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=== Tombstones === | === 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 [ | 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 [https://us.dremel.com/en_US/tools/-/subcategory/tool/find-by-category/27343/rotary Dremel], or with more advanced [https://hotwirefoamfactory.com/ hot wire] foam carving techniques. After they are [[shaped]], [[weathered]], and lettered with your favorite [http://www.all-about-halloween.com/epitaphs.html epitaphs], you will need to paint over them to give them a more [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=halloween+tombstone+stone+painting+technique stone-like appearance], and finally finish them off with some [https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yset_bnr_chr_win&ei=UTF-8&p=foam+tombstone+finishing+techniques+halloween&type=searchsetv2Aug27#id=3&vid=68b2db3314641b23d3caa66af290e3a6&action=click detail painting] to add moss like effects, darken the lettering, or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTjuM2fGZ-k tea stain] them for an aged effect. | ||
=== Cemetery Fence === | === Cemetery Fence === | ||
Revision as of 07:46, 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.