Oak Lane Cemetery is our Halloween yard display and home haunt located in Hopewell VA. I build most of our props and consider many of them to be works of art. We started around 2007 with just a few store bought tombstones and a couple of really bad props I made myself. Through the haunt community I have learned new techniques and adapted them into props I've made and our haunt has grown and improved greatly over the past few years. I enjoy making things and sharing how to build props with others. Feel free to replicate any of my work for your own use, but I do not give permission in any way for anything I've made to be copied for resale or production.
I have set up a Gofundme for donations to help keep us Haunting at - gofund.me/404e7599
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You said you used all thread to support his body but I’m curious how you connected it all together. Only thing I found was some straight connectors doe all thread. Am I missing something?
There is a PVC tee fitting hidden in the pelvis that the rod bolts into. I just made an Instagram post to show it - instagram.com/p/C9gbBontrZZ/?img_index=1
The freaky fabric is really useful for hiding the fittings and bolts.
This is great! I wonder if using an insulated cooler would work better than a tool box? They come in all shapes and sizes, and they are already insulated and sealed. Curious if there are any downsides?
Insulation doesn't matter. It does not work by making the fog cold and adding ice will reduce the effect and damage the mister. Airtight and watertight is more important.
What model of 3D printer are you using? Which my order do you recommend?
I'm new to 3d printing, but I bought a Bambulabs p1s. Super easy to get great prints with as a beginner.
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Super Cool!
Your attention to detail is amazing...as always. You are an inspiration for me to get busy. Thanks for sharing
I saw your Facebook post and I had assumed you actually used the articulated predator skull model from Hex3D (Patreon 3d modeler)
No, but I'll have to check that one out.
Amazing! I have to say the fact that you took the time to make sure the vertebra were in the right order just lends authenticity to the piece. Looking forward to seeing this year's haunt!
Amazing work, as always. Does the Permablood bond to the silicone in that it is does not come off easily or must care be taken to prevent accidental removal? How flexible is the cloth soaked with the Permablood once it dries? What material did you use to print the skull and spine? How well, do you believe, will this prop stand up to the sun in an outdoor display? Did you design it to be under cover or direct exposure? Thanks for sharing your stellar work.
I don't expect the permablood will stay on the silicone discs very well, unless I get lucky and it stains them. I should have looked for PAINTABLE clear caulk instead of the 100% silicone I used. I expect to have to touch the blood up every year or so. Permablood is somewhat flexible, but the cloth does become rather stiff once it dries. The thicker the coat of permablood is, the stiffer it becomes and the cloth is heavily saturated with it, plus some globs of it I painted on after it dried to hide the cloth texture. This was all printed in matte PLA+ and should be fine for a while in my climate where outdoor temps are between 70 and 90 in october. I have a skull on the dashboard of my truck made from the same material that has been fine for months, even with the recent 100 degree heat. The bones were coated in UV resistant clear coat after the initial staining, before adding the gore, so that will hopefully help too. A dark colored PLA would probably not fare as well. I expect the red Permablood will fade pretty quickly in direct sunlight as all reds do so I'll be placing this in a shaded area to slow that process.
@@OakLaneCemetery Thank you so much for taking the time to reply with such detail. I have not found 100% silicone that was paintable in the past. The ones that I have found that say they are paintable are Siliconized Acrylic. That may not matter in this application, just saying. I was just looking for 100% silicone that was paintable for a specific application at that time. BTW what 3D Printer are you using? I have resisted buying one so far. Very much appreciate you.
Yea, I wasn't thinking and just grabbed the same ole same ole I use for making things in my reptile vivarium. As long as it's clear it wouldn't matter what it was. Hell, I probably could have 3d printed them all from TPA filament with varying degrees of infill to flex properly, but my 3d modeling skills are nonexistent and I wanted to just stiffen the neck because it had too much flex, so I only did about 7 neck vertebrae and printed them as solid TPA with no infill. I tend to plow through builds with whatever I have on hand with little regard for whether or not "it's right". I do, however try to note my mistakes so others can avoid them.
@@OakLaneCemetery Gotcha! What 3D printer are you using?
A Bambulabs P1S
Bloody good stuff my dude.
Fantastic work!)) would also make a great Predator movie prop🎃🔪
Nightmare fuel! Very realistic, you are a true artist. I cannot wait to see this years display!
Very cool, as always! Well done. This might finally be the encouragement I needed to get a 3D printer!
Good stuff!
Esta muy demasiado real gracias por compartir 😊
Insane skill level!!! Whatever you used to simulate the cartilage, wow!!!!
Looking forward to this
nice!
love the touch of the cracks and small chunks missing at the top. Looks authentic!
Lol, that's sorta what happens when your cut to stupid wonky, and you have to hide it. Lol
Ummm. How?
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This video is great and your house is great! Did you buy your fog machines with timers or add the timers?
Timers are extra for most fog machines. I have no idea why the manufacturers don't just build in a timer or include one. Instead they usually just include a little push button thing on a cord to manually activate it and call that a "remote".
That is 1st class. Awesome job!
Looks great!!
I love this. Super job on the project!
He gave me the creeps more than the poltergeist did. His face makes me shudder! Great job on the stone.
