Krough's Tombstone Entry

[krough]

Here it is.
http://www.grimvisions.com/images/tombstone/tombstone%20077-sm.jpg
http://www.grimvisions.com/images/tombstone/tsf1.jpg

Info, cost, measurement photo, and more pics at
http://www.grimvisions.com/thestone.htm

[DeathTouch]

Man you beat everyone out of the starting gate again. And again it looks awesome.

[roadkill]

Holy moley! That's AWESOME!

Good work amigo!

[Zombie-F]

Impressive. Kicking it up a notch right out of the gate, aren't you krough?

[Dr Morbius]

SWEET! Terrific job as usual, Krough. Very spooky pic too!

[roadkill]

I hope a how-2 is forthcoming...

nudge nudge

[Merlin (The Quiet One)]

Wow! That looks great!

[Hella]

excellent work krough, as usual setting the bar for the rest of us.

[Bone Dancer]

Krough, you are an artist, I really don't know what else to say.

[Otaku]

Wow! I love that stone. Krough, you're making me re-think my entry. Very impressive!

[heresjohnny]

That is outstanding krough! What a paint job! Maybe you could come visit and paint mine? Please?

[krough]

I cant come paint your tombstone HJ. But I'll tell ya exactly how I did it.

1. I spackled all the cracks and sanded the whole stone.
2. Base coat of black Krylon H20, Its a latex water based spray and doesnt appear to eat the foam.
3. I used anitque white spray paint on the skele and skulls.
4. I then took small amount of exterior latex in the "irish mist" color from Home Depot. I pulled out the acrylic craft paints and grabbed the lamp black. I mixed about 1/2 cup of the latex and maybe a 1tsp or more of the lamp black. The color should be a medium gray.
5. I took a paper towel and wadded it up in my hand. Dipped it in the paint, and then scraped the excess off of the towel on a scrap of wood. I then began dabbing the towel on the surface.
6. I let that dry for maybe 30 minutes.
7. I took some yellow ochre acrylic craft paint and put some on a 1/2 inch flat brush and started to make the yellow tones on the skull heads and stone surface. Very light distribution mostly, a few areas I hit heavier like the top of the large skull. and also heavy on the skele.
8. Repeat step 7 with "irish mist"(white), and and then using a rust colored paint I did a very light distribution in a few select places (very light).
9. For the black below the large skull eyes I sprayed a good amount of black spraypaint in them then took a spray bottle of water and filled the eyes until it ran down out and down.
10. Final step. Light coat of poly urethane, then took some lamp black acrylic and added it to my bottle of water, so I had a very dark grey colored water.
I sprayed this over the entire surface, very heavy at the top so that the darkness ran down the stone.

Enjoy. I make this up as I go along. This entire process was done on the fly and I had no idea how it would end up. LOL

[Dr Morbius]

That is how mine is going too, Krough. I'm just making it up as I go along, and I can only hope mine looks half as good as yours.

[Bram Bones]

Agreed. That's a really great stone.
Cool design and paint job.

[DeathTouch]

I was thinking about just buying a tombstone from FE. Maybe I will have a chance to beat krough that way.

[HibLaGrande]

pretty sharp stone you got there, krough

[Hauntiholik]

WOW! I glad to see the finished stone krough. I love the idea of the skelly sticking out of it.

[Sinister]

Krough, I'm going to have to get you to make my actual honest-to-God tombstone for me, buddy. That one there kicks ass on so many different levels. Two thumbs way, way up! :cool: :xbones:

[DeathTouch]

I know bad place to put this but it looks like krough has some followers.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f12/gopherdust/P4230004.jpg

Pictures by gopherdust - Photobucket

[Blackwidow]

Nice work Krough, that tombstone is excellent!

[krough]

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the comments, they do encourage me.

DT please try and find a larger image to hijack my entry thread with. LOL.

[DeathTouch]

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the comments, they do encourage me.

DT please try and find a larger image to hijack my entry thread with. LOL.

Opps I thought it was smaller than that. I am truly sorry krough.(While sticking his Tongue out)

I fixed the picture. I made it a link to make you happy. Now you owe me.

[Zombie-F]

Opps I thought it was smaller than that. I am truly sorry krough.(While sticking his Tongue out)

I fixed the picture. I made it a link to make you happy. Now you owe me.

Large pictures should be automatically resized by the forums. Didn't that happen for you when it was done loading?

[DeathTouch]

Large pictures should be automatically resized by the forums. Didn't that happen for you when it was done loading?

It did if the window of IE was init smaller to begin with.(It would stay smaller when I opened IE to full size) But when I had IE full size(to start with) it took up a lot of room. I don't know why. It must of did the same for Krough. Is that right Krough?

[krough]

Yeah it was weird, the image all of a sudden last night went to 1200x1600 and 453,000 bytes.

[Zombie-F]

Yeah it was weird, the image all of a sudden last night went to 1200x1600 and 453,000 bytes.

If you click on it, it expands it to the full size. Click it again, and the forum resizes it back down... I think. I can't find a post that has a HUGE image at the moment, so I'm not 100% sure on that.

Anyway, let's move this back on topic... :D

[DeathTouch]

Here we will try to krough wanta be picture. Just to see if that works.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f12/gopherdust/P4230004.jpg

[Dr Morbius]

That is pretty huge.

[Zombie-F]

That is pretty huge.

Ok, but when it's done loading, does it automatically resize itself to a smaller size? If it doesn't, what browser and version of that browser are you using?

[DeathTouch]

That is pretty huge.

Well thank you! LOL.

Well, it looks like it shank its size for me this time. But before it didn't. So I don't know what is going on with that.

[Zombie-F]

It has to be fully loaded before it'll shrink itself down. It initially loads in at full-size and when the forum software detects it is done loading, it will resize it.

[DeathTouch]

I am not sure zombie if the first few times it was fully loaded before. It looked like it was, but maybe it wasn't fully loaded and that is why it didn't shrink.

Sorry Krough for turning your tombstone entry into the Mr. Wizard show. I just wanted to show you others are getting on the Krough band wagon.

[PrettyGhoul]

Krough your tombstone is awesome, I love the skeleton breaking up and out, it looks really great! :D

[Dr Morbius]

Krough always comes up with really great designs..and on the fly, too!

[IshWitch]

I love skellies! This one is so cute! In an evil sort of way. Bwahahahaha!
:)

[IshWitch]

To make it even scarier, our son picked out "Irish Mist" from Home Depot for his room when we painted it (about 6 years ago).
We still have some. Now I have a new use for it!

[darryl]

Just wanted to say good work as usual.

[Sickie Ickie]

Now this is nice. Straight out of surrealism, the skeleton walks from beyond using the tombstone as a vortex between worlds...heh...perhaps I'm reading too much into it.

[Hellrazor]

Man these stones are good! I cant wait to push the envelope with some of my tombstones someday...

[Haunted Neurons]

Another great one, there sure is a lot of talent on this board!

[SpookyDude]

Excellent! Well done Krough - might just have to make one of those myself :)

[ScareFX]

Great entry krough. It's got your style written all over it. :)

[Fangs]

Ohhhh yah!
Did i mention that is sweet krough? :)