The Art of Sculpting and Molding: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Regal Robot's Process

When it comes to creating intricate sculptures and molds, Regal Robot's team of skilled artisans has honed a precise process that involves meticulous attention to detail. From the initial design phase to the final product, every step is carefully considered to ensure that each piece meets the highest standards of quality and accuracy.

One of the most critical aspects of sculpting and molding is creating a mold. This process can be complex, as it requires a deep understanding of the material being worked with and the ability to predict how it will behave under various conditions. As our artist notes, "the biggest challenge is making sure that the mold doesn't break or distort over time." To achieve this, Regal Robot's team uses a specialized silicone molding process that involves applying multiple layers of liquid resin to create a durable and flexible mold.

The result of this careful process is a mold that can be used to create an exact replica of the original sculpture. This is especially important for complex pieces like the one being discussed, which features intricate details and textures. "We have to kind of take off the whole mother mold and then so you have to kind of so you pull the whole mother mold off of it every time you have to yeah yeah there's just too much detail too much we didn't want to you know it's okay to have some undercut um yeah but this sculpt just needed that extra little oomph in we didn't want to take that away," explains our artist.

One of the most striking aspects of Regal Robot's work is its attention to detail. Every chip, every weathering effect, and every tiny aspect of the sculpture is carefully hand-painted to create a realistic and immersive experience. As our artist notes, "this is one of those hidden costs of people don't realize about silicone molding is you don't get an infinite number of casting sound passing limits the lifespan of the mold and it changes its properties you have a flexibility for the first casting that might not exist on the 8th yeah and you start to shift your your seams will start to shift as the silicone expands and contracts a little bit over time so you need to make new molds all the time."

Despite these challenges, Regal Robot's team remains committed to creating the highest-quality products. Their dedication is evident in every piece they produce, from the intricate details of the sculpted models to the precision engineering of their production molds.

One of the most recent projects to emerge from Regal Robot's workshop is a stunning new interpretation of an iconic symbol from one of the most beloved franchises of all time – Star Wars. This sculpt features a unique visual identity and is crafted with meticulous attention to detail, from the intricate textures of the armor to the subtle weathering effects that give it a battle-hardened look.

Regal Robot's team has also been working on a new limited-edition product, a belt buckle made from solid pewter that's cast in the USA. This stunning piece features a unique paint job and comes with a numbered certificate, making it a truly special collector's item. As our artist notes, "we're doing 300 pieces this is solid pewter cast in the USA hand tarnished each one has a little bit of a unique paint on it."

The Process of Making Furniture: More Than Just Mass Production

When it comes to creating intricate sculptures and molds, there's often a misconception that the process is streamlined and efficient. However, Regal Robot's team is committed to using traditional techniques and materials whenever possible.

"We're not making a thousand Han Carbonite discs," says our artist. "We're making this here in the shop with local help local talent sculptors exact cetera. It's all hand-finished everything gets a lot of love and care into it everything takes a lot of time." This commitment to quality and craftsmanship is evident in every piece they produce, from the intricate details of the sculpted models to the precision engineering of their production molds.

The Art of Collaboration: Working with Lucasfilm

Regal Robot's team has been working closely with Lucasfilm for several years now, creating stunning sculptures and molds that have captured the imaginations of fans around the world. As our artist notes, "we're in a really good place with Lucasfilm right now. We've got an ongoing relationship and we're constantly coming up with new ideas and projects."

In fact, Regal Robot's team has been working on a number of exciting new projects with Lucasfilm, including several pieces that will be showcased at upcoming conventions and events. As our artist notes, "we have about 100 ideas in the works right now and it's not an exaggeration. We're really excited to see what the future holds for us."

What's Next: A Glimpse into Regal Robot's Future Projects

As we look to the future, Regal Robot's team is eager to share some of their upcoming projects with fans around the world. From pub tables to limited-edition collectibles, it seems that there's something new and exciting on the horizon for this talented group of artisans.

