Category: Graves

Grave business.

We’ve got all the Grave caps formed. It’s time to start thinking on how to finish them off. I got some ideas for that. And, we’ll get a good and proper how-to up once some are finished.

Red has won the popularity contest between the colors by a landslide. So, I gotta go get some more lights. And, since my shop vac decided to quit on me, I may as well turn it’s casing into a fog chiller.

3 more headstones also need their finish work done up now, and all of it will need some waterproofing. I think a nice, solid weekend of getting down and getting to work on this stuff is in order.

Maybe we need to throw in making some more skulls for good measure, I bet I could rip through the entire 14lb bag of plaster in a day or so, which would put us at well over 50 new skulls for the year.

Meet the trolls.

I have a problem…

As stated several times, I’ve been wanting to make these ‘tombstones’ to look much more rough than their Guild Wars equivalent. The random nature of tin foil and duct tape allowed me to make the pots rough. For painting the faces, however, I had to enlist the assistance of my resident “unskilled trolls”.

This is a haunter term I heard a while back. Making things look as though they were made by unskilled trolls. I REALLY like symmetry, however. To a point I can’t manage to create things without it bugging me when they are not.

So, meet the unskilled trolls….

Kyle makes the outline

Alec took care of the eyes and ‘noses’

And, we thus have faces created by ‘unskilled trolls’, and a whole lot of me biting my tongue…

I’m quite proud of my talented little ‘unskilled trolls’.

Project Nightfall is coming together nicely. I’ld suspect a rough prototype of a single grave within a week. We’ve set the total to 7 graves, since that is what I have enough stuff for on hand without spending more money.