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I needed a little something-something to house my Flying Crank Ghost [FCG close-up]. So I built me a crypt! Gothic Arches The first thing I knocked out were the gothic arches by carving them from styrofoam and enhancing the the pieces with the appropriate layers of latex paint. Pillars The half inch thick plywood and inner two-by-four frames for the two front pillars are scrap and were obtained, with permission, from a nearby construction site. Measurements: 8 feet tall and 14.5 inches wide Primary Arch I purchased the quarter inch thick plywood for the primary arch because this section had to consist of one piece. The arch has a height of four feet with the peak bringing the crypts height to 10.5 feet with the celtic cross adding atleast another 3 feet for a total height of about 14 feet. Latex Paint Job First I rolled a light gray, then sea sponged on; green, black, white, and dark gray. |
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To carry the FCG and hold the facade in place I built a skeletal frame of two-by-fours with a full sheet of plywood on each side with some miscellaneous sheets of plywood across the top and all covered with one tarp. I put together a wire diagram of the structure with some measurements. It took me a total of about 6 hours to slap it together and my fingers were crossed for the 5 days it stood in the hopes that it wouldn't fall. Luckily for me, the gods of wind had that week off. Gargoyles The gargoyles are hallow blown plastic with a cost of about $12 each. I built some Holsters for my Gargoyles. I clipped the plastic gargoyles to some dark gray painted plywood. The plastic tab between the horns is sandwiched between the two layers of plywood. There's a small stock of wood attached to the plywood between the hooves. Again, I sandwiched the plastic with a small piece of plywood and drove a screw through the plywood, through the plastic and into the wood stock. Attaching the gargoyles to the pillars: I screwed together 3 layers of two-by-four, each block was attached to the top of each of the pillars and then I screwed the gargoyles plywood to the block. Lighting Lighting was minimal. I had a single light with a C-9 bulb at the base of each gargoyle and one four foot black light behind the La Llorona styrofoam to bathe my FCG. Audio I placed a CD player just behind a pillar and it was set on repeat playing the Midnight Syndicate's Born of the Night. |
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