One thing is certain: whatever lies ahead, Regal Robot's commitment to quality, craftsmanship, and creativity will remain at the forefront of everything they do. As our artist notes, "we're going to keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible with sculpting and molding. We can't wait to see what the future holds."

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys I've always said that you need to follow your dream job and it might not even be a job that already exists and as a case in point I'm in a Long Island studio of my friend Tom subpoena who restores and reifies beautiful old Hollywood props and is the proprietor of regal robot makers of Star Wars furniture that's an actual business model that you are making work yes and we are looking at a piece of Star Wars furniture right here I don't think any Star Wars fan needs prompting but talk to me about this town sure no and you're really right and I've always said you know it's like I definitely did not take the easy road it's kind of like what what is this stuff that we're good at what is kind of cool what are these things I want to do in life and like I couldn't get a job doing it so I made it huh really also made this so this is an in progress okay Millennium Falcon asteroid coffee table it's one of regal robots premiere products one of our high-end super limited handmade hand assembled pieces of furniture is and when you say that we're looking at a Millennium Falcon you you built this you yeah you made this from so right now yeah this isn't like a toy that we're painting in here this isn't one of the existing models this is actually here's the this is the master that we used so this comes from the IOM files for Star Tours so being a Lucas from licensee sometimes you get access to cool things like that and what we did was we took that and had Gordon Tarpley our mutual friend you have modified it digitally he then broke the thing up we printed it on a form to 3d printer I say many many pieces and Steve here at the studio took much more time assembling it and also refining all of the details now that it was printed now that we had it in physical space we could say like okay let's punch this up let's punch that up let's make you know find a way to make this moldable right I was gonna say it's each one of these isn't 3d printed you made a master 3d printing and then you made a mold right so we now have a silicone and fiberglass mold of this mat because there yeah Wow I don't even know where you get started molding something this complex well it what's interesting is we got started by removing this little piece right here oh because there's a deep undercut in the mandibles and once that piece is out of the equation all of a sudden we could come up with a two-part mold for this and we made the seam line right along the top edge or the bottom edge I believe uh-huh and you can see the edge of them a little draft there and the reason for that is you know obviously this is not a proper replica right this is an inspired by piece that said we're prop guys we're monster maker to get as close close your shop gets to say every morning oh I'm gonna go in and paint the Millennium Falcon again right oh so was there a TIE fighter at some point in the design so shouldn't there be one crash yeah yeah stuff on a rock we at one point this is several years ago we did an incarnation of this as a one-off mhm and just put it out there online yeah and it went viral much like 10 years ago we made the Han Solo in carbonite desk that went crazy viral and it was stuff like that was the genesis for regal robot it was something where we had all of these ideas you know we did the Han Carbonite desk and then we said oh you know it would be cool rich Riley who was one of our top foam guys he's not here today but he's famous for going you know would be cool and then genius comes out like this was a you know it would be cool idea okay but you mentioned the Han Solo desk can we walk over it that is that's one of the first things I saw of yours in the furniture Department come on over here this this this is I mean this is one of your first product right this is silver this was yeah when we said we're doing Regal robot we're gonna make Star Wars furniture and decor and art yeah we have to do the hung Carbonite death so people are gonna have a Noah's for it we have to do a Han Carbonite every when this came up on the RPF people started freaking out they lost their minds it was the first viral thing that we did it was before viral was even a thing yes book no Twitter it was just like well what happened here all of a sudden cuz the email came in so this new version we got to scan the original prop we utilized the old you know kind of 90s mold that's out there for the body which was in pretty good shape but we 3d printed the feet the hands and the face uh and then merge those into it and then we went in and we we sharpened up all of this stuff to match the original again brought back all that details over the years and I can faithfully I can honestly say this is the most faithful version that is out there of that that prop what is it but I just have to ask yeah but like what what kind of person just wants to be staring at it immobilized Harrison Ford while they work okay time to sign some bills really is it's magnificent and