28 Days - Fortiac stone

This is the only new stone (so far!) this year.  

It started out as a joke, but also has a sad back story

 (not boo-hoo sad, but eye-roll / sigh / shaking head sad). 

Ya see.  the Spawn has had some bad luck with her vehicles.  

On the right is Lorenzo, a 2000 Ford Escort.  I drove him for 12 years and handed him down when Spawn got her driver's license.  She got t-boned on the passenger side a few months later. Then a friend rear-ended her, and replaced the rear bumper.   Then she got up close & personal to a white SUV one February morning on the way to the dance studio.  

On the left is Gertrude.  A 2005 Pontiac G6.  Gertrude also fell victim to a white SUV.   About a mile from the first one.  On the same street.  This time leaving the dance studio.  A week shy of one year from Lorenzo's demise!  (fun fact - it was still driveable!! I don't know for how long, but she was able to drive it into a nearby parking lot)

Next February she's going to be Ubering everywhere. 

I don't want to have to add Reginald to the stone!

So.

I started out with a 2'x4' sheet of plywood.  

I got the license plate blanks (in old-school Michigan plate blue) online for like $2 each.  

The letters are 4" stickers from Lowes.

After a few rough sketches, I decided on a head-on (HA!!) view of a car for the shape of the stone.  

The car body & side mirrors took up most of the sheet of plywood, so the tires were made from scrap that I had floating around in the garage.

I coated it with DryLok first, so it had some protection, then simply used spraypaint for the rest.  

I'm quite pleased with the colors, since Lorenzo was dark green & Gertrude was a dark teal. 

 

I wasn't sure where we were going to put it in the cemetery, but as we were setting up, I leaned it against the fence & it seems to be a good place for it!  This is where I usually shine my little floating ghost spotlight so I really hope it looks like the ghosts are flying up out of the stone!

 
Fortiac = Ford / Pontiac if you didn't catch that earlier.

Here's it up against a neutral background so you can see it better.
The plates aren't attached very well yet so they're a bit wonky,  but they'll do for now.
I'm considering using a white paint pen to put their years under the respective plates - it would look more like a "real" headstone then.



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