Frighteningly Detailed Halloween Village

If you love villaging or if you love Halloween, this little video is my way of showing my appreciation for both. My daughter and I build all of our own platforms out of polystyrene, paint, model railroad groundcover and the rest is the fun part. Holes are cut into the bases to allow all cords and adaptors to drop down below for a cleaner look. The object is to make it feel like you could really step into the scenes and walk around. If the video doesn't make you feel something then you just don't appreciate what we "village idiots" love. Thanks, Lemax and Department 56.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Department 56
• Lemax
• Halloween
• spooky
• village
• villaging
• holiday
• lighted
• haunted
• creative
• model railroad
• groundcover

[oboale]

Awesome! I do village sets too. But I really like yours. What do you use for ground cover and multi-colored mosses?

[bloomncrazy]

@oboale Dept 56 has bags of colored "moss" but I buy most of my moss and ground covering from Woodland Scenics (website with the same name). I mix and match and have even used the sheets of ground cover in some instances.  Take time to look through the website because I have different grasses, weeds and all kinds of things that are actually made for model train scenery. The same type of stuff is available at craft stores but more readily available in hobby stores.

[BrettWeir007]

Does anyone know what scale are the Halloween villages? Is it an HO or O scale for trains, and do they use the dollhouse scale of 1/12 for people and buildings? BTW, what are the sizes of the people/ characters and the size of the buildings? Thanks in advance.

[bloomncrazy]

@BrettWeir007 Dept. 56 Snow Village buildings are said to be O scale and most other buildings from the Heritage Village Collection are said to be HO. The thing to remember is that Dept. 56 accessories and people are larger than O scale so that extreme detail is not lost. The buildings are varying sizes from 5" tall to 11 or more inches tall. The people are approximately 2 1/2" tall on average. I hope that helps.

[allhallows48]

This is a fantastic Halloween Display. You are very talented.

Thanks for sharing and giving me new ideas.

[bloomncrazy]

@allhallows48 Thank you for your appreciation. Posting these is the best way for us to share ideas so I'm glad you have been inspired to some degree. Good luck and happy villaging.

[Tieleeny]

Thank you so much for showing your steps! I've been trying to figure out how to make a multi-level display. But can you please tell me what dry brushing is? I only started doing my Halloween village a few years ago, and of course started off small and It has become much much larger, but I don't like just using Lemax's display platforms. What kind of foam was that and where do you buy it?

[6751mmk]

Wow!!! Very cool "Haunted, Spooky Halloween Village" - love all the details and your video is well done with the inspiring comments. Want to build a Spooky village one day!! Thanks for sharing this...

[gamy2chknfc]

Thanks for showing the steps! I have come back to this video again and again as im planning to make my own very soon. GREAT WORK!

[TheShaneWorld18]

This is really nice the best I have seen. This has given me some ideas :) This years spooky town isnt as good as last years and the year before :(

[BrettWeir007]

@bloomncrazy Thanks for the info. I guess I should not be too anal about it all and just start building and collecting. Thanks alot.

[BrettWeir007]

Thanks for the cool tutorial, I am a home haunter and this is going to be my next hobby.