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Picture of the Week |
06 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017
Wall of T-Shirt designs from past years at Cheeseman Fright Farm. Full image shows all of 'em.
Location: 40° 56' 17" N, 80° 10' 06" W
16 Oct 2017
09 Oct 2017
02 Oct 2017
25 Sep 2017
A plush Horde wyvern holds a Wolf King Warrior imperial stout. It's a bit easier to find around here than our first choice, the seasonal Wulver Wee Heavy Ale. Both are brewed in the area, more or less.
The wyvern? Ysengrin used to play World of Warcraft, Horde side, and collects plush.
Location: Clarion, PA
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017
04 Sep 2017
21 Aug 2017
14 Aug 2017
07 Aug 2017
Had a really close lightning strike on the 4th - less than 200' from where I was standing. The next day found two outdoor light switches blown apart. One cover and part of the switch was about 12' away from the base.
Think the lightning struck the tall tree next to the old light post in the picture, jumped to the post and fed into the house. A network switch, laptop (that was plugged into the network) and stereo amp (next to the laptop) were all fried. Later found that the timer on the pool pump was also fried.
Location: The Workshop
31 Jul 2017
24 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017
A wooded and sheltered part of the yard plays host to these ghost pipes growing out of some leaf litter. There's a total of eight or nine clusters of these pipes scattered around the yard.
Location: Out in the woods near the workshop
10 Jul 2017
03 Jul 2017
26 Jun 2017
19 Jun 2017
12 Jun 2017
Ysengrin out prowling around the woods on Memorial Day weekend, at a friend's party. This was why he needed to be washed in last week's photos. Held on privately owned land so there were no issues with "freaking the mundanes" (or with large amounts of alcohol, fireworks and meat).
Photo is copyright by Mimosa Moth (@mimosamoth on Twitter) and is used with permission.
Location: Out in the woods near the workshop
05 Jun 2017
Werewolf hanging up to dry after a good soak in a tub. Here we show both the drowned rat and mostly dry stages. After many hours of hard play and rolling around in the outdoors across Memorial Day weekend, the bath was much needed.
Someone asked if hanging the suit wet like this stretches it out. It doesn't, because there's a network of supporting strapping under the fur to prevent just that. It's there because earlier suits would stretch and sag due to the weight of sweat saturating the suit during long hours in a hot haunted house, but the strapping works just as well with the suit soaked in just water. The suit is also hanging on a wide wet suit hanger, which spreads the weight across the shoulders and opens up the chest cavity so air can circulate inside.
Location: Out back of the workshop
29 May 2017
The latex of the old master wolf paws (over twenty years old) had shrunken unevenly, making them unsuitable for remolding. Ysengrin made a quick mold with plaster bandages and cast a shell of Monster Clay in them, filling the core with plaster. The clay casts will be corrected and retextured before making new molds for the wolf feet.
Location: The Workshop
22 May 2017
Photos taken at the soft opening of the 2017 Wings Over Pittsburgh air show.
Top photo is a F-22 Raptor coming to a stop; it's part of the Air Combat Command F-22 Demonstration Team. Behind it is a B-52 Stratofortress.
Bottom photo is a KC-135 Stratotanker - full image also has a taxiing C-17 Globemaster, cropped out of the thumbnail.
Location: 40° 29' 33" N, 80° 12' 45" W
15 May 2017
08 May 2017
This mature peacock wandered into the workshop through an open door to check out what was going on. None of our neighbors have peacocks, though one neighbor apparently saw the same peacock earlier about a mile away heading down the road from the highway. There's no I.D. band on the peacock.
Peacocks are not native to the area (or the continent).
That was a few days ago, and the peacock has apparently made us a regular stop. He's been seen at least once every day, looking in through the workshop door.
Update: the peacock hasn't been seen since the 16th.
Location: The Workshop
01 May 2017
24 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017
03 Apr 2017
27 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017
13 Mar 2017
06 Feb 2017
30 Jan 2017
16 Jan 2017
09 Jan 2017
02 Jan 2017
Master pull of the griffon paws (foam filled). I'm playing with markings cast in the latex. There's no airbrushing (or painting at all) on these, and they're just roughly cleaned up - you can still see the mold line, for instance. I keep pulls like these around to make it easier to make new molds, if needed.
Location: Clarion, PA