mr. grimsley, love what you did in your graveyard. one of the many reasons this is my favorite thread. sounds like we have more treat to loook forward to next year.
halloween, that must have taken some work, but well worth it.
ondeko, very nice. you have some nice markers there and your crypts are awesome. maybe you could add some ghouls and play with colored lighting. anyway, looks better than mine.

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hallorenescene,
Thanks for the feedback. I have plans for a vampire queen [my wife calls her "the Blood Countess"] static prop that will stand in a large mausoleum that will eventually be shared with a FCG. I plan to change the lighting. Fog would have helped immensely. I got a 1000w fogger yesterday so that's now covered. One of my cheap blue spots had the color coating compromised [stored in the shed over winter in Minnesota might have done that] and was more white than blue this year. Of course I didn't bother to check until right before I needed lights. I'll replace it and add another green or red low wattage spot on that left side. [[Doh! that should have read: "on that stage left side"]] I also should have remembered to place the spots behind something so i didn't get visual blow back. Doh! I found like the inexpensive 3 LED solar spots more than I thought I would. They provide a cool dim white light and I'm not restricted by extension cords in my placement. that'll help a lot when we finally move the graves to the front hill. I wanted the '09 cemetery to have a head and shoulder section of ground-breaker to go with one of the hands, but I did'nt have foam scraps big enough for a neck and shoulders and I the wig block I wanted to use for the head is actually storing a quartet of leather fairy masks that didn't find new owners this year. Here's a pic of those masks. The leather loses shape if not supported so I couldn't pull the wig block and zombify [is that a word?] it. they were a lot of work and I don't want to damage the paint job by soaking them again to reshape. As for being 'better' than anybody else's, this started with one cheesy commercial tombstone that fell over a lot under a too bright too white porch light on 2nd floor apartment balcony.

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Hallorenescene, thanks for the comments! Yeah I'm very happy with how it came out this year even though I didn't get some things done. I do have the rough tombstone cut out for D.Ed Ringer, so I will definitely work on the other stuff throughout the year this time!

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We added a mausoleum this year to house the FCG. I painted it Halloween morning so I didn't get to the moss and additional aging colors. It was a fun year with great weather and record TOTs for us.

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Here's mine =)

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WOW! MrNightmare, did you build all of those monuments? The angel is beautiful!

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spiderrider, sweet looking set up. I doubt anybody but you would notice the missing moss and aging

curlgoddess, you have a nice cemetery, too. How deep is the crypt? The photo angle is oblique rnough that i can only catch what looks like a black light glow from inside. Is it a FCG in there or do you have something else?

I'm looking forward to next year already. We got the workshop windows put in the blind side of the garage that faces the street today so I'll have a couple good places for scary stuff that isn't at all weather proof. I'll get power run out to where I can start using the steep slope in the front yard as my main stage. by the end of the week. My Other Half really wants the cemetery moved from the side yard to the front--where she can't see it from our bedroom window.

All these amazing photos they all look great!

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albums - http://www.halloweenforum.com/album.php?u=20141

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Wow!! Sadly, I can't go gross due to have lost of todlers in my neighborhood.

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