The Police Spinner from the movie Blade Runner. One of the very first jobs I had right out of high school was working at Gene Winfield Creations at the time Gene was doing the cars for Blade Runner. It was quite an experience getting to work on one of the greatest Sci-Fi movies of all time.

Most of the body parts were first made of wood...and lots of Bondo. Once parts were absolutely perfect, fiberglass was then laid over the body parts to create the negative molds. From these molds, fiberglass body panels were then made for the various vehicles. Most of the vehicles were built on old VW Beetles we got from the junk yard. We would remove everything but the bottom pan of the chassis and the drivetrain. The movie cars would then be built on these platforms.

Antartic prison entrance from the movie New Alcatraz.

The prison control room from New Alcatraz.

Prison cell block set from New Alcatraz.

Another set from "New Alcatraz" in which we built an ice tunnel using two part urethane foam and lots and lots of white and blue paint. Most "cave" type sets you see in film are made from this process. Rough frames are made and then covered in either fine window screen, or in this case, crinkled up butcher paper. After the walls are complete, a two part foam, similar to truck bed liner, is sprayed on the walls. The foam expands and hardens in just a few seconds and is then ready for paint.

C-130 interior set from the movie "Epoch".

Another set from "Epoch". For this scene, we built what would be the entrance portal into an alien spaceship. The entrance was supposed to be hundreds of feet in the air, so the scene was shot in front of a blue screen, so computer graphics could be added later of clouds and military aircraft flying by.

The underground drilling machine from Deep Core 2000.

For this set, we rented an inflatable military tent and turned it into a mobile medical tent with custom built body scanning equipment.

This set was built for the movie "Daybreak". After a large earthquake rocks Los Angeles, a Metro train is trapped in a subway tunnel. For this scene, we had to have the front of the train on fire. With the train on fire, our heroes spot water leaking from the side of the tunnel and proceed to break a hole in the wall to put out the fire. We had to incorporate a plaster section in the wall for them to break through and build in a water effect that sprayed out to extinguish the fire.

Demon Thrust rocket car from the movie "Landspeed". While the car wasn't powered, it did have to be sturdy enough to be towed at about 20mph and have limited steering. For the front of the car, we were able to get hold of a F-16 fighter jet cockpit from which we made a fiberglass mold. The bulk of the car was built with no blueprints or CAD drawings. Just a lot of good old fashioned napkin drawings and a very talented crew.

The finished car was over 30' long and had a custom made central chassis to which we connected the body structure. The entire body was constructed from a flexible plywood (bendy board) that was wrapped around central rings. After all the wood parts were attached, the entire car was covered in fiberglass, to hold it all together. The results were so realistic that racers at the dry lake bed we shot the film thought it was an actually rocket car.

Mini sub set. Every panel in the sub had to be removable to be able to get the various camera angles they needed from this set.

The haunted cruise ship hallway set from "Lost Voyage".

The military base set from the reality TV show "Combat Mission". Think Survivor type show except with real Army Rangers, Navy Seals, Swat and Black Ops personnel. The compound had a working mess, bunk houses, exercise yard and running water. The main compound here was over 300' x 500'. We also built a 5 acre water complex and huge outdoor obstacle course.

The oil wells were game pieces used in the reality TV show "Kid Nation". We buried dozens of 55 gal. barrels full of colored water in the field. The kids had to carry their oil wells over pipes sticking out of the ground and pump out the "oil" using a hand operated pump. Oil shooting out the top of the well was then collected in buckets and transferred to milk jugs that had to be filled up.

For this game, the kids had to do build and raise their church steeples. The steeples were covered in sheet metal and the kids used magnet backed puzzle pieces to build the colorful steeples. Once built, a hand crank was then used to raise the steeple.

The name of the game? Pork and beans, of course. The kids all dived into a 20ft. diameter frying pan filled with about 1000 gallons of pork and beans looking for puzzle pieces. Live pork was added to make things just a little more exciting.

These scenes for the movie "Richie Rich's Christmas Wish" were shot on the back lawn of the Ritz Carlton in Pasadena. A 35' Christmas tree was brought in and buried in the lawn, and then the entire area was covered in snow blankets and snow foam.