[Lagrousome]

Here is the finished headstone for our cemetery. Our friend's last name is Huston, so the obvious........They love it! I'm working on some more for other friends that want to see their name in lights (well, those spooky blue lights with fog billowing around)
I have 24 stones cut out, now to just find the time to carve them.....
There's approximately 999 hours until Halloween! Better get the dremmel out!

 

[dave the dead]

and yet again....the detailed stuff....ughhh.....I have to learn to be patient and make some stones with cool lettering!
Nice.

(and BTW...this is for that pile of scrounged foam that you taunt us with....:finger: )

 

[Lagrousome]

Lol!

 

[Moon Dog]

Did you carve those leaves on either side of the H by hand???

 

[Lagrousome]

MD~ used clip art printed out and then traced over with an x-acto knife, then dremmeled out.

 

[Moon Dog]

Very nice work... very steady hand it looks like!

 

[Lagrousome]

Oooohh, don't look too close then MD! LOL

 

[Moon Dog]

Don't worry... I'll never tell!

 

[Richie]

Another member I'd be happy just to purchase the rejects from.

 

[Ghostess]

Love the tombstone... lol... nice pun!

 

[buckaneerbabe]

That looks great! Love the font you used too.

 

[spideranne]

Excellent job!

 

[Hawks Hill Haunter]

Lagrousome - what do you to paint them with? and do you run into problems with the paint eating or melting the foam? How did you get the "fading" down look - did you sandpaper that off?

 

[Lagrousome]

A gray ext. latex I mixed using my ext. latex black and ext. latex white. Letters are the black and then the white ext. latex I just dipped the brush, brushed most of it off on cardboard, then swiped it on the stone. I sealed it with Spar Urethane (kinda testing to see how it will hold up) From what I have learned, as just don't use the spray cans on the foam and you should be ok.

 

[abrcrombe]

Awesome work, can you come to my haunt and do some??

 

[Lagrousome]

Lol!

 

[Bauton]

That stack of pink foam isn't holding up your garage is it?

 

[Hawks Hill Haunter]

Thanks for the info, Lagrousome!

Nicely done!!!!

 

[Sickie Ickie]

That stack of pink foam isn't holding up your garage is it?

LOL I was thinking the same thang!

 

[tcarter]

and yet again....the detailed stuff....ughhh.....I have to learn to be patient and make some stones with cool lettering!
Nice.

(and BTW...this is for that pile of scrounged foam that you taunt us with....:finger: )

DOn't worry about detail. Go for VERY weathered, something like this,

that way you can get way without carving letters, and have a cool looking stone. by the way, I think that photo is kind of wierd, with the kid, I just like the tombstones.