For those that have never seen Adam Savage's TED talk on his prop-making, it's fascinating and well worth the 15 minutes of your time: http://www.ted.com/talks/

For those that have never seen Adam Savage's TED talk on his prop-making, it's fascinating and well worth the 15 minutes of your time: http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_savage_s_obsessions.html http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_savage_s_obsessions.html I was particularly interested by his research and collection of reference images, but his whole process/thinking is fascinating (and awesome).