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29/05/2026

A few more memories from the scorching Masters of the Universe London premiere this week!

📸 Red carpet.

📸 FBFX’s Grant Pearmian with Masters of the Universe costume designer Richard Sale.

📸 Director Travis Knight's speech ahead of the screening (L-R Nicholas Galitzine, Camila Mendes, Charlotte Riley, James Purefoy and Travis Knight).

27/05/2026

Masters of the Universe London premiere!

A wonderful evening celebrating the release of Masters of the Universe in Leicester Square.

FBFX fabricated two costumes, designed by Richard Sale, for the film: Tri-Klops, played by Kojo Attah (arms fabricated by Barrie Gower) and Mekaneck, played by James Wilkinson.

21/05/2026

Looking forward to seeing some of our work in Masters of the Universe, in cinemas June 5th!

Costume design by Richard Sale, Mekaneck played by James Wilkinson, Tri-Klops played by Kojo Attah (arms fabricated by Barrie Gower).

18/05/2026

How Vollebak made the Sonic Jacket, engineered by FBFX.

https://vollebak.com/pages/the-sonic-jacket-behind-the-scenes

15/05/2026

Team FBFX at the launch of Vollebak's Sonic Jacket, built by FBFX, at the Spaceshop in Covent Garden.

If you're in London and want to check out the Sonic Jacket, along with Vollebak's one-off mycelium jacket, the Bang & Olufsen-packed, SAGA Space Architect designed Spaceshop itself and some of the brand's incredible clothes, the Spaceshop will be open today and tomorrow.

To find out more about the creation of the Sonic Jacket, head to the link in the comments!

15/05/2026

Introducing the Sonic Jacket. Engineered for Vollebak by FBFX.

Humans have used frequency and patterned sound to change how they feel for thousands of years – generating calm, ecstasy and even a little bit of enlightenment. From drums around fires and chanting in stone chambers, to rattles and flutes in ceremonies of healing and initiation. Now we’ve taken ...

13/05/2026

Happy birthday to us! Today, FBFX turns 33. Here's a couple of the hundreds of brilliant projects we've been lucky enough to work on over the years.

Watching the runaway success of Project Hail Mary, with costume design by David Crossman and Glyn Dillon, has been a real pleasure. FBFX made the hard components (helmet, backpack and chest plate) for the film's beautiful red spacesuit, with the soft suit fabricated by the talented in-house team.

It was a particularly special job for us, coming 10 years after The Martian, another memorable adaptation of an Andy Weir novel.

Again, we fabricated the hard elements for the orange surface suit and the white EVA suit, and it was this job that really turbo-charged our spacesuit journey.

Costume design for The Martian was by Janty Yates, with Michael Mooney as associate spacesuit costume designer. Fabric elements for the EVA were by Rob Allsopp & Associates, while the surface suits were made by an in-house team including neoprene specialist Shirley Wilson and dimensional printing pioneer Steve Gell.

07/05/2026

Bringing Wolverine to the screen...

During Tested's last visit to FBFX, our head of paint Anadora Peralta talked Adam Savage through the process of finding the exactly the right look for the wings on Wolverine's cowl.

With options covering sleek and subtle, heavily weathered, eyeliner swooshes, leather textures, matte, gloss and satin blacks and meticulously refined shades of blue, FBFX worked closely with the Marvel team over several months before settling on the final design.

Anadora told Adam how it feels to watch your work on screen at the end of the process - and how she loves to see cosplayers' approaches to creating their own versions.

Costume design for Deadpool & Wolverine by Mayes C. Rubeo and Graham Churchyard, vis dev by Ryan Meinerding and Andy Park.

FBFX's head of paint Anadora Peralta walks Adam through her paint tests for painting the iconic blue fins of Wolverine's cowl for Marvel Studios' Deadpool & ...

04/05/2026

Sometimes, even we put the decimal point in the wrong place...

A supersized outtake from the building of Darth Vader's helmet for Obi-Wan Kenobi!

Spot the correct size component in the following pics.

04/05/2026

This Star Wars Day, a look back at one of the most iconic characters we’ve been fortunate enough to build at FBFX: Darth Vader.

This iteration of the character was for 2022’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series - a fighting Vader, with a costume that would honour the original while allowing for plenty of stunt work and action.

Working closely with costume designer Suttirat Larlarb and Lucasfilm, every detail was carefully considered. We were supplied with incredible reference material including two screen-worn helmets - an absolute treat to have in the workshop!

The helmet was particularly complex. The design for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series incorporated elements from different films, including Episode IV and Rogue One. With the Darth Vader helmet, it’s vital to maintain the handworked asymmetry of the original, so in the era of CAD design the challenge was to replicate just the right amount of asymmetry while using modern manufacturing techniques.

Perfecting the chest box fixings involved lots of prototyping and experimentation, the original buttons and switches recreated digitally, cleaned, printed, remoulded and recast. The electronics were designed at FBFX, with the lights individually controlled via DMX.

The leather had to be just right. Multiple tests were carried out to find the right weight and feel, the leather handworked for the ideal level of crinkle, which was then sewn into place.

To allow for the all-important action, the shoulders were attached with elastic so they could snap back into place, and the mantle strapped to a harness through each layer of the costume to maintain position.

We couldn’t have done any of this without the help of the brilliant Lynda Foote and her costume team.

As lifelong Star Wars fans inspired to go into costume making by the original films, the chance to build a Vader was something we’d waited a lifetime to do!

Check out Tested's look at this suit via the link in the comments.