What kind of blower and ultrasonic thing? Do you have links?
You never cease to amaze me with your creations, can't wait to see this year's set up!
Those cracks.........don't know anyone that does it better than you!
Looks phenomenal
This tombstone is really awesome. Henry always gave me the creeps so please make sure he stays buried there. Lol.
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I love it so much! That skull has great bone structure!
It's mighty kind of you to give The Puritan a proper resting place. He just wanted to go to the light.
Do you like the 3” fog intake elbow or do you think a 4” would be better there as well as the tote exit?
For the intake I think a 3" elbow is about perfect. At least for my fog machine. I get very little fog not being pulled in and it lines up really well. Upgrading to a 4" elbow might work for a bigger fog machine or one that doesn't line up perfectly with the 3" pipe. As far as the exit goes, I think a 3" is PERFECT for MY setup. I used to have a 3" pipe running into a 6" fog tube, but after swapping to a 3" fog tube I have found that it works way better than the 6" did. Again, as with the intake, a bigger fog machine might work better with a bigger exit pipe and fog tube. Mine took a bit of experimenting to find the right balance and I can say for a Titan 1200 fog machine, a 3" intake, 3" outlet and 3" 25ft long fog tube with 1/2" holes about 10" apart works GREAT! I would also say, if you are using a 4" inlet, use a 4" outlet to prevent any back pressure issues.
do you recommend this printer?
Highly! It's a bit expensive, but from what I've experienced and what more experienced people have said about it, it seems to be one of the best printers out there right now. I'm glad I chose it over the Creality printer I was looking at.
@@OakLaneCemetery I have a Creality ender 3 v2, it's been in the cupboard for two years now, useless, with only problems. I'm currently looking for something better.
When I did my research into them I was able to narrow it down pretty quick to the Creality K1 or a BambuLabs P1S. Both had all of the features I wanted and both were at the top end of the price range I was looking at. To settle it I started looking at Reddit posts for Creality and Bambulabs. I saw pretty quickly that the Creality subreddit was full of people asking for help with issues or to solve problems with their prints. Some were just there to show off the nifty things they had printed. Over on the BambuLabs subreddit I found things to be completely the opposite. Most of the people there were showing off their prints or printer setups and far fewer were having issues. Another thing I noted was how many people stated that it worked for them straight out of the box, which was also my experience. When I got my P1S I unboxed it, spent about 30 minutes setting it up, looking it over and reading the instructions. Did a quick KZread search to see someone thread up the filament to make sure I did it right and within another 30 minutes I had printed a perfect little green "boatie" as my first print. From there I moved on to downloading some small models and printing them and within a few days I had printed my fist large print, a skull bowl. Within a week I had printed a full skull. Within another week or so I had printed a fully articulated life sized spine and skull. For being a complete novice to 3d printing I kinda feel like the printer made it stupid easy for me to move so far so fast in my 3d printing endeavors. I have never had to tweak any major settings or tune in anything. If something fails, I clean the plate and try again. If it fails again I reorient it on the plate, add a brim and fiddle with the supports. I have yet to find something I can't get to print using this method. GREAT printers in my experience.
Solar lanterns! Genius!
Brilliant! So inspirational!
This is so cool👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😍😍
It's amazing how such a small change can make a big difference. This looks much better!
Looks awesome with the random side to side! And love the coffin lid!
What expandable hose are you using between the blower and the tote?
I started out with some 3in vacuum hose, but it got brittle on me in storage so I switched to a cheap 3" plastic coated aluminum flex duct thinking that might last longer. It worked good, but was pretty fragile. My next plan was to glue up some 3in pvc and fittings to make a hard line instead of using the flex, but I just happened to find some 3" flexible pipe that fit PERFECTLY and was long enough to allow me to eliminate that short hose between the box and my fog tube. Now I have the blower attached directly to the box outlet and my super long fog tube attaches directly to it. Unfortunately I have no idea where to find the same pipe like I'm currently using because I found it in a trash pile at work.
Yeah, the in-line blower is 3”. I’m going to try 4” flexible dryer duct, which snugs up against the in-line blower box and then try to connect that to the tote pvc exit somehow. I’m trying decide whether to use 3” or 4” pvc for the tote exit. I think you mentioned that you thought 4” would be better.
Yea, doing all 4" would probably make more sense and be easier to fit.
That's frikkin cool.
Definitely better! I love how the empty eye sockets follow you, lol Great job as always!
This is movie prop quality work dude ! 👍
WOW!!! Just incredible. Amazing job.
Great Job. Thanks for Sharing.
So cool, very nice job! I've been wanting to do the latex corpsing but I'm worried about it disintegrating too fast since UVB breaks down latex pretty fast. What's been your experience with it? If it at least lasts a few years I'm good with that, I just don't want to be doing massive repairs every other year
All depends on climate and sun exposure. Latex breaks down fastest under heat and direct sunlight. I've found a top coat of spar varnish can help a lot, but all latex will break down eventually. Embedding cloth or shop towel can also help add strength and prolong it's life. This one is somewhat shaded in his coffin, plus it will be in a shaded area so I expect to get at least 5 years before it needs repairs.