Haunting Your Yard!

Quick progress update since we went out to the shop last night and did a little work.

So I wasn’t sure how happy I would be with the skeleton after it dried and I planned to decide how to proceed next depending on what it looked like.  It dried better than I had hoped, so I think I am going to stick with this method and not start over.

The process I am using is to mix my latex paint with a bit of elmers glue.  I am then painting the skeleton and letting that fully dry.  That way I’m getting a bit of a base on it.  Then I am going back, repainting sections, putting batting over it, and then using the paint brush to “dab” on the paint over the batting.

This is going to be a long, long process and take many layers and repainting since the plastic does not take the paint well.  But I think in the end it won’t be too bad.  Most people won’t get close enough to notice a lot of detail and it will be dark lighting.  I’m just always picky on the detail.  We have decided it looks like a burn victim so it will end up in the slabatorium most likely.

Shane and Dylan made some further progress on my coffin.  They finished putting together the main box, then then sanded it, and started putting on some of the trim and one of the decorative pieces on the side.  Hopefully the rest of the trim can get done before the end of the week and the lid finished so we can stain it Saturday and then put the lining in Sunday.