DIY ANIMATED Tombstones for your HALLOWEEN Graveyard

[Music] [Music] [Music] it's our problem oh i'm eduardo this is muscle tutorials in today's video we're making those spooky and made it to stones these are awesome to make your graveyard come alive which I love doing here because all my neighbors have tiny tiny little kids so it's not gory but it's nice and spooky that's what we're making today let's go on this video I'm going to make two tombstones while it's going to be one that you buy from the dollar store and the other one we will make from scratch for this tombstone I'm going to use a dollar store to store these are cool they're cheap but you need to reinforce them and everything so they work but I'm going to do it and I'll take some of this installation home I'm going to cut two pieces of foam and make this to the front three three layers thick this layer is two of the phone I am using a little magic wand from hot wire foam factory to cut this phone that looks good I'm going to trace the tombstone all around this we can cut these white pieces to the shape of the Tuesday [Music] and I'm using the cutter again for that path next step I'm going to glue these together and I'm using just silicone let this set this tombstone I will do it from scratch so what I did is I watched a movie I really like which is a nightmare before christmas and on the first scene when the song is going on I looked through the graveyard and soft that tombstone I thought that was really cool I really like this tombstone so I took a picture of it a screenshot of printed it and I'm going to transfer that designer to to a piece of blue insulation foam I'm gonna be using this kind of foam this is just up having insulating foam there's no special technique for this what I'm going to do is I'm going to be looking at this and kind of like guessing where it would go and then we're going to cut it out to do all that good stuff now I wanted to keep this size so this piece is going to cut to match this piece see but it's not fray that goes all around the tombstone I'm gonna cut this and this will be the template for this one this is a back piece because it's like a two or three layered two stones I'm using the hot wire to cut the shape out I cut this up and now I need an extra skull which I went to just shake right here and cut it out as well like the assembly will go something like this but put this piece here and this piece here I need to cut a round piece for this and then this goes on top like that cool let's assemble this I just need this little piece right here I'm going to hold this aligned with toothpicks nice this goes right here and this piece goes right there and will sculpt all that to its perfect shape [Music] that looks good let it dry these guys are set they're nice and strong this one as well I put a piece of foam in the base to reinforce it because I need it to be about that white okay and you'll see why in a minute I still have to carve this all the way well I put some of the markings I was like alright be here on the date I know where the eyes are going to be so we'll carpet in a second but first I got this piece of wood from a pallet and that went to use it as going to cut pieces as the base for our two stones we want them to be really stable so for this one I'll probably making about a foot I'll finish that make our 14 inches for this one for the dollar one dollar store one probably about 16 inches that's me 18 inches so 14 and 18 I'm just going to go in that garage and cut it with a saw I got these cut so I'm gonna go spray paint them black with just a kind of scraping just so that they hide a little bit better when we put them on the ground got the graveyard so I'll do that in that garage you don't have to see it's just up spray paint the other thing I'm going to do that's gonna take some kind of carve this to look like that's not going to use a dremel right I'm just going to carve the eyes out the nose the teeth and everything just as carefully yes as I can and look what I use some sandpaper to smooth it out to engrave the words here I'm gonna use the engraver from hot wire for factory how it used this guy but it it looks pretty cool that's awesome let's do the date - this looks great all right I'm going to do some of these cracks with the graver and let's do a few of the pieces were that cement or the concrete has chipped so forgot just push on the corner and you get your pieces out see see that looks awesome okay let's keep going that looks great so now I'm going to take some sandpaper have different grits here and just go over it take some of this hard edges off blend the two pieces of foam together kept his eyes or nice around it and just finish it up so we can go to paint that's looking great so now what i texturize it victus as you can see that's really smooth right now it's supposed to be stone that has been weathered so for that I'm going to just spray it very lightly with water and put the heat gun on it which will texturize the phone now heating up this foam will release some nasty fumes so I'm wearing my respirator and that tent technique is basically to spray this with a very light misting of water and then we'll take the heat gun and we heat up the home until it starts contracting and expanding to give you that stone texture [Music] [Applause] [Music] now it looks fantastic check out the fixture looks like real stone so now I go to paint I am ready for paint now so for the paint I'm using this gray exterior it's like paint and primer I found in the OOP section of Lowe's and I was like 10 bucks and it's great so that's a great deal I'm going to mix it up with water on a ratio of two parts paint one part water and that's so that it fits through this cheap airbrush that I have right here now this can be very well painted with a brush but since I have the airbrush and the compressor I'm just going to do that they'll make it a little bit faster like these guys are trying now the gray paint they need a little bit of touch-up and that's about it nothing major so the next step is I took a half water and have this acrylic latex which is black I'm going to spray so it gets caught in all the deep recesses like the eyes nose between the teeth all the areas where the grime tends to accumulate over the years I'm just going to spray all over and if an area gets too dark take a sponge and just wipe the excess off make sure it's a flat sponge so that it picks up only the high areas these are looking great look at all the texture that came out we're gonna let that dry but I'm also going to take one of these cheap disposable brushes and I'm going to paint inside the letters inside the eyes nose and between the teeth that gives a little bit more depth this is looking great so I took up little paintbrush and I did the letters as well I went into the crevices and the cracks and did that so we have that dark stuff and now let's do the highlights which will make this look even better well the highlights I'm taking just somehow this is exterior matrix I think was leftover from something we painted here in the house I'm just going to put some right here and then we're going to