The week was spent on model building for hire and website work. We still haven’t recovered from the PayPal debacle as it cascaded through our little business from our bank account to our stores and websites. We have spent countless mornings and afternoons sorting out this mess so we can have a convenient way for our customers to purchase masks, props, art, and rocket kits.
SNG Studio now has a Shop on Buy Me a Coffee where you can quickly see what the Studio has.. One can merely click Buy Now see everything we have so far in our Shop.(we are still populating it, so if you don’t see something you want, you can just ask us. Everything should be there soon.)
When you are at the Buy Me a Coffee site, you will see the Shop listed at the top. So “Buy me a Coffee” is more than a place to support the Studio but also a store now.
As for PayPal? They are still waiting to hear back from Chewy, (the cloned site went poof) until sometime in June and they are holding a lot of money of ours until they do hear back from the non-existent site. They won’t. so maybe we’ll get our money back. Either way I would never ever use PayPal again.
So, back to what we are doing at SNG Studio. I finished the beautiful TOS (the original series) Battlestar Galactica.
I’m now starting on the Star Trek Enterprise E designed by John Eaves that has more windows than Carter has pills!
The model is small and the windows tiny. How do you get them to light up? Well, thanks to Lou Delmaso, he reminded me with a model this small, you can’t drill out, file, and fill canopy glue in every window. One puts a lot of paint on the outside of the hull so when lighted from the inside it blocks the light. Then it’s a simple matter of scribing out every freaking window removing the paint so the windows glow. Sounds easy enough but it’s not. It takes days.
This has taken all this week. I took it home to work on over the weekend. Glen Kramer is coming on the 14th of June to pick it up. Once I finish all the windows, it will go a lot faster. I still have the engineering section to do as well.
This is what she will look like finished. This is a shot from the film “First Contact”. An excellent Star Trek movie that I highly recommend.
Somewhere in there, I finished the Mclaren M8B 1/24 scale slot car. It will be first raced at Buena Park Raceway this month. I will be building more in the future now that I have all the tools and means to build them. That was a hurdle to overcome just getting started. There’s a huge difference between buying a premade slot car and building your own and the adventure and challenge is well worth the effort.
Next up, in a couple of weeks I’ll be getting a small package from New Zealand (from my friend who makes a line of resin cast slot car bodies) a Maserati 250 short nose 1957 formula one car. It’s a body kit in 1/32 scale. I’ll be building the chassis from scratch in brass. Another great build of an historic race car from the golden age.
I’m very excited about this build.
Here’s the weekly video update if you dare. It documents the work Mary and I do at the studio every week. Yes you even get to see Mary doing her beautiful art both wood burning and alcohol ink this week.
Mary’s efforts this week:
Oh and one last thing. Charlotte the Fiat 124 Spider successfully passed smog and is registered. Mary and I are thrilled to be driving this classic sports car.
It was quite a week!
Thank you for all your support and love. Come and visit the Studio some Friday. We would love to see you. and, as always,
Stay Creative!
Steve and Mary
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