Most people when they reach 69-70 years old seem to throttle back. But in my case I just push harder, work more and do more things I really love to do.I could just never retire and relax. To me that’s a ticket to an early grave. So this week I decided to do many projects at once.
I started out yesterday with making the first pass mold on the Cooper T-51 formula car body. From this mold I will produce a solid resin copy of the first pass. With the resin casting I can then work more precisely to point up the curves, adding panel lines and scribed details before I mold it a second time to make the production run mold.
This setup above is the car body ready to be poured with silicone. The mold is poured and today I’ll open it up and cast a master form.
The next thing I did was take the plans for my next U-boat project and enlarge them to the scale I need and using a PDF format I printed out the plans in poster mode and taped them together. I made the bulkheads too and cut them from thick styrene plastic and started the assembly of the Type 2 hull U-boat. I have always wanted a model of this early WW2 sub. Building this way I won’t need to make masters, molds and fiberglass castings. I just build the boat the way it was done back then but in styrene and it’s really cool! Something I always wanted to try.
Last but not at all least I started the Russian kit of the Star Wars Star Destroyer for a customer who I have built for in the past going back to 2012. This will be the third model I have built for him. It’s a very nice kit and goes together very well. I got a lot of parts on it yesterday. This model will be lighted just as it was in the movies.
It was a very full day. I plan another today with more progress on all three projects. I have been shooting video the whole time and three different build log videos will be posted at the end of this week showing you how this is all done in detail.
The Art of Steve Neill 
Like you I refuse to slow down. Life is to short to give up now. I will slow down for November and December, back in action in January.
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Thanks Bob! Good man!!
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Hello Steve.
Remember that you are very fortunate to work on something you love, but for the rest of us who work on jobs that really suck, things are a bit different. I am counting the minutes for my retirement.
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Ah but remember this…when you retire you’re not really retiring, but rather moving on to things you love to do. At nearly 70 I’m fortunate to be alive let alone doing things I love. And I still have work to keep up with my expenses. My two pensions only go so far.
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