Greencapt's Tombstone Entry

[GreenCapt]

I give you....

DRACO MORTIS

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/CastleVonStuben/Halloween%202006/Draco%20Mortis%20Tombstone/draco_006.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/CastleVonStuben/Halloween%202006/Draco%20Mortis%20Tombstone/draco_007.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/CastleVonStuben/Halloween%202006/Draco%20Mortis%20Tombstone/draco_008.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/CastleVonStuben/Halloween%202006/Draco%20Mortis%20Tombstone/draco_004.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/CastleVonStuben/Halloween%202006/Draco%20Mortis%20Tombstone/draco_010.jpg

Now for the sweet and down-low:

Materials and Cost

$1.25 1" blue foam, 2'x4' piece (bought damaged sheet for 1/2 price at Lowes, used 1/4 of it)
$0.75 Great Stuff foam (three squirts prorated)
$0.30 glue (prorated)
$1.00 paint (prorated, bought gallon of 'oops' paint for gray basecoat, all detailing done with model paints I dug out of my closet)
$0.00 Spanish moss (grabbed it off a nearby tree!)

$3.30 TOTAL

Tombstone is original design, hand drawn on sheet of foam and cutter using a Styro Wonder Cutter and detailed with woodburning gun.

I'll post some in-progress pics to my Photobucket soon, but for now there are already some other views and detail shots:

Draco Mortis Tombstone pictures by CastleVonStuben - Photobucket

[Zombie-F]

Cool. Great job with the photography too.

[Sinister]

Looks like something you would see on The Addams Family. Very rockin' this one.

[DeathTouch]

Ohhhh, that was a good idea. Very nice concept. I was working on something like that but my dog got it. It had better scratch marks if you get my drift.

[GreenCapt]

Well Sinister I *have* been told that I'm creepy and kooky at times. ;)

Z-F, I had a lot of fun shooting the stone- how do you like what I call my 'Evil Dead' tree? :D See the face?

[Frighteners Entertainment]

Very good, nice lighting GC!

[Sickie Ickie]

I like the base of the blue foam. Unfortunately I can't find it around here.

Nice job with the stone. I especially like the claw and crack marks.

[Dr Morbius]

Probably one of the most original stone designs I've ever seen. I like this one!

[Mr Unpleasant]

I agree Doc very unique design. I like it mucho!

[GreenCapt]

Thanks everybody! I tried to do something that walked the line between possibly realistic and fantastical... imagine hiking through Romania and stubling across this deep in the forest... :)

Oh, and I forgot one of my 'orb' pictures of it:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/CastleVonStuben/Halloween%202006/Draco%20Mortis%20Tombstone/draco_027.jpg

[Dr Morbius]

Orbs...hehe

[Otaku]

Nice original design, GreenCapt! The voting is going to be very difficult!

[ScareFX]

Nice work GreenCapt. :)

[Fangs]

Wow! Cool! I was wondering what you were up to with the 'wings" Hehehehe. :)

[Hella]

It a dragon, of course I love this one..lol Very creative GreenCapt.

[GreenCapt]

It a dragon, of course I love this one..lol Very creative GreenCapt.

LOL- When I first got the dragon inspiration Hella I had thought to use the quote you have in your sig. I used to have that bumper-sticker and thought it would have be funny on a stone... though it would have significantly changed the tone of the project. :D

[TipoDeemin]

That's a great design, GreenCapt! Your photography of it is great, too. I especially like that last pic. If I could get a single stone in my graveyard to look that nice, I'd consider Halloween a roaring success. ;)

[GreenCapt]

That's a great design, GreenCapt! Your photography of it is great, too. I especially like that last pic. If I could get a single stone in my graveyard to look that nice, I'd consider Halloween a roaring success. ;)

Three words... tripod, tripod, tripod....

well maybe four... alcohol....

("ish the BESH haunt housh I *hic* ever did! Wheresh all the trish'er'treashers?"

"Uh, dear... I appreciate your effort in setting all this up, but it IS July and you're just a little bit drunk") ;)

thanks! :D

[Frighteners Entertainment]

Too funny GC!

[heresjohnny]

Very nice. I love the claw marks at the bottom, and you're pictures are great.

[GreenCapt]

I'm curious- does the blue light I used in my photographs make it look like I didn't paint the blue foam?

[Dr Morbius]

You painted it?

LOL! Actually, your last picture without blue light shows you did.