New shoes to rock ren faires across the land. Black bison leather with stitching by hand and machine, black grommets and black lacing. Delicious.
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Custom Queen of Hearts: Perfectly Posh
Custom costumes for some of our favorite corporate ladies:) Plus by Hraefn Wulfson, a fantastic, lighted custom prop scepter of cut and sculpted sintra and acrylic.
Custom Queen of Hearts costume, ready to go to the Perfectly Posh convention. Silk velvet and silk organza. Lighted custom prop scepter of cut and sculpted sintra and acrylic.
Custom Queen of Hearts costume, ready to go to the Perfectly Posh convention. Silk velvet and silk organza. Lighted custom prop scepter of cut and sculpted sintra and acrylic.
Custom Queen of Hearts costume, ready to go to the Perfectly Posh convention. Silk velvet and silk organza. Lighted custom prop scepter of cut and sculpted sintra and acrylic. Steel stays throughout corset with steel lacing stays and brass grommets at center back.
Lighted custom prop Queen of Hearts scepter with Perfectly Posh logo, of cut and sculpted sintra and acrylic.
Lighted custom prop Queen of Hearts scepter with Perfectly Posh logo, of cut and sculpted sintra and acrylic.
McGrew Studios, 2019.
Custom Alice in Wonderland: Perfectly Posh
Custom costumes for some of my favorite corporate ladies:)
McGrew Studios, 2019.
Custom Mosquito Mascot: Spartan Mosquito
Fantastic, fun build for thinkwebstore.com ‘s client, Spartan Mosquito.
A custom mosquito mascot, custom Spartan tunics and capes plus a dead mosquito prop.
Custom welded internal framework and fittings with polyethylene foam, fabrics, vinyl, Worbla, 3D printed and vacuum formed parts plus cool lighting effects!
Unimpressed with the mosquito costume offerings out there in the wild, Bryan Carter of ThinkWebStore came to us. Discussions resulted in an agreement to create an oversize, realistic but definitely xenomorphic critter that would enthrall onlookers at its live convention performances plus Spartan Mosquito’s fun online videos.
Many thanks to Bryan Carter for hiring us and for your fantastic marketing idea that juxtaposes against the typical landscape. It’s brilliant.
National hardware conventions are typically about tile, plumbing and home improvement products. They rarely, if ever, are costume-focused events. ThinkWebStore’s parade of great looking models in custom Spartan garb and weapons, escorting their big captured mosquito around the convention floor is a sight that no one can ever forget!
The Spartan Mosquito Eradicator product itself is ingenious and supplies have been pre-sold out for months. Check it out: https://spartanmosquito.com/mosquito-control/
Hraefn Wulfson, meditating on the layout of the new custom mosquito mascot legs
Crit Killen and Hraefn Wulfson discuss attachment and arrangement methods for the new custom mosquito mascot chassis
Hraefn Wulfson cuts and sands forms that will be used to vacuum form clear plastic wings for the new custom mosquito mascot
Isaac Doubek’s handiwork- He’s made custom 3D printed eyes for the new custom mosquito prop
Hraefn Wulfson has the mosquito wing bucks ready for vacuum forming in clear plastic
Isaac Doubek’s handiwork- He’s rewired a multi effect lighting element to portable battery unit for the new custom mosquito mascot
Crit Killen and Hraefn Wulfson discuss attachment and arrangement methods for the new custom mosquito mascot chassis. Each leg slides into a custom fitting for clarity and speedy assembly
Crit Killen measures for wing attachment mount on mosquito mascot’s welded steel shoulder frame and chassis
Details of welded steel shoulder frame and chassis for new custom mosquito mascot on a dress dummy the same size as the five foot tall performer
