In-house woodshop, metalshop, CNC, 3D printing, vinyl wrap, and scenic painting. Set builds, branded scenic walls, custom risers, and activation architecture — designed, fabricated, painted, shipped, and installed by one team.
Most scenic vendors farm out half of any build — paint to a paint house, CNC to a routing shop, metal to a fab vendor across town. We do it all in our LA warehouse. One shop foreman owns the project from kickoff drawings to truck call.
Stud-framed walls, plywood scenic, custom risers, set decks, and architectural detail. Table saw, panel saw, planer, drum sander, and 16 ft router table. Built for 12 ft tall walls and 20 ft long flats.
Welded steel sub-structure, aluminum profile builds, architectural frames, and load-bearing scenic. MIG and TIG welding, plasma cutting, press brake, and full powder-coat finish in matched colors.
5x10 ft CNC router for plywood, MDF, acrylic, and foam. Logo cuts, scenic perforations, decorative panels, kerf-bent curves, and custom modular tile work. Cuts from CAD direct to material with no manual translation.
FDM and SLA printers for props, custom mounts, architectural detail, and rapid-prototype mockups. Big-bed FDM for prop runs up to 24 in. Resin SLA for fine detail and brand sculpts. Stocked filament in matched brand colors.
Print-and-cut vinyl station for branded surfaces, logo applications, dimensional graphics, and full surface wraps. UV-printed vinyl for outdoor durability. Matched brand color profiles and custom Pantone hits handled in-house.
Faux finishes — concrete, weathered steel, brushed metal, marble, wood grain, brick. High-gloss automotive finishes for product launches. Theatrical scenic painting for backdrops. Custom Pantone hits with color match approval before any work hits the shop floor.
Every fab project moves through the same five phases. You get a single point of contact in the shop — the foreman who owns the build from drawings through install.
Most clients arrive with a designer's render or a moodboard. We translate that into a buildable, shippable concept — confirming materials, finishes, and structural feasibility before we draw a line. Designers who don't have a render get a designer assigned to take the concept to first-pass mockup.
Our shop draws every build in CAD before fab starts — structural elevations, joinery details, hardware schedules, and finish call-outs. The drawings get reviewed by the foreman, the structural lead, and the client. Changes happen here, not in the shop. Sign-off before any material gets cut.
For any project over engineered to brief we mock the critical sections — a corner of the wall, a sample of the paint finish, a swatch of the wrap. You walk through, approve materials and colors, and the shop locks the spec. Mockup phase catches more cost overruns than any other discipline. Skipping it is what kills budgets.
Fab happens across our six shops — woodshop, metalshop, CNC, 3D print, vinyl, paint — running parallel where the schedule allows. The foreman walks the shop daily and tracks progress against the build schedule. Photos go to the client every Friday. Major spec checks happen at three milestones: rough fab, finish-ready, and crate-ready.
Our crew loads the build into trucks, lands at the venue, and installs. Shop foreman is on radios for the install — the same person who built it owns the install. Strike includes pack-out to repeat-use road cases, damages punch-list inside 24 hours, and refurb pass scheduled if the build tours. For one-offs, kit returns to inventory.
Lead time scales with custom fab complexity. Here are the realistic windows we work to in the LA market.
| Project Type | Design Lead | Fab Time | Install Buffer | Total Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock Modular + Custom Wrap | 2 days | 3 – 5 days | 2 days | 1 week |
| Small Custom Build | 3 – 5 days | 7 – 14 days | 3 days | 2 – 3 weeks |
| Mid-Size Stage Scenic | 7 – 10 days | 14 – 21 days | 5 days | 4 – 5 weeks |
| Activation Architecture | 10 – 14 days | 28 – 42 days | 1 week | 6 – 9 weeks |
Rush builds under one week incur shop overtime and rush-fab fees. Stock builds with one branded face — step-and-repeats, logo walls — can ship inside 5 business days.
We don't publish a rate card because two builds with the same square footage rarely cost the same. What drives the number: material spec, finish detail, structural engineering load, fabrication hours, and how much of the install lives inside our 24-hour window. Tell us what you're building and we'll come back with a number engineered to it.
Our shop ships and installs across every LA dispatch zone. We know the venue dock specs, the freight elevator weight limits, and the day-of-load constraints.
A corporate keynote wall doesn't build like a festival mainstage scenic. Materials, finish standards, and tour-readiness shift by market.
Six shops, one foreman, one timeline. No farming paint to a paint house or CNC to a routing vendor. Every disciplinary handoff happens 20 feet away in our LA warehouse. About the shop.
Our scenic ships pre-cut for LED and lighting integration. No on-site reframing because the AV team didn't know about the scenic edge. Service stack.
Repeat-use builds pack to road cases by department, with build manuals and labeled hardware kits. A scenic that ran in LA last month rolls into Miami next month without re-fab. How we work.
Our shop covers six disciplines under one roof. Woodshop for stud-framed walls, plywood scenic, and custom risers. Metalshop for welded steel frames, aluminum profile builds, and architectural sub-structure. CNC router for plywood and MDF cut-outs, logo cuts, and decorative panels. 3D printing for props, custom mounts, and bespoke architectural detail. Vinyl wrap station for branded surfaces, logo applications, and graphic wraps. Scenic paint and finishing for texture, faux materials, and custom color matches. Everything ships on the same truck.
Four weeks is the comfortable minimum for a fully custom build with CAD approval, shop fab, paint, and ship. Two to three weeks is workable for stock modular builds with custom wraps or printed surfaces. Stock builds with one branded face — say a step-and-repeat or a logo wall — can ship inside one week. Anything tighter than two weeks gets quoted as a rush and incurs shop overtime fees. Send drawings, references, and a target install date at the kickoff conversation.
We start with discovery — a 20-minute call to understand the room, the run-of-show, and the look you're after. From there we do a site visit (or virtual walkthrough) to verify load-in, power, rigging points, and sightlines. That feeds an engineering document with fixture or panel counts, crew, transport, and any permitting. The fixed quote follows the engineering doc, line-itemed so you can see exactly where each number lands. No surprise add-ons after signature.
Both. Our scenic designers translate creative concept into a CAD set that the shop can build. Most clients arrive with a designer brief or render and want us to engineer it into a buildable, shippable structure. We also handle full-package design when the client comes with just a brief — sketches, materials boards, fixture choices, and a buildable CAD set come back inside ten business days. Our fabricators sit next to our designers, so feasibility issues get caught at the drawing stage.
Yes. Repeat-use builds are packed to road cases by department with labeled hardware kits and a build manual. Touring scenic gets a heavier paint finish, reinforced corners, and replaceable wear panels so repeat install and strike doesn't kill the look by the third city. For flying scenic we coordinate with our rigging team on load points and engineering. Every tour build gets a refurb pass between cities to fix wear before the next deploy.
Most of what you see in a fabricated set is paint over MDF, plywood, or aluminum profile. We do faux finishes — concrete, weathered steel, brushed metal, marble, wood grain, brick, stone. We do high-gloss automotive finishes for product launches. We do dimensional vinyl wrap for branded surfaces. We do custom acrylic and powder-coated aluminum for architectural detail. We do scenic painting for theatrical backdrops. For natural materials we source real wood, real stone, real metal at cost when the finish has to be authentic.
