I'm going to automate some of my current manually actuated pneumatic props. The kids are just coming too quick to get them all....so i feel some motion sensors in my future for next year.

My biggest issue is lighting. theres a delicate balance in getting the light just right for a cemetary. Almost all of my tombstones have glow in the dark lettering. It looks really good with black lights on them but then it's so dark you can't see the blood, bones and other props that are all laying around.

Colored lights are fine but in order to see the words on the tombstones you have to paint them and that takes away from original look.

My tombstones are all concrete. I have made about 3 fiberglass forms that i use. I put foam letters in the form then pore the Quickcrete or Mortar mix into the mold. When cured i pick the foam letters out. It works great. I also put a pole up the middle so i can hammer a 1/2" rod into the ground and set the tombstone over it. Mother nature can't blow my tombstones over.

What i envision on doing is wrapping the yard in two colors of lights....purple and orange, I will also have colored lights and blacklights at each spot. What i will do is have the lights fade in and out between the two colors. It will be purple path lights with blacklights in the graveyard then fade out as the orange and colored lights come on. This way i get the best of both worlds. I can do this with a Prop-1 controller.

I have a wood fence around the entire outside of my yard but my pathway through the center is just metal shephard hooks that hold the light strings. I want to incorporate a plastic chain and some Posts . the posts will have the colored lights and black light built into them so that they are better protected from rain and dew.

any other ideas? What do you have that makes your lighting "pop"