hey do you make different versions of this so for right now we actually we do have a custom one in the works one of the cool things with regal robot is we're not just doing products right we have the ability with Lucas ohm to do custom one-of-a-kind pieces for fans out there that are officially licensed products and so right now we're doing a version of this for someone that is bar height and has narrower side panels so that they can fit two stools behind it and we're doing some custom stools for them too that are really cool and I can't wait to share those oh man maybe even some glasses like from us this is incredible thank you and of course this one so you know we're in the way from that original one where we had the full Carbonite block we made this a little more streamlined this is a little clear functional cab yes babinicz there are drawers as a file drawer soft-close hinges all of that and on the side oh you've got the Empire the Bespin Carbonite chamber - and it reveals in this case an aluminum underneath right which just kind of ties everything together but it's that little hint it's that it's letting people know is like we get it right right no this is not this is not some big faceless company out there these are we are passionate passionate Star Wars fans here did you have the same feeling which I do which is Harrison Ford seems to have abnormally large hands he does have a very large well I wonder though those may not actually be Harrison Ford's hands they might be something something Gawain bosque I'm actually having a sense memory of having a conversation with Richard Miller uh-huh about the about the putting together of this particular is one of the key sculptors at Industrial Light and Magic and sculpted lay as bikini and Nelson my understanding is that from the neck down this is the actor who played Bosque and the face is actually Harrison Ford that was brought in a story warned basis yes in that pained expression oh my god it was really neat seeing that face after we got that 3d print side by side with the old molds that were out there the elusive the elusive and all of that and just seeing how much different they were and how you know how much was last along the way and just how much truer this new scan was it was really cool to work with okay you have a third piece from regal robots to show me yes yeah we have a handful of pieces all right let's let's go take a look well now speaking of someone who would enjoy sitting at a han Solo desk the Mandalorian skull you've got here yeah so everybody kind of knows this as I know it as a bantha skull as a kid everybody now calls it a mythos or skull mythos or though is kind of in question in terms of cannon because they've rebooted the EU yeah we settled on with Lucasfilm Mandalorian skull it's a Mandalorian symbols so that's where we ended up and we've got a full range of products now that are based on the skull so it started with this little guy this is absolutely beautiful and the red tag is so we know that's our paint master we don't we sell that well this is what this is your reference for pain right so this is one of our one of our mold yeah real mold castings and that's you know each one is hand painted here in the studio everyone's a little bit unique right but we do it with washes and we capture all of this little intricate detail incredible now when you say that it's your paint master does that also mean that you sat in a conference room the folks from Lucasfilm and they went yeah this is it pretty much we were very fortunate are our contacts at Lucasfilm the people that work with us they definitely get it and they know we get it well I just had Matt just think of imagine like 12 year old you could never have imagined Mary come talking with the paint job of mental orient skull in their conference no absolute like if I told my 12 year old self like if I had a time machine went back in time to my 12 year old self my 12 year old self would say oh my god time travel is real okay here we go LFL regal robots right you made it well ok so you've started to increase the size too so yeah so now we kind of we started with this sculpted by Mia Nakamura okay who's an effects friend of mine we also had her sculpt this giant size was amazing and you could see we up to the level of detail even a little further and this one's just a sample but this is right out of the production mold production paint this is how the the copies come to people yeah it's really gorgeous thank you when you talk about washes and when we do talk about weathering and painting on be tested the key is that it looks like oh maybe it's just shades of brown but there's so there's multiple colors in here to bring out to detail it isn't there it's it's actually a fairly simple thing it's only two or three colors on there but if you apply it right you can really capture a ton of detail and give that impression that there's much more going on like the first color just gives this oh you know but that second one is the darker wash really yes yeah and the cool thing is this is sculpted for a wash paint job oh you know I always say there are certain skulls that just sort of scream out for it you know it's it's groovy it's attached it's got a lot of little nooks and crannies if it ain't too since the totally that's a great way of saying oh