Night of the Living Dead 40th Tribute

[mittelmeier]

Nice touch with the hand print on the top of the case. Looks great.

[XcOM]

dude that looooooks freeking sweet!

one of the first horror films i ever watched! still one of my fav's

[The_Crippler]

still one of my fav's

Obviously, I'm a bit of a fan as well.


Current situation update: I currently am finishing up the graveyard fence (getting it glued, painted and installed.) I have a few more white LEDs and some red EL wire on order. I don't have a lot of room behind the mobo tray, and I'm still trying to get that panel lit. That's really the last major thing I have left to do. After that, it's touch-up and final assembly. Which is good, because I have just over a week left.

[DonT-FeaR]

a week before what???


good to hear i will like this on when its done

[The_Crippler]

The 40th anniversary is Oct 1, next Thursday. I know, it's a totally self-imposed deadline, but I'd like to have it done by then.

[DonT-FeaR]

ah ok got ya

good luck and gods speed..

well flash es speed anyway

[The_Crippler]

Back again!

I finished up the main tombstones for the graveyard. I might make a few more blank ones if I feel that I need to fill some space, but these are the important ones. Since the lettering I used doesn’t come in different fonts, I tried to print them slightly askew and with extra spots of red to give them a horror-font feel. Without further adieu, I present the family to you:

I may add one for Johnny, but I’m not sure. He’s important to the plot, but not a very important character.


I’ve also done some more work on the side panels.

Much like the top, I wasn’t very happy with the paint on the side panel, so I sanded it down a bit and then went over it with some window cleaner. (Sanding with 1500 grit sandpaper really gives it a soft touch, but it leaves a lot of dust behind that you can’t easily see but will screw up the paint.)

It doesn’t look much different in this picture, but trust me – it’s a vast improvement. Go back and look at the before and afters of the top for comparison.

On the other side, I messed around with the “picture window” a bit more. As I touched base on before, even the black areas were letting through too much light, and I was going to need to do some painting on it to cover it up.

The picture is actually two transparencies – one black and white, one in color. At first, I tried to hand-paint the B&W one, but my brush-strokes showed up ones there was light behind it. So, I went to plan B.

Using painter’s tape and my carpet blade (My Xacto knife has been missing since college, and I got pretty good with this blade instead) I masked off all the important let-light-through parts, then it was prime and paint time:

Here it is, held up to the light, afterwards:

As you can see, this is much better. Yes, I realize that some of the transparent areas look pretty beat up. I will be reprinting the color layer before final install. This one was the work copy.

So now, I just have to hope that the lights I ordered will finally get the job done on this.

[DonT-FeaR]

very nice...

lovely work

[The_Crippler]

So now, I just have to hope that the lights I ordered will finally get the job done on this.

Well...they didn't. The "red" wire that the site says looks like this:

...actually turned out to be a very dim pink. At least it was only eight bucks, or else I might be pretty damn pissed off. As is, I'm still very disappointed.

On the flip side, I think that I found a solution to my problem, and early tests confirm it. Tonight or tomorrow, I will put it together and get some pics up.

[DonT-FeaR]

sweet

pitty bout the wire but only eight bucks

good luck