Tombstones & Cemetery Fences

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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. 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