First Homemade Tombstone

I started this tombstone back in June. Cutting out the basic shape was rough going; the hot knife I bought was cheap and broke halfway through. I used some large knifes to cut out the rest of the shape, the blue foam is too thick, I won't be able to use a knife to cut out my second tombstone. I cut out a basic tombstone shape, someone said it looked more like a headboard for a bed.





I'm painting the tombstone flat gray, hopefully I can go back and try to "age" the stone and make it look closer to stone. I've noticed in this area most of the real tombstones have small orange and yellow lichen growing on them. I have some Spanish moss from a bag I got at a garage sale that I might paste on later. The fancy detail I bought at a garage sale, it was a cheap plastic candle holder; it kind of reminds me of the old decorations they used to have at the funeral home.



I painted the words black and they do seem to stand out from the gray tombstone.



In the end this will be seen in the dark with a blue light shining on it, so hopefully any flaws will be covered up by that, you have to admit it is better than those small wal*mart tombstones that cost so much.