Crit Killen and Hraefn Wulfson with the welded steel shoulder frame and chassis for new custom mosquito mascot on a dress dummy the same size as the five foot tall performer
Detail of each custom fitting for leg assembly in the new custom mosquito mascot
Hraefn Wulfson wearing the new shoulder chassis of custom mosquito mascot with legs attached, casting an interesting shadow
Hraefn Wulfson wearing the new shoulder chassis of custom mosquito mascot with legs attached
Detail: Spartan Mosquito logo heat transfers on red linen Spartan cape backs and wagon banners
Hraefn Wulfson arranges the new dead mosquito prop on the convention-safe Spartan spear
Hraefn Wulfson adding a few final touches to the dead mosquito prop
Spooky even in the daylight, the new mosquito mascot is ready to be disassembled for travel
Bryan Carter, Jennifer McGrew and Hraefn Wulfson in a selfie with new mosquito mascot costume
Spooky at night in the McGrew Studios parking lot- the new mosquito mascot costume
Mosquito mascot’s internal lighting has several effects and glows red with blood through its vinyl side abdomen “windows”
Some late night parking lot painting on the new mosquito mascot. Isaac Doubek and Hraefn Wulfson
Mosquito mascot’s inner steel armature visible through the newly cut abdomen “windows”
Ready to go to several national hardware shows on great looking models: Custom Spartan tunics, belts and capes. Red and white linen, jute, fun trims and brooches
Spartan Mosquito custom mascot scale pre-viz
A BIG 2019 project for us involving the team effort and mighty
talents of Hraefn Wulfson, Crit Killen, Isaac Doubek, Carolyn Richardson, Uptown Embroidery and Jennifer McGrew
Custom Table: BladeHQ
A new table, custom fabricated in welded steel and wood with a laminate top for BladeHQ’s weekly video series to feature their new knives and other products.
Made to spec by our own Crit Killen, 2019.
Thank you to Jamie Gregor of bladehq.com for having us build it:)
Finished table, delivered to the new BladeHQ set
Crit Killen works on custom table for BladeHQ
Stained wood surfaces of new custom table for BladeHQ
Wood stain test on side of new table
Custom laminate top on new table
Initial thumbnail sketch
“RX Trivia” Waiting Room Commercial: Custom Set Design
Custom set design and build we executed for Intermountain Healthcare’s ‘game show’ commercial about opioid awareness, 2017.
We made these custom theatrical draperies and specialty CAD cut backdrops.
Director: Tyler Packard
Actress: Scout Smith
Client: Kineto Pictures
Sundance 2019: @benschilibowl-VRExperience Custom Set Design:
Our custom set design & build for the Traveling While Black VR experience.
Sundance Film Festival: New Frontier.
2019.
For Felix & Paul Studios.
Many thanks to our great new friends, Traveling While Black’s producer @ayesha_nadarajah, plus @nerdydydy and @biankaaaah of Felix and Paul Studios.
Installation begins: Joshua Kirkland applies custom decals.
Hraefn Wulfson & Isaac Doubek install flooring.
Booths and counter installation.
Mirrors attaching to wall.
Bianka and Cindy of Felix & Paul Studios add decor including framed photos, napkin dispensers, ketchup & mustard servers plus Ben’s Chili menus- as early viewers experience the film Traveling While Black.
Traveling While Black making news in the Hollywood Reporter
Film poster
Custom restaurant fixtures, being painted outside our glamorous studios- to match fixtures inside of the real @Benschilibowl locations.
Obligatory set-strike selfie.
Jennifer McGrew and Hraefn Wulfson.
Loading out and ready to ship set to Los Angeles.
With Mark Putscher.
Custom Miniatures: The Temple
Specialty sixth-scale miniatures.
The Temple, 2017.
Hraefn Wulfson.
Custom Miniatures: The Last Man on Planet Earth
The Last Man on Planet Earth, 2000.
N Scale miniatures.
Hraefn Wulfson.
Custom Miniatures: Fyall- Wheel of Time
Custom 6th scale miniatures.
Fyall: Wheel of Time universe
2015.
Hraefn Wulfson.
