The Saga of the Cyclops mold has taken me 3 days. I would usually make a mold in one sitting or about an 8 hour day. But these days I need to pace myself and I have less time at the studio because of all the other things I have going on in my life.

I have been shooting video all along and will cut it this weekend. Today I open this mold and clean it out. That means next week I can start making and painting masks.

So far #1 has been pre-sold.

In all the crazy busy schedule of things going on at the Studio this week I managed to finish him.

Monday I begin the molding process. Masks soon.

This Cyclops is getting closer to the finish. I hope to mold this Friday. The upcoming video will explain and show more which should be live within an hour or two.

It’s been very hard to find any time to work on this Luscombe 8E Silvaire from Brodak. With studying for my PPL, going to Civil Air Patrol meetings, helping their cadets with their aerospace education program and running my studio it’s been a handful.

I got to work on it yesterday for a whole two hours. I needed the break and the zen. In that time I managed to frame the rest of the plane up and stick the parts together for a look.

Today at the end of the day I plan to shape sand the wing and add the ailerons.

The wing flattened nicely and replacing the balsa spars with spruce top and bottom really made the wing super strong. The weight increase was worth it for the strength. As it is this plane weighs very little ( maybe 11 oz.) and the 370 E-flite motor on 2s 1300’s will be more than enough power and give me long flights.

Wow what a day yesterday. It was all about visitors. We had a family come by. An old friend from out of town dropped in. I took my next door neighbor (who builds and races Kurtis midgets) over to my dear Manny Rodriguez fantastic Radical Auto Sports shop within walking distance of our studio to talk shop.

The day finished with Mary and I going to a Civil Air Patrol meeting last night where we met some new people, many of them pilots and aerospace. Capt. Pinero really gave us a lot more information about CAP and what we can expect being members. It was very interesting.

Mary and I both noticed that in our recent education to become pilots we could understand the aviation terms, acronyms and language. It showed us how rewarding our efforts have been.

Today is the Dentist. Oh boy. That usually shoots the day.

Friday I have more visitors and a favour of vacuum forming to do for a high school student. Thursday, last I checked is a day I can actually work on the Cyclops. I’m hoping to finish the sculpture. Next week I go into LA to pick up supplies to mold the Cyclops.

Saturday we have our first production meeting for our film, A Conversation with my Father”. We will be shooting in late October.

With the excessive heat the last few days it’s been very warm in our studio. I’m having to move my sculpting into the front of our studio where we do have AC. The back bay has none. 

So if you’re waiting on your order please be patient. Our studio is getting busy again and with helping the community and our own film production things might take a little longer than usual to get made and shipped.

We would like to take this time to acknowledge the generous contributions from the people listed below for helping us with our production of our next film, “A Conversation with my Father”.  The current contributions are being used for sound equipment and props. We have 2 weeks remaining in our Indiegogo campaign for funding this film.Our  film is a heartwarming story of hope for our world. It will change the way you look at life forever. This isn’t a science fiction film or a film about aliens. It’s not a fantasy film and it is based on a true story. This film is art. It’s not being made for profit. It’s being made to share freely with everyone to experience and 

enjoy. To enter the film in film festivals, it costs money. It’s our hope that the film will have enough appeal that it will lead to more film making.We have two new scripts currently. “Forever Flight” and “In My Life”. “Forever flight” is a story about the magic of flight. “In My Life” is a great sci-fi story with a twist.In order to keep making films, for the sake of art in film, we need your support. Everyone that contributes will get credit on the film. You can, as well, get involved and be on set or help us with production.All our films are stories that offer solutions, hope, and positive outcomes for a troubled world. Hope for a better world is our intention.

Thank you.

Eliot Brown
Glen H Kramer
Liz Snyder
Alan Haskell
Gary Hughes

Ve Neill

Dave Ford

David Alan Graf

We had a great time at the air show this weekend where we spent two days in a hangar talking to many interested families who would like to get the children involved in model rocketry.The airshow was spectacular and a lot of fun. We were invited to attend to participate in the STEM Pavilion with our Ventura Rocketeers NAR section 855 group.

Here’s a few pictures from the event. I’ll have video and more pictures posted later this week.

In closing I’d like to point out that many parents saw the extreme importance of listening to their child’s interest and supporting it. Model flight of any kind is the gateway to a better life for these children that will grow up to have amazing careers in aviation and science.

One family had a 3 year old that craved rockets and airplanes. I asked the parents where this came from? They replied he was born that way.

We let him hold a rocket in his hands and his face lit up like a newborn star. It was an amazing moment. This boy will probably walk on Mars one day and it’s because his parents saw and supported the light in his eyes.

This is why we keep trying to find that field locally so these children can build their dreams and see them fly into the sky. It’s the most important thing we can do.

Please listen to your children. Support their interests. I saw that many parents didn’t share their children’s interest and just tugged them away from our table. It was very sad. Others said they were sending their kids to Space Camp. That’s what we call, “The Right Stuff”.