[cmerli]

With all my new free time I was planning a few Halloween projects.One thing I wanted to do was build a lighted tombstone for the front row of my graveyard. The ones is the back rows I can light with LEDs behind the front stones but the ones in the front rows need to have their own light so I do not need to place lights in front of them. Post your pictures of your lighted tombstones. Here is one I did last year.

 

[JW Halloween]

Nice work!

 

[tcooper]

Very Cool! The possibilities with shadows endless. Thanks for the pic.

 

[dmosher626]

Will they be behind bars Or out in the open? If they are behind a gate, bars or a fence, maybe try running small led strios on the back of the bars to send shadow light across the fronts (aimed back toward the stones).

 

[Engineerchic]

My plan for this year is to make lots of flickering LED candles from PVC pipe (Stiltbeast tutorial on YouTube) and put them near the tombstones. I hope that I can aim them slightly back and the light will wash up the stone face.

Last year I used solar powered lights that were hidden from view by the posts of my cemetery fence and I added gels to change their color. But you get a lot of spread onto other things, like your house Some of this light on the porch is from a flood light in the yard, I hope to disguise that with a fake tree stump this year to act like barndoors (those metal flippers that let you narrow the light field). I think the candles will be fairly inexpensive to make, say $5 for a cluster of 3.