Yard Haunt in Eastbay California

**aznraverkid** · 10-12-2008,09:40 PM

We spent 6 hours today putting up the fence and the frame work for our 3rd annual yard haunt. This year is the first to have a cemetery fence. Boy was it a lot of work, from driving 45 mins to Lowes, to picking out the furring strips to make sure they're straight, to building a drill press in order to drill holes into the wood. The results? 6 eight section fences. YES!!!... The whole time I'm thinking... at least I don't have to do this again next year! lol

Anyway.. here it is.. Not much, but this is all we could do today. I also touched up my monster mud grim reaper... it started out as just monster mud but didn't like how he turned, so I just draped black cloth over him. This year, I sewed his clothes on, where last year I just pinned him. I'm going to redo this scythe, make his eyes blink and not have the hood closed like you see in the photo.

**rockplayson** · 10-12-2008,09:47 PM

Ah snap that is wicked cool.

Can't wait to see it all. :-)

**creepy crawler** · 10-13-2008,05:29 AM

Looks good keep em coming

**Dark Star** · 10-13-2008,05:32 AM

Really nice job.

**Dark lord** · 10-13-2008,06:29 AM

Originally Posted by aznraverkid

We spent 6 hours today putting up the fence and the frame work for our 3rd annual yard haunt. This year is the first to have a cemetery fence. Boy was it a lot of work, from driving 45 mins to Lowes, to picking out the furring strips to make sure they're straight, to building a drill press in order to drill holes into the wood. The results? 6 eight section fences. YES!!!... The whole time I'm thinking... at least I don't have to do this again next year! lol

Anyway.. here it is.. Not much, but this is all we could do today. I also touched up my monster mud grim reaper... it started out as just monster mud but didn't like how he turned, so I just draped black cloth over him. This year, I sewed his clothes on, where last year I just pinned him. I'm going to redo this scythe, make his eyes blink and not have the hood closed like you see in the photo.

Looks great so far ! were you be in the EB ? & great having another SF bay area haunter here !!,from DL in SSF

**Junit** · 10-13-2008,07:03 AM

Awesome reaper! Did you make him or buy him?

**aznraverkid** · 10-13-2008,10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Dark lord

Looks great so far ! were you be in the EB ? & great having another SF bay area haunter here !!,from DL in SSF

I'm in San Pablo, CA. Moved from Pacifica, CA 2 years ago. Aw, I would've loved to drive by to see your haunt : )

**aznraverkid** · 10-13-2008,10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Junit

Awesome reaper! Did you make him or buy him?

I made him. He's covered with monster mud under neath and I just clothed him with black cloth. He stands 6" tall. I don't like that he's stocky though, next time I would make him skinnier.

Oh, another thing I would like to redo is his hands. I got lazy and instead of making hands out of some material, I just made him wear a glove over wire and pens.