rmwitch
Crypt Keeper

Your stuff is great lots of hard work. You know you can use those awesome big barrels to make a compost bin too.

Nice work on everything! Those witches are great and I love their outfits not to mention the great work you did on those columns!!!

Just curious when you found all that stuff on criags list what section did you look under?

wow, great pictures. thanks for sharing. i see backyardhaunt was there to? did you guys run into each other?

very impressive collection!

the stryofoam was free salvaged from the dump, i believe it came from a construction job or somthing,the pieces are 4 foot by 4 foot and about 8 inches thich some ten or twelve I found historical pics on horse driven hearses and went from there, dollar store items were garden fencing available in summer, the hearse is in 5 pieces i cut out the oval in the centre of the styro to create a window then made a 2 inch ledge and took the excess styro away to create the ledge, once i had the window defined i carved the side pillars bsically went from a photo, and added the plastic skellys onto the pillar and some other dollar store skelly hands. used lawn edging molding from the dollar store to make the top adornment and used parts of that molding for the inside of the adornment of the oval window.found some cheep crown moulding that is foam injected moulding from home depo to make the top portion of the hearse. I carved the ribbon at the bottom and put a latin saying onto it using a dremel tool.Death is only the begginning . i rounded the front and back and used a heat gun on parts of the dollar store lawn edging and formed them to the contours of the syro front . for the front and back used garden edging that had a gothic look ,traced that onto then piece of styro and used a dremel to cut out a hole wher i placed the dollar store skellys, , for this project i used pl 300 that bonds styro together and also will glue the plastic adornments to the styro as well.i reinforced areas with pallet wood also free so that i would be able to take it appart for storage. bonded the wood pieces to those areas . I used a piece of plywood for the bottom to hold it together and one on the top glued to the styro that was carved and rounded. added store bought gargoiles on the top .igave it a heat gun treatment to bond it and age the styro. after that applied a concrete mixture to give it rigidity.then painted using automotive sprayer airbrush and drybrushing

i'm from West Seneca and have been going crazy all over our lawn, house, and garage for the last 10 years or so. this year everything moved to my sisters home in Greece NY. Anyway, i subscribe to a email list from a group of western new yorkers that get together and build props, share ideas, and visit haunted houses. try searching wny-haunters.com i think a few of them are on the forum as well. I know Terror Technologies is, Greg runs a huge walkthrough in his home every year for charity.

I like the Hearse!

I live in the Batavia, NY area. My schedule is pretty busy, but if you are relatively close I should be able to get together for a few hours.