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Mr Chicken love the stump,looks real! Also, love th witch and hag, did you sculpt those, and make the hands too? Also, the crystal ball, is that made? the set up there looks great.
Terra, as usual, I get blown away by your beloved, it is so awesome!

Wow, Terra, that's fantastic! Bet you get a lot of comments from visitors!

bethene, I sculpted both witches' faces out of Model Magic and used rubber monster gloves for their hands (except for the arms of the one at the crystal ball, which I also sculpted). The crystal ball info is here.

Nice Terra!!! I like the Drylock Idea!!! OK then lets simplify the formula and save money, why should we add paint to the drywall mud ?

Couldn't we just thin the dry wall compound down with water, apply, let dry, several coats of Drylock, add highlights with exterior paint?

Thanks so much everyone I just get so excited when I see people talking about MM projects. There is so much potential and people are just starting to figure out neat ways how to use it. I had just ran across an idea to use it to texture walls!

In regards to why use paint at all in the MM mix....good question.. I was thinking it adds some kind of binder element to the drywall compound but I really don't know why it works. So I did a bit of investigating and discovered the MM was originally used for set designers. It can make textures on walls (make it look like stone) and the like. The problem with using plain drywall compound for them is when they move sets around it flakes off when it's flexed or moved around a lot. So, paint is added so the latex in the paint helps to bind the drywall compound so it can flex.

Hope that helps.

DryLock its a great fuax finish on it's own as well. All my tomb stones are MM and so was the giant spider we had a few years ago. This year I came across a can of mis-tinted drylock at Home depot and used it on my crypts rather than muding them it gave a great stone effect. (my oldest is the body in the vault she made teenagers cry this year)

Dude, forget Monster Mud. Move into the 21st Century and use this stuff -

http://www.custombuildingproducts.co...er=diy&lang=en

It sets up fast, so you need to use it in smaller batches. But it dries rock-hard yet still sandable. I've used it over Hardware cloth, a sort of fiberglass mesh. It takes paint well, it's virtually vandal-proof, but it is heavy.

Mixing in a gallon of dark latex paint will offer up some coloring when your panit job get nicked! Many of my MM props get nicks and dings on the and the base color which is ususally a dark grat comes through it generally isnt noticable. On some of the MM props, that base color is my finished color with a few shadows added. Mixing in that gallon sure beats having the stark white drywall mud showing.....As far as moving into the 21st century....no thanks! MM is quick and easy!

Mr Chicken, I absolutely love the witch and hag, those girls are ROCKIN'!!!!! The tree stump is fabulous, too. I've never used MM, but it's about time I started.