that's beautiful oh my goodness thank you okay so that was that's the extension of this guy and that is actually the front half of the mold for this guy it's intense and if you thought there was a lot of detail on the piece oh wow and I could this is this is this isn't your current production mold this is a retired production yeah I can feel that it has already I can feel the silicone has already done its duty and I know the few castings yeah yeah this is this is one of the retirement but what genius came up with this is not an easy shape to mold a nice and congrats to me Oh for what she was able to do she you know I was looking at it maybe we make the horns removable and kill them maybe we do that and she said you know what I can come up with a shape and and make this work and boy did she these swoops in here just beautiful yeah what is that this that somehow he's able to come out of there very carefully there's actually a pole you have to do where you then let's see here it's the eyes go this way the nose has to go this way first and then so you have to kind of so you pull the whole mother mold off of it every time you have to yeah yeah there's just too much detail too much we didn't want to you know it's okay to have some undercut um yeah but this sculpt just needed that extra little oomph in we didn't want to take that away this is one of those hidden costs of people don't realize about silicone molding is you don't get an infinite number of casting sound passing limits the lifespan of the mold and it changes its properties you have a flexibility for the first casting that might not exist on the 8th yeah and you start to shift your your seams will start to shift as the silicone expands and contracts a little bit over time so you need to make new molds all the time to corruption go yeah yeah Wow it's really absolutely gorgeous I mean it's the engineering itself is gorgeous yeah it's a brilliant mold and she it's a brilliant sculpt I'm so thrilled with that oh and then this is our our newest interpretation so this I'll take you from sort of this is a a sort of mid-range and we said what could we do that's a little different give it visual identity and we said you know let's put it on a plaque it out this sort of mimics the shape of the symbol that's there and it's that mustard color that feels like it's the color of the armor with the little chips and the dirt you know and again all of this is hand painted right here every chip every weathering he's got the Harry Potter lighting but of course you've got to have an N word so this is a new sculpt it's not like a scan in any size and this is a relief sculpture in this case it is flat important one exactly and we've just got an open face mold this is one of the many production molds that we've got on this where we just do open face pores clean up the back it screws on to the back of the plaque and there's our copyright regal robot so something of the wouldn't it be cool if you yeah you get to actually call Lucasfilm every few weeks and go hey I have another wouldn't it be cool if what do you think it's it's pretty wouldn't it be cool if you could do that and this is this is my new belt buckle is that correct that's right that's right this is heavy enough it knock your pants actually that's so it's heavy metal right it's so we always wanted to do a limited edition Lucas home gave us the okay and we said we're doing 300 pieces this is solid pewter cast in the USA hand tarnished each one has a little bit of a unique paint on it the they all come with a numbered certificate this one happens to be our artist proof for the studio wonderful and it's really it's just so exciting to see this when I got the first test sample back yeah and I held and this is just a few ounces and this is over a pound it was just oh yeah this is we're gonna have to make this what when you talk to people about the stuff that you're doing what is the biggest misunderstanding they might have about making furniture along these lines I think for us anyway I think there's a little bit of people expect it to all be mass-produced overseas and people think you're making a thousand Han Carbonite discs you know this is you're making this here in the shop with local help local talent sculptors exact cetera and it's it's you know all you made all hand-finished everything gets a lot of love and care into it everything takes a lot of time and it's not you know we're doing on the big stuff one at a time I also love that you're using both the old some of the oldest technologies sculpting and painting some of the newest ones from 3d printing scanning to make sure that the accuracy is there and you know this is absolutely thrilling I make it do you can you give us a tease of what's next of projects there oh we have we have a lot in the works we actually have about and this isn't much of an exaggeration about a hundred ideas in with Lucasfilm right right that we are discussing it's it's this big book prioritizing yeah yeah that's exactly it within the next month or two we'll have some some tables that are pretty cool some pub tables mhm but and those are kind of nice sort of mere mortal type items they're accessible this is an ongoing relationship and you're gonna keep on releasing stuff we have yeah we have a lot of ideas in the future and I think over