WARNING - LONG POST - Well, Anna and I are thinking March 31 for the tombstone make and take - anyone have some thoughts on that? I would want to start pretty early, as there is much to show, and we have to allow for paint to dry....
Penciled in plans are :
Meet up an Anna's place ( in Mannassas somewhere... )
Anne will hopefully see if her local Lowes carries the green insulation foam board and in what thicknesses.
I was also thinking I might run a quick demo on plastic skeleton corpsing if there is time
A 8 by 4 sheet costs between 16 and 25 bucks, depending on the thickness, so, if you are not bringing your own foam board, bring some money to ease the pain, the less you bring, the more chip in money would be a nice touch. a fair amount of tools will be needed too, so, again, same as above.
What tools will we use? What other people do not bring, between Greg and I, we can bring any and all of the following.
- Foam board
- most important - what do you want on your stone?? Name, date, an epitaph, maybe a cross or small statue we can put into the stone, etc
- an idea of what size and shape you want your stone/s to be
- glue gun and spare glue sticks
- an extension cord
- foamboard adhesive and caulk gun
- small paint roller, pan, paint brushes ( small and normal size )
- various grey and black paint
- powered reciprating "jig" saw
- wood burner tool/soder gun
- shureform scraper
- " T " or " L " carpender stick
- Yard stick
- Router or Dremel with router bits
- Heat gun
- Acetone
- An airbrush
- exacto Knife with new blades
- dark sharpie
- something to eat and drink
I will also bring my little boombox and some of my favorite halloween music to listen to when I am doing Halloween stuff.
I know this looks like a lot of stuff, but, some of it is to show the various styles we have used to make the stones, so you can choose the way you want to do them, and depending on the tools you have at home to do your own !