It looks like a real cemetery.Beautiful.
He contacted me yesterday I would love to have everything.But will have to add a few each year.He stated in his email he will be at the midwest haunters convention.I wish I could go but the dates don't suit this year.Thanks Kristian.
Wow, you really do have some amazingly realistic tombstones! Very authentic looking. I need to weather my purchased stones to get a more authentic look during the day. Mine look decent at night, but your spacing is much more realistic. I've spent some time recently at old cemeteries to get a better feel for realistic weathering on stones, and your yard doesn't look too dissimilar from the older ones I visited.
I've been trying more for that old, crowded, haunted feel in mine. I have pics at the link below. I also prefer a more realistic look without too many zombie props. I haven't spent more than $35 on any one stone, but some of those look worth much more than the ones I have. I'd love to get some that were as realistic as yours though.
So, I'm curious... what colors do you use for lighting? I used to use green for an erie look, but based on suggestions from folks here, I'm now using blue for that moonlit feel. It looked much more realistic last year over the previous.
Wow, you really do have some amazingly realistic tombstones! Very authentic looking. I need to weather my purchased stones to get a more authentic look during the day. Mine look decent at night, but your spacing is much more realistic. I've spent some time recently at old cemeteries to get a better feel for realistic weathering on stones, and your yard doesn't look too dissimilar.
I've been trying more for that old, crowded, haunted feel in mine. I have pics at the link below. I also prefer a more realistic look without too many zombie props. I haven't spent more than $35 on any one stone, but some of those look worth much more than the ones I have. I'd love to get some that were as realistic as yours though.
So, I'm curious... what colors do you use for lighting? I used to use green for an erie look, but based on suggestions from folks here, I'm now using blue for that moonlit feel. It looked much more realistic last year over the previous.
Glad to hear you guys/ladies are so into graveyards!!
I too am now going to do some 'crowding' in my graveyard, as I now have alot more stones than what is seen in my pictures. I have enough where I can do some 'family plots', i.e. crowd little sections with stones.
Not to brag, but, yes, my stones are woth much more than $35. Hauntedheadstones.com made me one that cost almost $600.00. I think it's worth it, as the stone is close to six feet tall, and weights about 100 pounds. I wanted larger, but the guy said it would be too heavy for him to handle.
Here's the good part about cheaper (beaded foam) stones: I used 3 or 4 of them this past year, and placed them carefully. I cut one up so it only sticks out of the ground 5 or six inches, and its cut on an angle, so it looks like it has sunken into the ground. I hate to admit it, but it looked like one of my most realistic stones this past year!! ( i had covered it lightly with plaster, and then repainted it to look better)
As far as lighting goes, I have only used blue and red lights. The blue I use to shine on the stones, and then red and blue are used to shine up against tree trunks, or into the leaves themselves, which looks creepy too. I don't use too much lighting in the graveyard because I also use 8 100W flood lights that are hooked up to a lightening machine (I think it's a terror syndicate model). What looks so cool is that when it's not lightening, you can't see all the stones. When the lightening goes off, the whole front yard lights up, and thats when people realize how big the graveyard is! That's usually one of my biggest compliments.
Sorry to go on about all this...but as you can see, I love my graveyard!
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very nice stones. would love to have some of those
Apparently, some online stores have some from Hauntedheadstones.com. I believe Nightmarefactory was selling them. Also, there is a store in NY city called abracadabra that had some the last time I was there (abracadabrasuperstore.com)
I'm going to take some close up photos soon and will post them as well so you can see the details.
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wow! your grave yard does look authentic. the look and placement is just right. how far apart do you set your stones? those are some pretty nice dead guys. i would use them. just put them out at night and take them in early in the morning! i love your house as well!
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That's what I'm talkin' about, Kristian. That's how it's suppose to be done. I'm hoping to have an equally real-to-life cemetery this year. I'm also going to bring in a bunch of 7-8 foot dead trees and brush from the woods near my house and plant them among the tombstones for some added age. And I'm turning my house into an old, abandoned chapel. Looks great.
BRILLIANT!!
THAT'S how I can mask the house and keep it "in character"! I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to change the house in a fitting manner. After all, why would there be a house in a cemetery, right? And my house is white! The converson wouldn't be that hard.
Sorry, got excited there. Now back to the gravestone photos... those look fantastic!
Rob, I would be glad to put together a little tutorial on the steeple if you would like. I have painted it, but haven't taken any pictures of it completed yet. I'm also going to change the square windows to a gothic shape (kind of a pointed arch) with stained glass (colored plastic film from party city) and I'm gonna' back light the windows so you can see the stained glass at night. I was going to board the windows up until I saw The Davis GraveYard. Also another spectacular cemetery. They did some stained glass effects on their facade and it made me forget all about the boarded-up windows. Then, I'll have about a million and a half pounds of spanish moss and spider webs (misted with gray spray paint. I don't think white webs look all that real) all over the "chapel".................GOD, I've got alot to do!!
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