use this sponge brush I'm taking some of this white paint wind-up brush I'm covering the brush pretty well but then getting rid of all the paint and now just very gently running it across the top so I'll start picking up all those higher areas it'll look really cool [Laughter] that's looking pretty cool get in here it's some of this it's like that is fantastic I'm gonna do the same to that dollar store to stuff that looks good too I think we're ready to animate these guys the basis that I painted black or drying out this was the pallet wood right and the first thing I'm going to do is take a drill and just make four holes in four corners so now we can take this and stick it down with the tenth stick through the holes okay so now I'll keep your tombstones from toppling over is there a top heavy like Nightmare Before Christmas one wherever it is this way or from the help you with the wind and in a way this situation I'm just drilling those about an inch in those aren't done now test fit or two stone right on top of the base so I'm going to be working where the two stones should go and I'm centering it just centering it across the base that looks good now first thing we're going to do is you have to decide which way do you want the Tucson to move this way or this way right once you decide on that like this side better it's a little bit flatter we're going to take one of these hinges these don't want to happen changes there's a link below for this and put it right there so getting this off too so I can mark where the hand goes that looks good and when I pre-drill some little holes and we're going to mount up the hinge now since that to stung it's going to move this way so we put the hinge this way so that's a tube still can move okay and they'll be flush flat on the piece of wood and flush on the to stop that looks great now let's set this aside and wait to mark where the hinge is going to go on this side for reference and try to Center it on the foam so that you can catch solid foam right so I know where they go right there now does that put a motor on this side the animation is going to be achieved with these motors these are 12 volts and they do about 5 rpm they're really slow there's a link below for these also so the idea that this motor it's going to go mounted right here and it's going to turn and lift the tombstone so I'm going to be measuring to see how much movement I want from the to stop I also want the cables to come out to the side where the hinge is somewhere to aim the cables this way I'm going to mount this motor right about here this can be a mother with glue and you have two tabs where you could put some screws or some nails I would use glue and screws to hold it nice and steady I'm also going to dig a little bit of our calling de foam here to recess it just a little bit not all the way through but just enough to be nice and sturdy nice and snug in there for that I'm just marking a little circle right there and I'm going to recess that I went to just my trusty dremel tool to drill down about quarter of an inch that is perfect I'm going to glue that in and find two screws or nails that go all the way in I'll make sure to test your glues so i tec I tested this guy and I tested this guy now this guy that says superglue right those are the results that one it's this one in 8 right through the phone so that's not good this one it's this one so not good either one of my favorite glues but not for this he had made a hole right immediately and then this super glue which I thought was going to eat through the foam is sitting right on top nice and thick okay so I'm going to use that glue I also found some screws this is a short one for this backside right and a long one for this side so it can reach and it won't go all the way through so that's good and you can put some glue on the screw as well so it holds onto the foam a little bit better right the glue on the motor all right nice and firm now we can put the screws in to the phone now remember this is foam it does hold well but it is foam after all so don't strip the the holes or anything just gently do all these procedures that's nice and tight that's not going anywhere and for the motion I'm going to use a popsicle stick so I'm going to use one of these we're going to put it here so that it turns and it lifts the tombstone so let's do that I'm going to drill the hole just a little bit offset there you go now we put the screw through there should fit snugly otherwise it will slip when your motor turns and we put it on the motor now I'm going to mount this we line up the holes that we marked before and we're going to put some of this hinge screws in there to hold the hinge in place all right so there's all secured as you can see what I'm going to do is solder the motor cables to the power adapter this is a nine volt power adapter the motor is rated for twelve volts okay so you can use any of these that you probably have laying around as long as they say twelve volts and maybe like a half an amp or 500 milliamp great these are twelve I'm using a nine for the slower motion right and what it's going to do is going to turn I'll show you and it's going to lift the tombstone up a bit so first let's secure this no but I solder these guys I'm sliding these cables or this little shrink wrap and this tomb so it's not going to be weatherproof but this helps keep the water out this little sleeve right here so I'm going to slide the first don't forget to slide it first because I already soldered it and didn't put the sleeve on and had to undo all the work so now let's get this ordered here this one goes with this one and you can use electrical tape if you want to that looks great I'm going to take these guys and I'm going to wrap each one with electrical tape now we're going to slide that over I'm going to slide the sleeve over the cables and now we're going to take the heat gun and shrink it don't get the heat gun too close to your tombstone or you'll melt it [Applause] [Music] now that we have this all soldered as secured I'm going to just route the cables to the back this way all the way down over the hinge and out this way so we can plug it somewhere I'm just going here without restricting this movement right so this should be able to move freely for extra security and when to staple this right here right that is secure so this tomb stuff is pretty much done I'm going to go set up in the graveyard so you can see how it works but first I'm going to do that dollar store one and I'm going to do exactly the same thing I did to this one I finished this I did the same as we did on the other tombstone these guys turned out awesome right now let's see them in action before we go outside to the graveyard [Applause] I'll make my spooky graveyard there let's go outside [Music] 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Channel: Monster Tutorials

Views: 223,287

Keywords: HALLOWEEN, HAUNTER, DIY, TUTORIAL, CREEPY, HORROR, tombstones, graveyard, animatronic, nightmare before christmas, gravestone, cemetery

Id: A6827qeguqw

Length: 27min 40sec (1660 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 02 2019