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Prop making / Tungsten Media × Xapo Bank

A bank vault, built for camera.

Vault door and hero safe · Large scenic props and practical electronics

A life-size bank vault door, designed from scratch and built from 130 3D-printed parts.

Two presenters with a copper safe and vault door on the finished campaign set

The build

  • Full-scale vault door with custom integrated RGB lighting
  • CAD-designed, 3D-printed in sections and finished as aged copper
  • Matching hero safe and backup, built for a game show segment with a functioning encoder wheel
  • Shot for a campaign fronted by Premier League players, deployed in one day
Explore my prop making process ↗
CAD model of the safe dial and handle on a computer screen
Curved vault-door panel and tools spread across a workshop bench
Camera monitor showing the sofa set with the vault door behind it
Copper-coloured vault door being fitted with rows of small lights
Circular vault-door face lying flat in the workshop before assembly
Copper safe prop with a numbered dial and handle on a workbench
Two crew members fitting the illuminated vault door into the set
Finished copper safe prop standing beside the campaign set sofa
Completed vault door installed in a grey wall with its lights on
Two matching copper safe props stacked in the workshop
Crew member adjusting the lighting beside the installed vault door
Footballer standing in front of the vault door on the finished set
Close-up of copper vault-door panels and their illuminated ring
Footballer beside the vault door beneath the Xapo Bank sign
Digital rendering of the vault-door design in a concrete wall

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