the next few months there's gonna be some really cool stuff on regal robot comm that's fabulous and we'll keep covering it on tested Tom thanks so much for showing us this amazing thank youhey guys I've always said that you need to follow your dream job and it might not even be a job that already exists and as a case in point I'm in a Long Island studio of my friend Tom subpoena who restores and reifies beautiful old Hollywood props and is the proprietor of regal robot makers of Star Wars furniture that's an actual business model that you are making work yes and we are looking at a piece of Star Wars furniture right here I don't think any Star Wars fan needs prompting but talk to me about this town sure no and you're really right and I've always said you know it's like I definitely did not take the easy road it's kind of like what what is this stuff that we're good at what is kind of cool what are these things I want to do in life and like I couldn't get a job doing it so I made it huh really also made this so this is an in progress okay Millennium Falcon asteroid coffee table it's one of regal robots premiere products one of our high-end super limited handmade hand assembled pieces of furniture is and when you say that we're looking at a Millennium Falcon you you built this you yeah you made this from so right now yeah this isn't like a toy that we're painting in here this isn't one of the existing models this is actually here's the this is the master that we used so this comes from the IOM files for Star Tours so being a Lucas from licensee sometimes you get access to cool things like that and what we did was we took that and had Gordon Tarpley our mutual friend you have modified it digitally he then broke the thing up we printed it on a form to 3d printer I say many many pieces and Steve here at the studio took much more time assembling it and also refining all of the details now that it was printed now that we had it in physical space we could say like okay let's punch this up let's punch that up let's make you know find a way to make this moldable right I was gonna say it's each one of these isn't 3d printed you made a master 3d printing and then you made a mold right so we now have a silicone and fiberglass mold of this mat because there yeah Wow I don't even know where you get started molding something this complex well it what's interesting is we got started by removing this little piece right here oh because there's a deep undercut in the mandibles and once that piece is out of the equation all of a sudden we could come up with a two-part mold for this and we made the seam line right along the top edge or the bottom edge I believe uh-huh and you can see the edge of them a little draft there and the reason for that is you know obviously this is not a proper replica right this is an inspired by piece that said we're prop guys we're monster maker to get as close close your shop gets to say every morning oh I'm gonna go in and paint the Millennium Falcon again right oh so was there a TIE fighter at some point in the design so shouldn't there be one crash yeah yeah stuff on a rock we at one point this is several years ago we did an incarnation of this as a one-off mhm and just put it out there online yeah and it went viral much like 10 years ago we made the Han Solo in carbonite desk that went crazy viral and it was stuff like that was the genesis for regal robot it was something where we had all of these ideas you know we did the Han Carbonite desk and then we said oh you know it would be cool rich Riley who was one of our top foam guys he's not here today but he's famous for going you know would be cool and then genius comes out like this was a you know it would be cool idea okay but you mentioned the Han Solo desk can we walk over it that is that's one of the first things I saw of yours in the furniture Department come on over here this this this is I mean this is one of your first product right this is silver this was yeah when we said we're doing Regal robot we're gonna make Star Wars furniture and decor and art yeah we have to do the hung Carbonite death so people are gonna have a Noah's for it we have to do a Han Carbonite every when this came up on the RPF people started freaking out they lost their minds it was the first viral thing that we did it was before viral was even a thing yes book no Twitter it was just like well what happened here all of a sudden cuz the email came in so this new version we got to scan the original prop we utilized the old you know kind of 90s mold that's out there for the body which was in pretty good shape but we 3d printed the feet the hands and the face uh and then merge those into it and then we went in and we we sharpened up all of this stuff to match the original again brought back all that details over the years and I can faithfully I can honestly say this is the most faithful version that is out there of that that prop what is it but I just have to ask yeah but like what what kind of person just wants to be staring at it immobilized Harrison Ford while they work okay time to sign some bills really is it's magnificent and hey do you make different versions of this so for right now we actually we do have a custom one in the works one of the cool things with regal robot is we're not just doing products right we