Thread: Deadman St. Haunted Graveyard 2010

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This year, being only my second year, the graveyard saw quite a few additions. Some of them major, others much more subtle.

The biggest was the addition of a dragon I built. He even managed to find dinner! I personally love him!







I also upgraded the fresh grave flower planter this year:


And added barn wood shutters and boarded up window.




I also added two new skeletons and upgraded about half of my gravestones form last year. I'll get pictures of them today.

For this year's light show I was able to add quite a bit more fixtures and do some cool new effects. Here are a bunch of pictures from that.

First off the control center in my room. This summer I wired the entire house with internet and also ran audio and lighting control cables for the installed equipment. Being able to leave my computer in my room sure is convenient!

I also updated my headless horseman scarecrow, completely repainting it with waterproofing and then re-dry brushing it with more colors. It looks A LOT better this year.


A cool new effect I added this year was a fixed mirror ball to create a star feild type of effect. I would LOVE to do this with laser, but it's just not feasible right now.


The wind actually cooperated really well last night, so I decided to add some fog, and here's the result. It looks much better in my opinion.














Then there is the always awesome bird bath of doom!

ooohhh thoses are wicked!!!!!!!! fangtastic job!!!!

Wow it all looks great1
I love the props-lights and the fire effect.

Originally Posted by halloween71

Wow it all looks great1
I love the props-lights and the fire effect.

That's real fire. Muhahaha I love propane.

um, WOW! speachless!

Originally Posted by moshrider1000

That's real fire. Muhahaha I love propane.

lol cool at least nothing melted ... right????

Here are some more photos from Halloween day during the day. To start off an over view of how I had everything set up. My Flying Crank Ghost is off to the side in the pine trees. She is SO CREEPY over there because it is nice and dark and she stand out very well!





Here is my Count Dracula Tomb Stone. I built the stone last year but didn't carve the name into it until this year. I am VERY happy with this one!


Here is the Pirate Stone with a grave robber.


Someone didn't dig quite deep enough.


The Headless Horseman's grave. I didn't actually finish this stone, but I'm tempted to just leave it the way it is. I think it adds to the creepy old feel.


One of my roommates created this font just for Ichabod.





The weather was absolutely BEAUTIFUL here with NO wind at all so fog just hung and hung Halloween night. So here are a few more photos of the light show with some fog for effect.




Last but not least the Bucky that I coated in Tide so he glows under black light. I should have recoated him after hanging.


What do you all think?

I finally got the video of the light show to upload! Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-3S4X7E65k

(The preview picture sucks, I selected a new one but it takes youtube time to process the request).

OMG, this was great! I love the birdbath of doom and the fresh grave flower planter. Very creative. The lighting was wonderful.