"'Murder' She Wrote" Archeological Find (this scan was such a mess, I didn't even try to fix it)
"Blow" Airfield Exterior, Wind Sock Pylon
"Inspector Gadget", Gate House. Match to 'Bag Company' location, downtown L.A. This was at the end of the show so I had time. Kinda made a meal of this one, but it is a good example of how to 'count courses' in brick skins. And it's pretty.
"Duplex" Dumbwaiter FX Unit Pans and Details. This show had the most beautiful sets in it. Mine were not amongst them. I got all the mechanical effects stuff, so I got to demolish all the other guy's pretty stuff. Heh!
"Duplex" Dumbwaiter FX Unit. Sections. There were a LOT of pages of business in this set, and three departments all had to be read in on them. That's why there are all the notes in the margins.
"Virus" Exterior, Volkov. Outboard Profile. This was an actual ship that we had bought and modified (only the exterior) to look like a Soviet-era science ship. By law, it all had to be made from steel, in a shipyard.
"Virus" Exterior, Volkov. Superstructure front elevation. The superstructure and exposed Orlop walkway were the only parts we messed with. This was an old satellite tracking ship, with huge dish antennas on top. Those, we kept. the rest we changed.
"Virus" Exterior, Volkov. Superstructure sections and elevations. Russian ships had this huge bloc of cabins across the front, so we had to add that to the more lumpy American structure.
"X Men" Interior/Exterior, Statue of Liberty. Head plans and elevations. I did concept development on the original movie, and I drew this one set. The rest went to Canada to be drawn and built by a U.K. construction crew. They were wonderful people.
"X Men" Interior/Exterior, Statue of Liberty. Head sections.
“Back in my day youngster we drew working drawings in pencil; on a drafting board! We made blueline prints from them on big, smelly machines that used ammonia hydride! Back then, no one but the IRS had computers and they used them to take our money so you can bet such newfangled frippery wasn’t welcome in the movie industry, by God! Nope, you had to have balls to make working drawings back then and big brass ones to duplicate’em! Why I remember it like it was yesterday, it was the winter of ’89 when the wolves came down from the hills and laid waste to Paramount…”
There are a lot of projects I am not proud of. Boring drawings of boring sets; but many otherwise ordinary shows have ONE interesting thing in them. I have collected the most interesting (I think) of those I have in pencil here, for the curious. These have been scanned from bluelines and so may be kind of muddy.
