Hello all!
I found this site in my hunt for more spookytown info and I I have since setup camp and moved in. Halloween is always so much more exciting when you have others to discuss and share it with.
I have been collecting Spookytowm pieces for 7 or 8 years now I believe, and have amassed a small world of buildings. However, every year the setup disappoints me as I wait too long and I don't leave myself enough time to come up with something better than a black fabric base with some fake moss strewn about and the one or two lemax foam bases I've picked up over the years.
Every year I see pictures of other people's collections, and every year I vow that the following year I will finally do my collection justice. I've just browsed photos from last years Halloween and was simply amazed by some of the sets posted here.
This year I discovered that Dept 56 has some very interesting premade platforms. I just picked up their Foggy Point platform, as well as a large mountain that appears to have been carved pretty well.
The primary problem here is.... I have no idea where to start. I checked the tutorials subforum but wasn't able to locate anything specifically geared towards halloween town landscaping (but I probably just missed it).
Ultimately, I will be doing several environments. The old west, a carnival, and a more traditional halloween style overgrown cemetary with abandoned/haunted houses area. I'm decent with electronics and wiring, so I plan to embed lots of ambient lighting into the base to help accentuate the various features. I'm also curious about installing a running river through it using a pump system. I was thinking I could use a clear base for the river to flow through lined with led lights to be able to give the river a spooky green or red glow. I'm also looking into a way to put a multifeed hose on the end of a fog machine and rub small tubes to various places in the landscape. Ideally this would allow a slow stream of fog to crawl across the graveyard or run down he side of the larger mountain. But before I can worry about all the FX, I need an actual landscape to work with.
Would someone be kind enough to point me in the proper direction to begin researching this sort of thing? Somewhere that discusses techniques like foam cutting, foam painting, etc? Thank you =)
I found this site in my hunt for more spookytown info and I I have since setup camp and moved in. Halloween is always so much more exciting when you have others to discuss and share it with.
I have been collecting Spookytowm pieces for 7 or 8 years now I believe, and have amassed a small world of buildings. However, every year the setup disappoints me as I wait too long and I don't leave myself enough time to come up with something better than a black fabric base with some fake moss strewn about and the one or two lemax foam bases I've picked up over the years.
Every year I see pictures of other people's collections, and every year I vow that the following year I will finally do my collection justice. I've just browsed photos from last years Halloween and was simply amazed by some of the sets posted here.
This year I discovered that Dept 56 has some very interesting premade platforms. I just picked up their Foggy Point platform, as well as a large mountain that appears to have been carved pretty well.
The primary problem here is.... I have no idea where to start. I checked the tutorials subforum but wasn't able to locate anything specifically geared towards halloween town landscaping (but I probably just missed it).
Ultimately, I will be doing several environments. The old west, a carnival, and a more traditional halloween style overgrown cemetary with abandoned/haunted houses area. I'm decent with electronics and wiring, so I plan to embed lots of ambient lighting into the base to help accentuate the various features. I'm also curious about installing a running river through it using a pump system. I was thinking I could use a clear base for the river to flow through lined with led lights to be able to give the river a spooky green or red glow. I'm also looking into a way to put a multifeed hose on the end of a fog machine and rub small tubes to various places in the landscape. Ideally this would allow a slow stream of fog to crawl across the graveyard or run down he side of the larger mountain. But before I can worry about all the FX, I need an actual landscape to work with.
Would someone be kind enough to point me in the proper direction to begin researching this sort of thing? Somewhere that discusses techniques like foam cutting, foam painting, etc? Thank you =)
