protection by creating a cemetery fence. And what good is a fence without a gate and a sign? Now those tombstones are looking a little basic, let's turn them up a bit and add a mausoleum. And..... | ||
=== Tombstones === | |||
It is common to use 2 inch pink or blue extruded [[insulation foam sheets]] to create lots of tombstones. They are easy to rough shape, they have a smooth texture, unlike the white foam made of expanded beads of foam. They are easy to carve by hand with a [[Dremel]], or with more advanced [[hot wire]] foam carving techniques. After they are [[shaped]], [[weathered]], and lettered with your favorite [[epitaphs]], you will need to paint over them to give them a more [[stone-like appearance]], and finally finish them off with some [[detail painting]] to add moss like effects, darken the lettering, or [[tea stain]] them for an aged effect. | |||
=== Cemetery Fence === | |||
==== Gates ==== | |||
==== Columns ==== | |||
==== Cemetery Signs ==== | |||
=== Mausoleums === | |||
=== Larger Monuments === | |||
Revision as of 06:13, 9 January 2022
One of the best places to get started as a Home Haunter for Halloween is with the creation of a graveyard scene in your front yard. There are a number of ways to make a headstone that is lightweight and yet realistic looking. And once you get a nice set of headstones built, you will want to give them a little protection by creating a cemetery fence. And what good is a fence without a gate and a sign? Now those tombstones are looking a little basic, let's turn them up a bit and add a mausoleum. And.....
Tombstones
It is common to use 2 inch pink or blue extruded insulation foam sheets to create lots of tombstones. They are easy to rough shape, they have a smooth texture, unlike the white foam made of expanded beads of foam. They are easy to carve by hand with a Dremel, or with more advanced hot wire foam carving techniques. After they are shaped, weathered, and lettered with your favorite epitaphs, you will need to paint over them to give them a more stone-like appearance, and finally finish them off with some detail painting to add moss like effects, darken the lettering, or tea stain them for an aged effect.