Easy & Realistic Faux Stone Walls with Foam!
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- čas přidán 5. 11. 2021
- If you've ever needed to recreate the look of stone for a facade or maybe even a fireplace surround, you'll want to check out this video. I'll show you how to get the look of stone with minimal tools and some craft paint.
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I work for a local haunted attraction making props, sets and costumes. I love your videos because they give me the specific “how to’s” for so many of the projects I do. Please keep the videos coming!
I agree. Huge help and time saver. I'd be lost without these videos. You do wonders for the community. Great appreciation man!
I have respect when people add their mistakes in crafting. The best/most frustrating part of craft is learning from mistakes.
I worked in Hollywood back in the 1980’s for a few years as a scenic artist. One of my projects was a commercial with the Smothers Brothers for Magnavox. I had to creat three walls that looked like flagstone. Used this exact same technique. When I saw the commercial on tv, I was completely blown away by the realism. These techniques are pure gold.
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Your work is above average,even up close it looks like true cement and bricks. Awesome it inspired me to try it out. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much!
Thats pretty cool but a pro tip . When you lay stone, vertical joints should never line up as it creates a weak point in a stone wall. I know it foam, but still for a bit more realism. Never stack vertical joints.
I worked at Walt Disney World and got to see their scenic guys add character paint to a crypt at the exit of the Haunted Mansion in 2007. They mixed drylok with green paint to added it in little piles to create mossy details, which I thought was brilliant.
Good to know!
From doing dioramas and scale modeling wrinkled up tin foil ball for texture is the best way for random stone textures
Nice presentation…the guy is fantastic in making these DIY videos
Glad you like them!
I ended up doing something like this for my haunt this year but on a larger scale. My facade was a cavern-like temple entrance and I used many of the same methods here when it came to carving my stones, again on a larger scale to look like they're larger rocks. Only differences were I used a router bit to carve my grout lines so they look like stacked rocks and used a heat gun instead of a torch for the weathering. I also Gorilla glued and screwed some leftover 2x4 scraps from when I rebuilt part of my deck in the bottom for security.
Overall it worked out great and I got tons of compliments and the almighty feel test
I used a metal brush wheel that was a bit beat up with a hand held electric drill to carve the grout lines. It makes a more irregular, realistic line. Scary Larry
Rock on man! 🤘
Oooo that dry brushing of white 👍🏼! It just came alive in front of my eyes
Isn't that great?! It's always a surprise.
I was the manager for a 30 acre Halloween park for 19 years. The owners had me rebuild it new every year. My sets were massive enough to fully enclose our 65' long hayrides. While I had built some modular walls using foam for detailed relief, over time I found this unnecessary & too time consuming for very large projects. Also, once you're seeing it under the typical dim and/or colored lighting conditions, the detail is all lost. This is how I did it. On a sheet of whatever sheathing you're using, roll the wall with your base color. This can be a medium grey, brown, green, whatever. Then you paint in the grout lines with a fairly dark grey. Next, shade the blocks by painting a black line along the bottoms & 1 side of every block, always using the same side (left or right). Then do the same with white along the top & the remaining sides. Lastly, dry-brush stipple randomly across the whole wall with each color & you're done. It isn't museum quality but it gets the job done. Last comment, while creating 'drips' is all fine, this gets totaly lost for the most part unless you do the wash much, much darker. Extreme contrast not subtle realism is the key. - Scary Larry
Great suggestions. I think there's a lot of different ways to create similar effects and it varies based on time/money/manpower/how close people will get to it.
I buy an actual course of flat stone to use as a stencil. I also do 4x8 sheets at a time, and covered the side of my house. Everything else I copy from you with the paint-especially the white paint on the surface!
I then plant a climbing vine to obscure the faux wall to add more realism
That sounds awesome!
@@VanOaksProps thanks! I started with 3/4” styrofoam “courses” titebonded onto plywood, then draped with landscape fabric then more titebond. As long as you put something “real” (plants, real rocks 😂) the uncanny valley in all humans won’t fixate and then ruminate if it’s real! I buy a box of Airstone now to get stencils and use a Dre Mel straight into the foam. I’m building turrets to bookend my iron gate at my driveway now! Hahaha
I’ve noticed that washes are a big thing. I use them and love them. My favourite technique is the wash and wipe! More paint, less water in your wash. Paint over everything then wipe away to top/raised surfaces. Looks great too.
“That’s not how I do it.” Love it!
I think this would look really cool as the accent wall behind a bar in a basement or something. It will have the look of stone without negating any insulation factors and will also act as a sound dampener.
highly flammable and puts out toxic fumes when burning...
violates fire codes.
That turned out great.
Like the way you explain how to do.
You do great work, man. Thanks for sharing your techniques with us!
Looks like a great background for a small reptile enclosure!
