Set Painting 1997
I was part of a 40-man paint crew under paint supervisor,
Bob Denne. Most of my work was done on multiple sound
stages at the Sony lot in Culver City, CA, and on location
in downtown LA- which doubled for the New York City
streets for some of the action scenes. On location, there
was much faux concrete I painted and aged as well as
'concrete' barriers. Most labor intensive was the "Madison
Square Garden" set; with multiple scenic surfaces including
scenic tile work, metal and concrete, composed mostly of
MDF board which needed multiple layers of sandable
primer before the high gloss and semigloss finish coats
were applied.
One of the subterranean wreckage sets, built at Sony. The large
concrete chunks are sculpted out of expanded polystyrene bead
foam; I primed and painted with conventional spray rigs, finished
with Chapin sprayers and aging. I also "rusted" various PVC pipes
and conduits with a special aging formula and asphaltum over-
glazing.
Part of a severed "sewage pipe" with the asphaltum aging. Off to
the left is some of the "rusted" pipage, surrounded by "concrete",
in the subterranean set, at Sony.
The broken subway line, part of the subterranean wreckage set; the
interior of the train car was painted and aged; I painted an aged
and chipped-away paint scheme on the metal railings in the tunnel
platform, caution lines, and more aged concrete work (the photos
of this was lost).
The arena wreckage of the "Madison Square Garden" set, after set
dressers began placing the eggs that were delivered from Patrick
Tatopoulos Studios. More polystyrene bead foam concrete rubble- a
large amount of prep and painting went into this. The lights at the
far end of the expanse is a set continuation still under construction.
GODZILLA
Teaser
GODZILLA
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