have the ability with Lucas ohm to do custom one-of-a-kind pieces for fans out there that are officially licensed products and so right now we're doing a version of this for someone that is bar height and has narrower side panels so that they can fit two stools behind it and we're doing some custom stools for them too that are really cool and I can't wait to share those oh man maybe even some glasses like from us this is incredible thank you and of course this one so you know we're in the way from that original one where we had the full Carbonite block we made this a little more streamlined this is a little clear functional cab yes babinicz there are drawers as a file drawer soft-close hinges all of that and on the side oh you've got the Empire the Bespin Carbonite chamber - and it reveals in this case an aluminum underneath right which just kind of ties everything together but it's that little hint it's that it's letting people know is like we get it right right no this is not this is not some big faceless company out there these are we are passionate passionate Star Wars fans here did you have the same feeling which I do which is Harrison Ford seems to have abnormally large hands he does have a very large well I wonder though those may not actually be Harrison Ford's hands they might be something something Gawain bosque I'm actually having a sense memory of having a conversation with Richard Miller uh-huh about the about the putting together of this particular is one of the key sculptors at Industrial Light and Magic and sculpted lay as bikini and Nelson my understanding is that from the neck down this is the actor who played Bosque and the face is actually Harrison Ford that was brought in a story warned basis yes in that pained expression oh my god it was really neat seeing that face after we got that 3d print side by side with the old molds that were out there the elusive the elusive and all of that and just seeing how much different they were and how you know how much was last along the way and just how much truer this new scan was it was really cool to work with okay you have a third piece from regal robots to show me yes yeah we have a handful of pieces all right let's let's go take a look well now speaking of someone who would enjoy sitting at a han Solo desk the Mandalorian skull you've got here yeah so everybody kind of knows this as I know it as a bantha skull as a kid everybody now calls it a mythos or skull mythos or though is kind of in question in terms of cannon because they've rebooted the EU yeah we settled on with Lucasfilm Mandalorian skull it's a Mandalorian symbols so that's where we ended up and we've got a full range of products now that are based on the skull so it started with this little guy this is absolutely beautiful and the red tag is so we know that's our paint master we don't we sell that well this is what this is your reference for pain right so this is one of our one of our mold yeah real mold castings and that's you know each one is hand painted here in the studio everyone's a little bit unique right but we do it with washes and we capture all of this little intricate detail incredible now when you say that it's your paint master does that also mean that you sat in a conference room the folks from Lucasfilm and they went yeah this is it pretty much we were very fortunate are our contacts at Lucasfilm the people that work with us they definitely get it and they know we get it well I just had Matt just think of imagine like 12 year old you could never have imagined Mary come talking with the paint job of mental orient skull in their conference no absolute like if I told my 12 year old self like if I had a time machine went back in time to my 12 year old self my 12 year old self would say oh my god time travel is real okay here we go LFL regal robots right you made it well ok so you've started to increase the size too so yeah so now we kind of we started with this sculpted by Mia Nakamura okay who's an effects friend of mine we also had her sculpt this giant size was amazing and you could see we up to the level of detail even a little further and this one's just a sample but this is right out of the production mold production paint this is how the the copies come to people yeah it's really gorgeous thank you when you talk about washes and when we do talk about weathering and painting on be tested the key is that it looks like oh maybe it's just shades of brown but there's so there's multiple colors in here to bring out to detail it isn't there it's it's actually a fairly simple thing it's only two or three colors on there but if you apply it right you can really capture a ton of detail and give that impression that there's much more going on like the first color just gives this oh you know but that second one is the darker wash really yes yeah and the cool thing is this is sculpted for a wash paint job oh you know I always say there are certain skulls that just sort of scream out for it you know it's it's groovy it's attached it's got a lot of little nooks and crannies if it ain't too since the totally that's a great way of saying oh that's beautiful oh my goodness thank you okay so that was that's the extension of this guy and that is actually the front half of the mold for this guy it's intense and if you thought there