I think the effect from the larger brush would have been fine if you were looking for a sandstone appearance, instead of the grey/igneous stone appearance you were going for. Larger sandstone blocks would wear and dish out in the middle just like we see in the foam.
This is just what I needed! Thank you!!! Your channel rules!
You are like the Bob Ross of foam
Love your technique...so realistic. You do a fantastic job with your videos. I am always amazed! I stopped buying props years ago as you just can’t get a quality look. It’s much more fun to create my own creations, and they look so much better thanks to you and others who post “how to” videos like this. Your work is greatly appreciated!!!
This may sound crazy, but I have a stone fireplace in my living room, and they stopped the stone about 18 inches from the ceiling, because a structural beam runs across it. I want to make a thin sheet of faux stone to match the existing stone. This looks like it might do the trick. I would just need to slice the foam so that it doesn’t protrude farther than the existing stone.
I've built two cemetery pillars and I plan on using this technique to paint both of them.
Looks really cool. I've done smaller versions using ceilling tiles. Will have to try using foam.
Good stuff. This technique could probably be applied to terrariums as well!
I could very easily see myself making some of this when I can't think of anything fun to build and eventually covering at least one whole wall of my shop. As you can guess, I get bored easily. Thanks for the inspiration!
Fantastic! Great video, information, and thanks for showing the parts you were'nt thrilled about. Sometimes creators can forget that what not to do can be just important as what to do! 🙂
I love Ur voice!!.. So soothing... U should Voice over for Disney!!... Perfect Storeyteller!!..
Thnx for Faux Stone Techniques too!!... Lol
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Found your video while looking for inspiration to make a tomb for our VBS at church. Thank you for posting! :)
Love this. It looks great! I greatly appreciate how you clearly explain what you are doing as you are doing it. I've learned so much from your videos. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Nice. So many ways to make these stone panels. I will be making some but using a grinding wheel for texture on the surface ... if all goes well.
You are an amazing craftsman. I am so inspired.
Would love to see how to do this if you have to match up panels together to cover a much larger surface, without having to work with the foam, already mounted in place.
OMG..you certainly have more patience than I would in making this project. I have a 6' section that I want to do something like this in but will be looking at other ways.....hopefully. Thanx for your videos and tips and tricks
DEFINITELY helpful! Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Super helpful. Great outcome. Thank you.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching
Oh, wow! That looks amazing! I found your video when looking up how to paint faux stone over blocks, but I can think of lots of things I might use your technique for, such as props for VBS or at project at the elementary school where I work.
Thanks for watching!
Been wanting to make stone walls for my display and had been wondering how to go about doing it, I think this is the type of direction I’m gonna go in
😱Thank you for your time and sharing your talent.
Thanks for watching!
Looks amazing, I’m going to make some more cemetery pillars for next Halloween and I’ll use this video for references 👍🏻 thanks
Awesome Sauce! ❤️
Thank you 😋
Looks awesome, man!
Amazing, you are a cleaver chap. I keep coming back 😃
Lovely, building a Hagrid's shack to cover my well pump, was going to use stucco but I might use this method and also add some forced perspective to it.
Addi g tile grout in the gaps works amazingly! That's the way us modelers do it for dioramas ove xps or poundshop dry wall filler that's actually the best
Excellent
I enjoy watching all of your videos, they make my day. I'm going to go build something...
Awe, thanks!
if you have carved it so you can get cheese cloth into the cracks, painting down a complete layer of cheese cloth over the entire surface of the foam front and back, using latex house paint, will make it extremely durable. I've always done a rough scumble of 3 tones as the base paint ...
Good to know!
I will be doing this on my living room wall…..your work is phenomenal and your handsome too😍😊Thank you
Definitely for Halloween this would look awesome 🤩, thank you
Perfect. I was looking for something to make a mausaleum wall with. This is perfect
Nice!
This was great as always!
That’s impressive! Well done👏👏👏
Thank you! 😃
Amazing looking! Man, AAXA must be giving these projectors out like candy. Lots of the Halloween DIYers I follow are demonstrating this specific brand and model.
Actually I think the larger brush did a pretty good job. Maybe not the exact look you yourself was trying to achieve, but I thought it looks good, great video by the way and thanks for sharing ☺️👍🏻
EXCELLENT Video...
Thank you for sharing this
My pleasure!
I am so impressed!
You could make a more realistic feeling wall by creating an inverted stamp mold and pushing it into a layer of synthetic stucco applied over a substrate like drywall. The styrofoam is great for a prop though
Absolutely.
I wish I found your videos sooner this year, I've got work to do for next year. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, you too!
Great video as always. Enjoy your how to. Keep up great work
Thanks Ryan!
I just found your videos this year and am new to doing Halloween at my home for young and old. Very informative and creative please keep them coming.
Welcome!!
That looks great!
Isn't it just the dungeon master who makes terrain
You inspire me well thanks.
Excellent result! I like.
