[Sificts]

Hi all, This is my first post and first year doing a SpookyTown display. It is in my unfinished basement so excuse the surrounding area. It is a small wine cellar in the back of the basement I have knowledge working with foam and carving mountains, hills, etc. What I am looking for are interesting ideas in terms of scenery. The area I have to work with is 5 1/2' x 3' L-shape. I am thinking of having a mountain/hill on the corner of the 3 foot section overlooking the main town (3 foot section is on the left side). I want to incorporate a main strip of buildings, a stream, and a graveyard. Let me know what you guys think! See pictures below:

 

[Sificts]

UPDATE: So I had some free time today and decided to get to work on the scenery. I made a riser, added some stairs, and made a rock face for the house to sit on. Just added a coat of white paint to cover up any foam, will eventually use leopard technique for final coloration and turn them into real rocks! See pictures below. (Sorry for poor quality pictures)


General overview from above


View from left side showing rockface


Left side again showing a higher view


Stone stairs waiting to come to life!


View from right side showing rock face and stairs

Stay tuned for more if you are interested!

 

[Ween12amEternal]

Great start! Looking forward to updates

 

[Melinoe]

I love SpookyTown displays, I can't wait to see more of your progress! Best of luck!

 

[Madame Leota]

Can't wait to see the progress! I've been a spooky town collector for about 10 years and have a lot of fun with it but I've never done any sort of permanent display. Looks like you're off to a good start!

 

[Sificts]

Update: Sorry for the long time between updates, have been busy and was on vacation last week. Quite a lot has been done to the display. Finished all risers, stairs, path, wall, and cemetery area. I also added the first layer of ground cover in a few areas. See pictures below!


So this is where I am at right now. You can see the main cliff features have been completed and colored. Water has also been added to the stream.


This is the main cliff area. Stairs and rocks have been colored.


View from bottom of cliff stairs


Overhead view of main cliff area


Sorry for awful lighting here. Water has been poured. Used FAMOWOOD Glaze Coat . I allowed bubbles to form in certain areas as I will be adding some type of creature coming out of the water.


Overview of downtown area. Adding risers to backside to hold two houses/buildings. Finished up stairs and painted rocks. Also you can see the path I carved into foam.


Close up view of path, downtown area. Sorry for messy picture. Glue and excess groundcover was in picture before I cleaned it up


Cemetery area with grave dug out.


Cemetery wall carved out and also grave in shot.

These are all the updates for now. Hoping to have more done by end of weekend so stay tuned!

 

[Sificts]

http://www.amazon.com/FAMOWOOD-Glaze-Coat-Epoxy-Clear/dp/B008G8ON9W is the product used for water.

 

[GobbyGruesome]

Looks pretty awesome! You know what you're doing!!!

 

[Shadowbat]

Nice! Can't wait to see your completed set up.

 

[Sificts]

UPDATE! Sorry for the long time since the last update. I finished quite a bit. All scenery is done, now just looking to add in some detail pieces as Halloween draws closer!
Overview of scene


Cliff stairs complete leading up to cliff house

surrounding area needs a lot of work and detail

this area is pretty much complete. I like how this turned out ,might just add some more trees behind house to set it back in the woods more.

bone bridge leading to house.

skelly hanging out by water strumming guitar.

Hemlock's Nursery view from below

stairs leading to bone cookout, nursery, cupcake factory, and seating area

close up of the BONEBQ

looking down path

path again

path again

final path

CUPCAKES!

seating area above graveyard

graveyard view from seats

graveyard eye level

road to pumpkin patch

open grave with red LED (LED is off)

pumpkin patch entrance with home made fence

 

[Sificts]

patch

patch 2

 

[Spookywolf]

Nice set up! I love how you take your close-up pics so that everything is at eye level. Makes you really feel like you're inside the village. Good job!

 

[sneakykid]

Wow!!

And all my mom does is put them up wherever we have room in the living room, but you're going all out with your designs - well done!

 

[GobbyGruesome]

Yup, really looking amazing! Love the detailed stone carving. We find that it's the shrubbery that makes things start to feel more alive. Shrubbery FTW!

 

[Jenn&MattFromPA]

This is looking great! I especially love the house in the woods with the birdhouse - your plan to add more trees there will make it even better! Great job!

 

[Sificts]

UPDATE! added a number of items. See pics below. Close to being finished. Filled in most empty space and added lights. Will post lighted pics later or in a few days. Overview of village

added gargoyles on top side of stairs and spooky tree at bottom



Dept. 56 tree here

added skull to middle of band and dancers. I made these into lights by inserting led's into the skulls. They give off quite a bit of light which I will take pictures of then post

awful lighting I know and my shadow is covering, but here is a grim reaper in the pond area

house area with skull lights and bat bath added

closeup of bat bath

more grillers and a witch with a potion area



gargoyles on sides of steps

bushes, boneyard fence, skelydog chasing cat up tree(dept. 56 item)

boneyard overview

boneyard landing with ghouls(dollar tree) hanging around

closeup of skelydog chasing cat

two views looking down main street. I like how these came out.



That's all for now. Stay tuned for future updates with lighted pieces. Looking forward to taking those pics and getting them up so look for updates either later tonight or sometime this week. Thanks guys.