was a lot of detail on the piece oh wow and I could this is this is this isn't your current production mold this is a retired production yeah I can feel that it has already I can feel the silicone has already done its duty and I know the few castings yeah yeah this is this is one of the retirement but what genius came up with this is not an easy shape to mold a nice and congrats to me Oh for what she was able to do she you know I was looking at it maybe we make the horns removable and kill them maybe we do that and she said you know what I can come up with a shape and and make this work and boy did she these swoops in here just beautiful yeah what is that this that somehow he's able to come out of there very carefully there's actually a pole you have to do where you then let's see here it's the eyes go this way the nose has to go this way first and then so you have to kind of so you pull the whole mother mold off of it every time you have to yeah yeah there's just too much detail too much we didn't want to you know it's okay to have some undercut um yeah but this sculpt just needed that extra little oomph in we didn't want to take that away this is one of those hidden costs of people don't realize about silicone molding is you don't get an infinite number of casting sound passing limits the lifespan of the mold and it changes its properties you have a flexibility for the first casting that might not exist on the 8th yeah and you start to shift your your seams will start to shift as the silicone expands and contracts a little bit over time so you need to make new molds all the time to corruption go yeah yeah Wow it's really absolutely gorgeous I mean it's the engineering itself is gorgeous yeah it's a brilliant mold and she it's a brilliant sculpt I'm so thrilled with that oh and then this is our our newest interpretation so this I'll take you from sort of this is a a sort of mid-range and we said what could we do that's a little different give it visual identity and we said you know let's put it on a plaque it out this sort of mimics the shape of the symbol that's there and it's that mustard color that feels like it's the color of the armor with the little chips and the dirt you know and again all of this is hand painted right here every chip every weathering he's got the Harry Potter lighting but of course you've got to have an N word so this is a new sculpt it's not like a scan in any size and this is a relief sculpture in this case it is flat important one exactly and we've just got an open face mold this is one of the many production molds that we've got on this where we just do open face pores clean up the back it screws on to the back of the plaque and there's our copyright regal robot so something of the wouldn't it be cool if you yeah you get to actually call Lucasfilm every few weeks and go hey I have another wouldn't it be cool if what do you think it's it's pretty wouldn't it be cool if you could do that and this is this is my new belt buckle is that correct that's right that's right this is heavy enough it knock your pants actually that's so it's heavy metal right it's so we always wanted to do a limited edition Lucas home gave us the okay and we said we're doing 300 pieces this is solid pewter cast in the USA hand tarnished each one has a little bit of a unique paint on it the they all come with a numbered certificate this one happens to be our artist proof for the studio wonderful and it's really it's just so exciting to see this when I got the first test sample back yeah and I held and this is just a few ounces and this is over a pound it was just oh yeah this is we're gonna have to make this what when you talk to people about the stuff that you're doing what is the biggest misunderstanding they might have about making furniture along these lines I think for us anyway I think there's a little bit of people expect it to all be mass-produced overseas and people think you're making a thousand Han Carbonite discs you know this is you're making this here in the shop with local help local talent sculptors exact cetera and it's it's you know all you made all hand-finished everything gets a lot of love and care into it everything takes a lot of time and it's not you know we're doing on the big stuff one at a time I also love that you're using both the old some of the oldest technologies sculpting and painting some of the newest ones from 3d printing scanning to make sure that the accuracy is there and you know this is absolutely thrilling I make it do you can you give us a tease of what's next of projects there oh we have we have a lot in the works we actually have about and this isn't much of an exaggeration about a hundred ideas in with Lucasfilm right right that we are discussing it's it's this big book prioritizing yeah yeah that's exactly it within the next month or two we'll have some some tables that are pretty cool some pub tables mhm but and those are kind of nice sort of mere mortal type items they're accessible this is an ongoing relationship and you're gonna keep on releasing stuff we have yeah we have a lot of ideas in the future and I think over the next few months there's gonna be some really cool stuff on regal robot comm that's fabulous and we'll keep covering it on tested Tom thanks so much for showing us this amazing thank you\n"