Another great choice of topic/technique on its own, and how useful this can be when making other (haunt) projects including tombstones, natural rock work and more. I enjoyed your particular color usage in your example, versus a typical monotone approach. Also helpful in your example is how scalable the technique can be. As you noted, the gaps between stones could have been narrower and deeper to create different shadow and texture effects, but can also be carved wider and/or shallower if one were carving large stone areas. All that can be achieved from a variety of tools as well, from wire brushes to fine Dremel tools. So many lessons and techniques to learn and apply to a variety of projects for makers. Keep up the great work!
Exactly!
Awesome job!
Thanks!
Great work loves it. Thanks
Excellent job 👏 👍🏽
Thanks for another great vid! I had intended on creating several walls like this for my display this year but ran out of time (don't we all?). So what I did instead was buy a load of 3D textured stone effect wallpaper (I believe they call it blown vinyl??) and stuck it on my flats. It comes in white so just needed a wash down with some gunky black, blown, green paints. Whole wall was done in 2 hours and looked pretty good under haunt lighting :)
Great problem solving and solution!
Finally someone who thinks about these type of things besides me. Great video thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Looks great.
Love this! I just subscribed❤Thinking of doing this on a wood fake fireplace mantle that I have electric heater in with fake glowing flames in my rustic bedroom.Thank you for the ideas.
You have a good narrator voice. You sound like a Bloodborne Pathogen video I have to listen to year after year. Doesn't sound like a compliment but there are other avenues you could take.
I’d use it for a faux stone fireplace :D
This is great!!!!
Looks great!
Thanks Jasper!
Excellent channel!
Thank you very much!
Love this great job
Great tutorial as always, sir. Bookmarked for next Halloween. Packing away this year's Halloween and starting to put up my Xmas xlights display
Love this!
Thank you
The water and torch technique is not one I've seen before. Interesting.
It’s a favorite!
Nice work! I think the larger brush added some decent texture to your wall. The end product is amazing!
This looks pretty realistic! HOW realistic? I am considering buying faux stone for my fireplace wall area. There will be no heat there, so no worries of catching fire. Gas firelogs too, so no spark. The foam would be 3-4 feet ABOVE the fireplace area, and on the sides...
Comparatively to $1,200, this seems more economical, and a lot less weight! Weight is a consideration, even for faux stone. I would be adding about 600 lbs to the wall ... versus..?? 30 lbs of foam?
Lastly, I am a schooled artist, and former Landscape Architect...so, I can do this! NP...
But am I being PRACTICAL?
I guess I just answered my question, lol...just go out and buy a 2x2 piece and TRY it, and see...right? Lol
Duh...it's early. 1st coffee...🤣
Brilliant!
This is amazing! How would one protect it if it’s for an outdoor application. Thank you so much!
It's not really designed for long term outdoor use, but you could coat it with water sealer and that should help to extend the life of it. But again, it's more for temporary or interior use.
I swear I would love to do something like this inside my someday house, but would be a little timid know how flammable foam insulation is. That said great job and thanks for the video.
One of my favorite sculptors on the CZcams uses actual rocks to texture the foam he uses when creating scenes. Nothing like using the real thing… worth a try at least. As always, great video! Your videos were a huge highlight of this years Halloween. Definitely turned my wife and I into aspiring haunters.
I love that!
Really good video production.
Two suggestions however. Instead of a box cutter to cut out the grout line try using a small "V" gouge. The size and type used in chip carving.
Next to avoid setting your self ablaze use a heat gun or your wife's hair dryer to distress and temper the foam. NOT A TORCH.
One additional thought, instead of black paint or wash try using a darker tone of the stone color with a tile grout lightly sprinkled into the wet paint.
Jim
Thanks for the tips! A note on the torch vs heat gun, I use the torch because a heat gun isn't hot enough to create the texture without the foam first absorbing the heat and then releasing that energy in unpredictable ways. So it's not that I'm against using one, it's that it doesn't provide the result I'm after. And a hair dryer simply isn't hot enough to create any texture. Just figured I'd give context to my decision to use the torch over something else.
loved it. great
Imagine doing a entire wall with this method haha, BUT IT LOOKS SO GOOD!!
That would be cool!
@@VanOaksProps I know right! If it would ever suit you, could you maybe do a video on how to make a 'fake' stone like inside a pyramid? And not out of foam, but from another material which I don't know the type of haha. Like, when you visit a themepark and tap on a wall of a themed ride you can hear its hollow
@@steven20919 That's most commonly done with foam that is then hard coated with fiberglass and then textured. Once the fiberglass sets up the foam backing is removed, which is why they sound hollow.
@@VanOaksProps Ah like that!! And could they probably reuse the foam if needed? So it kinda acts like a mold?
I don't think the larger wire brush made it look too hateful. Turned out nice.
Love your videos.
Thank you Margaret!
subbed. I haven't seen your content before. Not sure why. but the algorithm knows best.
Good job thanks
Thank you!