Prop Making:

“Creating things that look real” - but are in fact fakes !

All manner of props and sculptures are produced in many types of materials. Large statues or small hand props. Trick tables and chairs to strange monsters. If you want things to fly, sink or swim, blow up or catch fire or even just bounce, we can help.

Work Examples

Scale Models

Architectual scale models and Marquette's made from your plans or if youo have an idea that requires developing, then we can model it.

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Gothic Throne

A Gothic throne made in wood and painted with gold leaf highlights.

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Custom Made Furniture

An Example of our custom made furniture for Sir Peter Hall's Theatre Company  'Time and the Conway's' at London's Savoy theatre starring Peneloply Keith. Special cushioning was built in to help Peneloply Keith, who was wearing tight corsets to sit upright and when she had to get out of the chairs.

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Horrible Histories Tour

Birmingham Stage Company's National theatre tour of the Horrible Egyptians and Romans. We designed, manufactured and engineered this 7 ft high Mummy case which had actors hiding inside. We also produced many of the detailed props and body parts for the embalming scenes.

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Bentley Rhythm Ace, Blur Burgers, and Iron Maiden's Eddie

These large scale props and set dressings were designed and manufactured by us. The golf cart for pop group Bentley Rhythm Ace was great fun driving around our workshop, The burger was left over from the Blur Wembley tour. These Blur Burgers were flown from the grid and lit up inside.

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Spice Girls - Work in Progress

This was the last Spice Girls gig they did (before reforming!) which featured our giant 'Spiceicle' It was carved from polystyrene and then moulded in clear fire retardant fibreglass. Moving lights were set inside a ring of truss-work and suspended over the girls at Earls Court Arena for the Christmas Spice World gig.

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BBC Radio One

Digital launch of "One Nation" could be seen on the streets of London. We had to blend and match the broken base of each of our No.1 props to the location pavement or road. The effect was as if these 12 ft high number "1s" that had dropped in from the sky and crashed into the ground.

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MAXVIEW

Maxview required us to build an exact replica of their TV remote control, but 20 times larger. We made this from fibreglass, metals and resins. The buttons were sprung loaded and cushioned to give a feel of the real thing.

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This Giant Lobster was made by scaling up a live Lobster which we kept in a large fish tank in our workshops. Every small detail was re-creatated by enlarging the lobster by five times . We made the claws snap and the creature rotated around on a turntable as the eyes lit up. The finished size was around 5 ft long.

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1 and 2 More props and large scale model making for Iron Maiden World Arena Tour
3. 10 ft high fibreglass section of Stone Henge with the Company 3D graphic logo carved into the surface of the stone. This was used at Drytec‘s large exhibition sites around the world.

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Ian Westbrook with some of his 1:25 scale model buildings created for Channel 4 Films.

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