The Build Shop at CLC

Once again, CLC was wonderful in providing us with a fairly large paint/build area in the church. This made transporting sets so much easier! For the new Magi Tower set, Greg pre-built the framework at his shop and then transported them over to the church for final texturizing and painting.

Below you can see the walls of the exisiting sets undergoing their flame-retardant coat. While I barely whimpered at the thought of having to repaint the sets back to their original state, many people that came in to visit practically cried at the thought. We also made sure to flame-retard the new stuff that was built.

So here is Joseph's house, now on rolling braces and undergoing the flame-retardant coat...

And here it is undergoing its transformation back to it's original paint scheme. You can see the original set and paint scheme in my very first blog entry.

There is definately a lot of different steps involved in making theatrical sets; research, sketches, plans, framing, texturing, paint, set-up and tear-down. Most people I talk to see the final product and exclaim how they would never be able to do something like that, but when you take a step back from the final product and look at the different layers/steps involved, I firmly believe that anybody can do it. And I have proof! While proclaiming that he was strictly a carpenter, Greg certainly learned that he could do all the artistic stuff too.