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graphics on it, so he painted the graphics on it. And then we finished the highlights on it by hand with a paintbrush. With makeup, we collaborated on how we placed blood. We didn't just bloody up people, we talked about it first with the director and figured out methodically how we should do this so it looks real and not campy. Or it looks like how it should look. Every department, from property to cra service, let us use their freezer to put in ice packs for the stunt actors on hot days when they get into the armor. Every department really worked as one. Do you have any tips/advice for working as a Set Costumer on these kinds of projects? Holtzman: Everyone should build their own tool kit. Take what you want when learning from people and leave what you don't want and just keep building it, just like a set bag or a set kit. You don't always need everything, but when you're young in the business, and early on, someone has something, or you see, 'oh my God, I goa get that,' and then you might not use it for 10 shows, but that's okay. Build yourself like you're building your belt and keep learning. Try not to be confrontational if you make a mistake. Do your best not to make it again. Own it, when you need to own it, focus on the cra and try to get along with everyone, because you never know—a PA one day could be your boss the next day. Let people guide the way and sometimes just go along with the ride, but also be true to yourself and you listen, speak when it's the right time. Just pick and choose your bales, it'll go a long way. Quon: Everybody on our team was happy to share their knowledge on our show. If we don't share our knowledge with other people, then the art is going to be lost. The cra is going to be lost and we don't want that to happen. I think it's important for the people that have been doing this for a long time to share your tricks and things that you know so that our cra can live on. If you're not learning something on a show, then something's wrong. You should always be learning and perfecting your cra. There's nobody in this business that knows how to do everything. Fittings On a show as large as Fallout, there are multiple prep teams and while the design team oversaw the entire show, they gave a lot of opportunity for the Background Pre-fit Costumers to exercise their creative costuming skills. Led by Key Costumer Christopher Lawrence, who also worked as the liaison to the BG Set Costumers and BG fitting teams, Beryl Brachman and Patrick Glendening fit hundreds of background for period flashback veteran halls, glamorous Las Vegas, post-nuclear fallout Vegas (Freeside), ghouls, and several factions. Christopher Lawrence: My role was really to costume the background for Dayna— she gave every note, and she looked at every change. I was able to free her up, and along with Patrick Glendening, Beryl Brachman, and Felicia Jarvis, we costumed all the background. We created all those costumes, and it was spectacular. We're creating so many original worlds that haven't been seen before, and we are communicating: I'm talking to the designer, I'm talking to the assistant designers, I'm talking to the head of the workroom and the [Paern Maker &] Fier, the alteration person, the Dyer and the Agers, along with the other 24 SUMMER 2026 ones who really blew me away with how quickly and how good they made things look. It's such an art form. The Fiers Beryl and Patrick would also come to set from time to time and help out on the bigger days. They could tell us something that happened in the fiing. All of this is moving so fast, it's not always on paper. They would give us that extra intel that we needed to do our jobs. I felt like we had really good communication with each other, there was always someone that we could call. We could call Christopher, we could call Annie, we could call Dayna directly. She was receptive to calling her, she wanted to know if something, even if you thought it was insignificant. She welcomed you calling her. Quon: Vinnie Jae is a great on-set painter. He is an amazing man who helped us out of so many problems: from paint chipping off, to broken shoes that we needed to repair, and then having them painted or matching color on something, or just fixing hanger burns on clothes. He would spray them, and the hanger burn would just scarcely be gone. He is very good at his cra, and you could not even tell that he did something to it. He got us out of many, many jams. He even went and made a stencil, a laser cut stencil, because we had a stole that didn't have the PHOTO: (TOP, LEFT) LORENZO SISTI/PRIME NCR Rangers in full armor.