{"product_id":"warts-and-wax-robert-stannage-9781067147235","title":"Warts and Wax: A Kick Bollock Scramble-Art finishing six major films","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWarts and Wax: A Kick-Bollock-Scramble Behind the Paint on Six Major Film Sets\u003c\/em\u003e is the book the practical-effects world almost never gets to write. The \"Art of\" and \"Making Of\" volumes lining bookshop shelves are written \u003cem\u003eabout\u003c\/em\u003e the technicians who build the movies-by journalists and historians working from publicity stills and after-the-fact interviews. This is something rarer: a fully illustrated, 174-page memoir written and photographed from the bench itself by one of the artists who actually held the brush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Stannage is a UK scenic artist and fabricator with twenty years' screen-credited experience art-working on props, miniatures, vehicles, and set pieces. Drawing on a personal archive of over 200 exclusive reference and continuity photographs-his own, taken on the job and never intended for publicity-the book spans six of the most visually ambitious productions of the last decade: \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner 2049\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/em\u003e sequel trilogy, \u003cem\u003ePrometheus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeauty and the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMary Poppins Returns\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Legend of Tarzan\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere official making-of books show the polish, \u003cem\u003eWarts and Wax\u003c\/em\u003e shows the workshop: concept art being physically translated onto miniatures and full-scale sets, often under brutal deadlines and worse working conditions, long before digital post-production smooths the result into the image audiences finally see. It is warts-and-all by design-candid about the industry's pressures and politics, but never bitter. The voice is conversational and often very funny; the craft knowledge underneath it is the kind that rarely survives in print at all, because the people who hold it are usually too busy working to write it down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor film buffs, prop makers, scale modellers, and anyone fascinated by how the movies are really made, this is the view from behind the paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Stannage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1067147233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781067147235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert S\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Robert Stannage","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50593656340735,"sku":"9781067147235","price":124.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18445ae5-e153-4514-956e-2ca2cac5df71.jpg?v=1791122598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/warts-and-wax-robert-stannage-9781067147235","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}