I was asked by our church to build a tabletop tomb for the weeks leading up to and including Easter.
To make it more impactful, I came up with the "brilliant" idea to make it FULL SIZED. After doing a fair bit of research on 1st century tombs, I settled on this design. Size: 10' w x 5'3" h.
All surfaces are 1-1/2" thick EPS insulation with simple supporting wood framing. The framing of the two main front walls is hinged so it can be folded up for more compact storage. The front ledges and top capstone are held on with simple French cleats.
Texturing was done a wire wheel on the hand drill and a small Japanese pull saw for the deep cuts. After light sanding it was primed then painted with taupe latex house paint. It was then glazed with watered down Paynes gray and burnt sienna acrylic artist paint. There is only 16" of depth to work with so for the inside view, a 16" deep box was made. To make it look like it was about 12 ft deep, I modelled the inside of the room including the table in my 3D software. Then took a picture of the completed front "stone" texture and mapped that onto the walls and table. Set the virtual camera at 5ft viewing distance and 42 degrees field of view and rendered that. The rendering was printed out as a 40 x 32 poster and spray mounted to the inside 16" deep box. The Fedex/Kinkos on NC55 did a GREAT job of helping to match the color tones.
Thanks for looking.
To make it more impactful, I came up with the "brilliant" idea to make it FULL SIZED. After doing a fair bit of research on 1st century tombs, I settled on this design. Size: 10' w x 5'3" h.
All surfaces are 1-1/2" thick EPS insulation with simple supporting wood framing. The framing of the two main front walls is hinged so it can be folded up for more compact storage. The front ledges and top capstone are held on with simple French cleats.
Texturing was done a wire wheel on the hand drill and a small Japanese pull saw for the deep cuts. After light sanding it was primed then painted with taupe latex house paint. It was then glazed with watered down Paynes gray and burnt sienna acrylic artist paint. There is only 16" of depth to work with so for the inside view, a 16" deep box was made. To make it look like it was about 12 ft deep, I modelled the inside of the room including the table in my 3D software. Then took a picture of the completed front "stone" texture and mapped that onto the walls and table. Set the virtual camera at 5ft viewing distance and 42 degrees field of view and rendered that. The rendering was printed out as a 40 x 32 poster and spray mounted to the inside 16" deep box. The Fedex/Kinkos on NC55 did a GREAT job of helping to match the color tones.
Thanks for looking.
