Yesterday’s work at the studio

I had all these plans for the day. Work on the Laser blast sculpture and pain a mask for a customer. The mask was still a bit wet in the mold so no go there. I looked at the sculpture and then went upstairs to get some things I needed. What I saw was a mess I have been meaning to clean up for months. Stacks of models both built and unbuilt. Un flown as well.

I decide it was time for a purge. So many of these things I’ll never finish. My priorities are changing as I grow older. I thought, get rid of the things you will never build or fly. So I did just that. I gave away the Wright Flyer. The client fell off the face of the map and I don’t hear from him anymore. Many attempts to email and contact have failed and it’s been months. I don’t need or care to build a Wright Flyer so it went to a happy home.

5 boost gliders I will never fly. Basically because there’s no safe place to fly them. The desert isn’t an option. They’d be torn up there on landing on the first flight. So I took pictures and put them all up for sale for local pickup only, including the unfinished space shuttle. They are all currently for sale.

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As I started to fill up the dumpster outside with many things I could never sell or even give away it felt good to lighten my load. I uncovered projects I did care about and could now have the space to finish and see.

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I put in the trash tons of model plans I’ll never build of need. Half of them were built. I also tossed out kits that would be never built and no one wanted. Boxes, old equipment and more. It felt so good I feel like I can think clearly once more.

I am keeping some of my RC planes but many have gone to new homes. Some free flight models too. And I only have 3 RC subs now. I’m keeping the RC gliders because I love those the best. No more jets either. I did keep one small F-15 EDF.

Rockets? I kept them all. I love them and fly them all the time.

Tomorrow this expensive beautiful boat hits the waters for the very first time. This large RC sailboat is a keeper. So are the other 4 I have. Nothing like relaxing on the waters edge while sailing.

After nearly 40 years of flying everything from the SR-71 to the Bell X-1 at blistering speeds and screaming sounds it’s time to relax and enjoy the silence and peace of gliders, free flight flying, and sailing for me. It’s less complicated and serene.

And I do have that slot car track at home. 😉