#1: Skull + Bones Cemetery Walls
Maker: Ted Lester
Ted Lester is based in Manchester Tennessee where he and his wife work occasionally setting up estate sales. Something uniquely suited to lead to some awesome finds.
He’s loved Halloween since he was two and learned he could dress up and beg for candy, but over the last several years the addiction has grown.
In the hunt for first place in an annual Halloween competition, he discovered a love for making corpses and skeleton freaks.
He’s currently working on a large cemetery but first, he’s got to build the wall and entrance. He found an entrance worthy of the cemetery at Home Depot; he just needed the wall. But not just any wall – a wall of bones.
You can follow his progress and other builds on Facebook.
Inside Ted’s Build
Build Details:
The panels are made from 1" foam insulation boards, any skulls and bones he could find, and TONS of spray foam. He sprays the boards with Drylok before the bones get set in place then seals everything with the spray foam. After everything sets he sprays it again with Drylok.
Next, he applies coats of grey wash, which is just water with a little black paint in it, till the desired shade then he dry brushes the skulls and bones white.
The last step is to age and weather everything by lightly grey washing again.
The skull arch is from Home Depot and is painted to match the fence.
To attach the panels to the arches, he cut some of the foam from the front and placed 3" wooden blocks. A 1x3 board was added to the back to screw them together. Then he foamed over the blocks to hide them.
With the added strength, he formed the contour of the arch by laying a panel on a piece of cardboard and tracing the curve. After applying more foam and trimming to roughly fit, he touched up the paint and grey-washed everything to match.
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