Fall Cemetery aka the zombie playground

So this is where the zombies are all coming from! I finally decided on how to finish the one short board edge for Gray Haven. I was going to make a separate board in the future that was just a cemetery, but this worked out nice to put it here. On with the pictures!

Here is the overview shot. Lets look at the details a little closer...

 

 

Zooming in a bit on the left side, we see the main concentration of dead folk. The tree is removable for storage, and the gates are magnetized for storage or when they get smashed down in-game by the undead hordes.

 

Zooming in more we see the detailed weathering on the grave markers. I make full size prop headstones for Halloween, and these use some of the same methods for painting, only smaller.  

 

 

Back out and move to the right, and we find the entrance, some more dead folk and the entrance to the mausoleum.

 

Here's the mausoleum and the back part of the property. About this part of the board: I put the power module for the lighted sign (seen in a bit) inside the mausoleum. I was going to run the cord under the grass, but had forgotten about the pumpkin patch the crazy old groundskeeper had planted. I had to put in a electrical "drop" over the patch. I tried to hide/integrate it the best I could, I think the crows help. Why is there a casket out back? Maybe the groundskeeper has his garden tools in there. Or fertilizer...

 

This is the welcome sign that sits outside the cemetery. It lights up, that's why I needed the power cord run. The little mound and rock is there just as a natural element.

 

 

I took these two shots to help if you needed a little perspective.

 

 

The Grass is teddy bear fur, all the leaves, bushes, and vines are Woodland Scenics products. I used lots of Sil-for clump foliage as well as dyed birch seeds. I picked up the walls and fence at Menards during Halloween last year. The pumpkins are from JTT, the headstones are from Renedra and GW.

 

Questions and Comments are welcome!

 

Papa Spanky



Grass made from skinned Easter Bunny

No not really. (My kids would never forgive me) I have been experimenting with a technique I have seen on other sites using fake rabbit fur to make grass. I tried it, with pretty good results.

Here are four test swaths I messed around with.
A. I shaved the hair with a 1/4" electric razor and painted it with dark greens and light browns for a fall, winter grass effect.
B. unshaven, painted green with light green highlights.
C. shaved, 1/8" this time, light greens and browns with yellow-green highlights, lightly sprinkled with med. green static grass
D. same colors as C, 1/4" shave and no static grass

I wanted grass that looked like a maintained lawn, so B was out. But I loved the way it looks for long grass and will be using it in the future.

My favorite was C:

The static grass was just enough to hide the matted fur look. Right now this is where I'm going to use the grass in Gray Haven. I do feel a cemetery board addition coming in the future.