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So at 7:00 am I was finishing up yesterdays crop of tombstones. Since several others have asked about foam coating I thought I would post a few pics.
The stones are carved from styrofoam 3" thick EPS purchased from a TX company called powerfoam (they have offices in other states too! 4'x8' sheets 3" thick cost $12 each. I bought enough foam to make 60+ tombstones for my graveyard this year, this is the first 20 mid process. These stones will get detail painting and a polyurethane coat with UV protectant. They were cut with a hotwire foam factory wire saw and then "aged" with a heat gun and a wood rasp, the lettering was added with a soldering iron I bought from the dollar store (yes they die after a month but I buy ten at a time, if they get gunky then I chuck them). I tried to cover all bases but if you have question please ask.
Here is the coating I use, they premix the color for me and It costs $70 a bucket
The spray rig is similar to a wall texture hopper it costs $100 for the hopper and you of course need a compressor
trying to do this in four pictures.....
Coated stones, dries in two or so hours and cures in 24, but you can work with it as soon at its dry.
20 down and 42 to go, but the fun ones are coming up these are the filler tombstones. All these have actual old epitaphs but with changed names out of deference to the dead. I got some of the epitaphs from
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/epitfs.htm
Hope this helps somebody,
Allen H
The stones are carved from styrofoam 3" thick EPS purchased from a TX company called powerfoam (they have offices in other states too! 4'x8' sheets 3" thick cost $12 each. I bought enough foam to make 60+ tombstones for my graveyard this year, this is the first 20 mid process. These stones will get detail painting and a polyurethane coat with UV protectant. They were cut with a hotwire foam factory wire saw and then "aged" with a heat gun and a wood rasp, the lettering was added with a soldering iron I bought from the dollar store (yes they die after a month but I buy ten at a time, if they get gunky then I chuck them). I tried to cover all bases but if you have question please ask.
Here is the coating I use, they premix the color for me and It costs $70 a bucket
The spray rig is similar to a wall texture hopper it costs $100 for the hopper and you of course need a compressor
trying to do this in four pictures.....
Coated stones, dries in two or so hours and cures in 24, but you can work with it as soon at its dry.
20 down and 42 to go, but the fun ones are coming up these are the filler tombstones. All these have actual old epitaphs but with changed names out of deference to the dead. I got some of the epitaphs from
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/epitfs.htm
Hope this helps somebody,
Allen H
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