By now many of you are probably getting bored with the constant updates on the Enterprise build. These models take lots of time to make and consume everything else around them like a black hole until they are done. In the meantime I thought I’d show you something else from my work to break things up a bit.

I’d like to share with you two films I did over the last few years. At the time they were more controversial than today in light of the evidence and information being released by our government and science with regards to other intelligences in the universe and possibly visiting here.

Both are based on personal experience and the third in the series (being finished as I write this) is also related in a way most wouldn’t suspect. Bottom line is for me all these phenomena are connected and related because of our deep connection with everything that exists around us, from this Earth to the furthest reaches of the cosmos. 

They are listed on the Film page of this website but I doubt few ever notice them. So I’ll post them here on the front page. They are honest and in no way claim to have the goods on this subject. It’s just what happened and has happened to millions of people. None of us know what we don’t know. But I’ll tell you for sure, “But Something is There”.

Enjoy.

Not much to tell today. I spent the day helping Mary build a table we needed for the shop and then a couple of hours on the Enterprise. 

I glued shut the nacelles after I got the little blue LEDs placed that I was missing. I also gapped one of them with Tamiya putty. It really fills the gaps and blocks the light leaks well. 

It’s my hope today I can attach the pylons and move on to the last of the light effects on the saucer section.

Needless to say the day was spent on the Enterprise. I had to work out all the wiring and how it would travel from the saucer section to the engineering section with the least amount of clutter. 

All the wiring for this phase was non-board driven. In other words, only the lights that have no blinking or flashing. Today I’ll start routing those. In the end I should have no more than 6 wire cables traveling through the brass stem to the board and main power.

 The nacelles will be closed up today and attached to the pylons and the pylons to the engineering section.

Because of the difficulties of posting this on the blog related to pictures the newsletter is hosted for free on Buy Me a Coffee. Click on the link to read about this last weeks and all the things we did.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SNGStudio/sng-newsletter-5-13-2023

Yes there was more work on plastic models yesterday and it will remain that way until next month when this model needs to be done along with one another that’s not started yet.

I had to pack in 4 LED’s, three resistors and a bunch of other stuff into this tiny nacelle and it took 4 days to do it. Not to mention the single LED attached to fiber optics that acts as the strobe lights that blink very brightly. I managed to capture it on a blink in one photo.

The second nacelle will be done in one day and hopefully the engineering section done as well. It will be easier to work on as it’s a bit more roomy.

I had a mail call yesterday and a very special package arrived from New Zealand from my friend John Warren of MVD resins. He makes fine resin bodies for vintage racing cars from the gold era of racing no one else has.

This is the 1/32 scale Maserati 250 F I spoke of before and this will make a delicious project to work on at home in my slot car cave. 

In addition to that my 1/24 scale 917k Porsche will be my next build for the hard body races in Buena park. Like the Mclaren I recently built this will have a scratch built chassis in brass. This will all keep me busy for a while.

I have been asked by many, “When will you make some new masks sculptures?”. My answer to that is be patient, I have to finish these modeling projects for a friend first and my racing season. Then I’ll get back to it.

I spent the day getting tires on the Fiat(the old racing tires were dangerous), shopping groceries, and working on the Enterprise E.

It was pleasure to get away from scribing windows. I did tests to get the nacelles lighted in the best way possible. I first tried the small strip lights that Randy Neubert put in the lighting kit. They were a bit sorcy and showed the individual blue dot LEDs on the strip.

So I tired his original concept and used thin plastic tubes he sent along and mounted a bright 3 mm LED at either end of the tube and that worked so well I was dancing!

I lit up the bussards in red using his diffusion and that worked well too. Now that that’s done I can do the other nacelle and install the strobe lights.

Needless to say my life at the studio has been a broken record the last week or more until I have a bad shoulder from repetitive motion doing all these windows but they are all scribed now!

This means I can move on to things like lighting the nacelles and placing anti collision and NAV lights in the model. Close it all up and blocking the light leaks.

That’s all for today’s post.

So I was packing up the Battlestar Galactica model yesterday. It took awhile because it has to survive a great deal of rough handling before it gets to Arizona.

I packed it in bubble wrap and more bubble wrap. And put it in a box and then put it in another box surrounded by peanuts. I have done this in the past with very successful results on the receiving end. 

After that I finished off the day working on the engineering section of the Enterprise E scribing out more windows. I should finish this task today and I can move on to assembling this model.

I came home and finished things off with more CAD studies as I prepare to make my own model kits available to the public.

Lastly before the evening closes my favorite time at the track with shots and laps. These are the cars I ran. Two of them I built from scratch. What a hobby.

It was a nice weekend and I usually don’t post about the weekend because I’m not at the studio but as Mary p[ointed out to me this morning the only separation from the Studio home and the house we live is 15 minutes by car. They are both our homes.

I brought the Enterprise E to the house this weekend so if I had a moment I could scribe out more windows. I did that yesterday and finished the saucer section. That’s a huge deal as it moves me along a bit faster as June 14th approaches. That’s the due date.

I still have the engineering section to do but now that I scribe out countless windows on the saucer section I have established a technique that works well. This means this section of the model will happen faster and it’s my hope to finish all the windows today.

Saturday Mary and I took a brief gunt down the street from our house to the harbor for an art show. The place where this took place is reminiscent of Amity island. This abandoned building caught my eye as we parked the car.

Much of the weekend was spent editing shows and resting. I finally watched Ford vs Ferrari. How I missed this one I’ll never know because racing has always been in my blood. My dad was a driver and I grew up in garages with famous drivers that were his friends and their cars. I went to the track often with my dad and watched the races and met the giants of racing. I enjoyed the film very much.

One of the shows I cut this weekend is my regular weekly show, “Slot Car Fun”.

This show is growing in popularity and content as I go to the races and document them as well as interview the drivers and track owners of slot cars.

It was a nice weekend and now it’s back to the Studio today.