Thread: Omenwood Hotel (Night Spa and Funeral Parlor)

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Awesom looking stuff!

Progress on the Hotel sign. Employed a "bored" teenager with a Sharpie.




Never done this before, but I'm pretty happy with the way it is coming out so far. I carve the big section of the letters out with the utility knife, do some detail work and thinner parts with the soldering iron, then lightly pass a butane torch in the cavity to "cauterize" the foam, and melt away all of the "fray" and "crumbs".

I'll paint the cavity with flat black, then roll the whole face with a med-light gray paint, then dab on some contrasting color with a painters sponge...

Stay tuned, more pics at the photbucket site, URL below...

I painted the reception desk. I spray painted the black in the recesses, then rolled on the gray with a foam roller, then dry brushed on some aging and misted some water. I'll probably age it a bit more, maybe some pea green, or dull red dabbed on with a sponge.

The top surface I rolled with gray and black paint that was not mixed together in the tray much at all.



Finished the first overlay roll of paint on the sign. It needs some more detail work, aging and "mossing." I want it to look REAL old. The flickering vacancy sign will dangle below it with one of its chains broken.

Pic is fuzzy, didn't have the camera set right.

That is looking GREAT Johnsherry! Can't wait to see more pictures as it all comes together!

Did some aging on the main sign, and added some lights. They are landscape lights on painted copper tubing and screwed to a brace on the back of the sign. They have 5 watt halogen G4 bulbs in them, but I power them with a 9 volt adapter, so the light is dim an yellow. I'll get a pic at night once it is on the front of the house. I did a little bit of webbing on it too with my Minions webber.



I am making a bunch of PVC candles by taking apart tealights and hard wiring them. I will be able to turn them on after the blackout with the X10 controller.



So far the RSVP response to the invites has been pretty good. All of the "fun" people are for sure coming, plu s a few "virgins"...... MWwwaahahahaha!!!

Lots more pics at my Photobucket, link below...

Wow! You sure are coming up with a lot of creative props! I LOVE the PVC candles! I am needing to make a trip to Home Depot and I might add these to my list of projects if you don't mind me stealing the idea...!

Some "ice pipe" tests:





Trying up high to see if the fog "drops". It does!



Built a luggage/valet cart out of scrap plywood, PVC and the wheels from the kids wagon. I think I spent less than $10 on it. Rolled the PVC with poorly mixed black and gray paint. This will go on the front porch with some suitcases, and something hanging from it. Any ideas? Was thinking of an old garment bag with my 3 foot skeleton poking out...



Getting carried away with PVC candles, although all of these ones I cut pipe for in '07 for our last party. Now I am hard wiring the LED flicker circuits and will run them off an AC adapter. This long board will go up high on a palldium window sill where you can only look up and see them. So I don't need to make "tops" for them...



More pics added to my photo bucket page, see my .sig...

johnshenry -- That is some awesome hotel you are haunting! WOW!

Was the fogger hard to make?

No new pics at the moment (none I have uploaded anyway), but a general update.

"Jam Week" is here. I had to take care of a lot of other stuff this week, so little time for H2009.

Good news is we have a "critical mass" in the RSVP dept, at least 30 people. Some will not show, but I know others who have not responded will come. It is looking like a good crowd.

I got my two Buckys yesterday! Holy crap those things are heavy!

Will start hauling the heavy sound gear up out of the basement this weekend.

I have finally got my "opening" sound track done, and am VERY happy with it. This is the sound effect, a minute or two of lightening and then music slowly fades in. I heard "Planet Claire" on the radio the other night and decided "that is it!" (I'm 47, guests are probably mostly 35-50).

I'll post the lead SFX .mp3 later this weekend for all to hear. Starts with a loud buzz/electric arc then "BANG" and lights out.

Two questions:

1) For those who have used buckys before, how do you post them? I have no problem running screws into their joints, but I don't want them to look like HW store rejects. One will need to sit up behind the check in desk, the other will lay face down on a massage table (Funeral Parlor and Night Spa.....).

2) I have 200 multicolor glow sticks (will do a party for our daughter Nov 1 night also), and for our adult party, we have people coming from 3 distinct social groups; work, church (no we are not Baptists) and "neighborhood". I had this thought about sorting the glow sticks by color and putting them in separate containers at the check in desk, with those names on them. Why? I don't know. Just thought maybe it would be cool if people figured out after the lights went out how to spot each other? Any ideas, maybe a simple game (although I am not too keen on "games" at our party...).

More pics to come this weekend. I have dyed over 100 yds of chees cloth and am starting to hang it...

Other funny thing, last night I totally convinced our 14 year old daughter that the Buckys were real skeletons from real people... and I think she still believes it. I told her that they were from people who donated their bodies to science in Asia (as were were untaping the bubble wrap off of them). She held up a leg next to her and siad "he was short, or was it um , him, a her...?"

She is still gullible.....

OMG... I am super inspired!!!!