Just wanted to show my cut out of the Hitchhiking Ghosts from The Haunted Mansion from Disneyworld. Came out looking great and I’m excited to paint them. I’m going to paint them with glow in the dark paint and use a blacklight to light them up in my front yard as decor.
Nice! I wonder how well it would work to add ground stakes into the design itself then they could be pushed straight into the ground without any further additions.
I did the same thing with the M2 and some Grinch characters for my wife for XMAS. I have found in the past that 1x4’s and screws are the weak point (for hard ground at least) and went with some eyelets in the back of the standees. The then pound some rebar into the ground and slide them over. Works like a charm and will last forever.
“Down And Out In the Magic Kingdom” by Cory Doctorow ignited my love of Haunted Mansion, recommended for anyone who enjoys near future science fiction.
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Attaching a copy of my DXF in case anyone else wants to do something along these lines. Started with an SVG then played around until I could get the biggest version that’d fit on a 4x8. It’s hand-arranged, Deepnest struggled with this one so there might be ways to make them even bigger and squeeze them together.
I painted both sides with white housepaint then dusted them with a ghostly blue-green before coming in with a small spongebrush and acrylic paints to color Gus’s ball & chain, Plump’s hat & bag & shoes, and of course Beanne’s jaunty bow tie.
For the cut, I did a 2mm engrave of the art and then cut them out with the existing outer border. KrabzCAM was very helpful with this and helped me find some wonky artifacts that would have wreaked havoc. M4 with 1/8" bit at 1800mm/m in 1/2" ply.