After the Dick Smith Birthday celebration it was three days later I started to feel a bit sick. I tested for covid and came up negative. Still I got something that made me pretty sick and miserable for 9 days now. It’s much better now and I’m sure by tomorrow I’ll be out of the woods.

This was my mistake for not wearing a mask at the event. I started wearing one but then noticed knowone else was. Many people got close to me and I could feel their breath on my face. They all seemed healthy enough but nevertheless I caught something from them and paid the price. a price that was considerably higher than the discomfort of wearing a mask in a movie screening theater. 

I will never in the future go to any event or public place with large numbers of people without wearing a mask again. I don’t care what people think of me or say to me. A person in the grocery store recently banged into my shoulder and called me a Maskhole. Little did he know by definition the word is defined as someone who denies science and refuses to wear a mask. How very sad.

So to make a long story shorter this is why I have been delayed and behind the last couple of weeks. Moral to the story. Wear a mask when out and about. It’s a cheap investment in your health and couldn’t hurt. And  wash your hands constantly especially after using the gas pump! There’s all kinds of things you can catch besides Covid out there and you can give it unknowingly to your family and friends. Not cool.

Back to our regular program schedule we worked on prepping two Seemore masks yesterday for painting today. They needed bubble removal, patching, and grinding the seams off.  Both these masks should ship Monday. Sorry for the delay.

Next week the Laserblast mask sculpture begins.

This Sunday I give this beautiful airplane its first flight. It’s a 22 year old epoxy glass fuselage and balsa built Japanese kit called the “Silky Wind”. A rare find I owe to Dave at Smith Brothers Hobby Center for finding. It came from an estate sale.

I have been for the last several days. I took the weekend and Monday off. I went into LA yesterday and visited Burman Industries and picked up more rubber for mask orders.

I also visited Smith Brothers Hobby Center and picked up some supplies and a model airplane new in the box from 2001 called a Silky wind. Wonderful large park flyer that’s relaxing to fly and beautifully made with an epoxy glass fuselage and balsa built up wings and tails. These are rare these days and I thank Dave at Smith Brothers for giving me a chance to get one.

These are pictures I found on the net of a compLeted model. I should have it flying by the weekend.

I’m back at the studio today to pack more orders and clean up the two Seemores for painting tomorrow.

The week before a holiday is usually pretty quiet, so I guess this week was typical. A time to  catch up and think about new projects and great things that lie ahead. I made masks and filled orders for rocket kits and spock ears. 

Mary has been painting chickens . Not ready for her blog yet but here is a preview:

I had the great honor of being published in the prestigious magazine for the Academy of Model Aeronautics . 

Last Sunday  we were invited by my dear friend Todd Masters to the 100th birthday celebration of the great makeup artist Dick Smith. The movie, Altered States, was screened as a tribute to Dick’s great work. I haven’t seen the film for a long time and its message is one that needs to be heard. It was appropriate. Everyone had a great time. Thank you Todd  for the wonderful evening.

In the mail I received my order for my painting  on a coffee mug from Fine Art America ! How cool is that?

It’s a great way to greet the day with Vance Gilbert who is a wonderful human being. 
Friday I received this wonderful gift from Matt Sanders. Matt is the owner of 

https://ghostbustersautogr.wixsite.com/website And I had a visit from him to my studio recently where I signed over 100 autographs . He sent me this personalized shirt. It’s a great honor to receive such a gift for my work on the original Ghostbusters movie!

What’s coming next? I’m writing a new script for my next film, “A Conversation with My Father” which will feature Steve Altman, David Allan Graf, and Robb Wolford . This is a heartwarming story about the human spirit. I am also writing a script for 

a film about model aviation called “Forever Flight”.
I’m thinkin about sculpting a Laserblast mask of me from the movie. What do you think?

Would you like to see a sculpture of the creature arm that I wore in Ghostbusters?

I am planning to refit my refit. The Enterprise 1701 from the first movie”Star Trek the Motion Picture”. The model is in a state of decay and I want to bring it back with proper lighting and paint. a restoration, if you will.
Luo Dalmaso gifted me a EVA Pod from 2001: a space odyssey, my very favorite film of all time. “Lucy, I have some model building to do”

And that’s just for starters. I had better get busy.

Great times at the studio continue… 

Thank you all and remember to create beautiful things and fill the world with love. 

It’s powerful and it will make a difference. In these crazy times you make a difference by staying positive!

Don’t believe it, know it.

All The Best,

Steve and Mary

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Lou your masks are finished and will ship after the weekend.

Rocket kit complete and will ship after the weekend.

Newsletter will be posted later today.

  I don’t get involved in politics, religion, or rhetoric. But I am an artist and I do express myself through art. 

This film first went online in October of 2021.  The script was written in 2020. Since then much has happened that has been predicted by my script. And what is ahead for the human race is also predicted but does have to happen.

Writers and artists predicted many, many things that have come true. I think it’s time to listen when you are warned. 

This film was the result of a dream I once had. I have had many such dreams but what are dreams? No matter what you are told by well meaning authorities on the subject, no one really knows. But the warnings from dreams in the past have come true.

We need to listen to our inner selves because it is connected to everything past, present and future that exists. 

Post script:

It was recently brought to my attention that there is a similarity to The Dreamtime and The Great Dictator’s closing speech. Charles Chaplain was in Hilter attire and giving a similar speech. I never realized this before. Thank you Lara Trace Hentz. https://laratracehentz.wordpress.com/

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And masks bought before July 5th will remain at our current prices.

Yesterday was more work. I’m getting caught up of sorts. Still to go are two Seemores and a Rocket kit.

I got my supplies for a few more kits so I can start working on that today.

It took awhile to get the Orangutan haired up. He came out well.

I have the two Seemores out of the mold but they need cleanup before I can paint them next week.

This week really has me doing lots of rubber work. I poured more masks, packed, shipped, and more.

The masks are in various stages of completion. The Orangutan needs hair today. The Talosian needs its eyes painted and glazed.

Spock ears get shipped today. Another Seemore got cast in rubber yesterday and another was pulled from the mold to dry.

I got my rocket kits parts supplies in the mail yesterday afternoon so I can finish the X-15 Delta kit.

On top of all of that my latest issue of the Model Aviation Magazine came in the mail. I have been a member of the Academy of Aeronautics since 1986 and in all these years my work was never talked about or published until now. I’m very proud and appreciative to  the AMA and Jay Smith for this honor.

I plan to do more with the AMA to help the magazine, and to attract interest to the hobby with a film about model flight in the near future.

I did get another hour into my DVIII RC plane build. I made a fire wall and worked out how I would mount the motor. I got it to perfectly line up with the prop shaft in the cowling. This was one of the many hurdles of building this model behind me.

It was a great day all around.

What about a Laserblast mask of me from the movie? Is that something that interests you? A chance to own a piece of B movie history made by the guy that did the makeup and played the alien in the opening of the film.

Slowly I’m getting caught up with the orders. I tend to get behind when I get a lot of orders just being the only guy in the studio to pour, paint, lay hair, and ship. No complaints. I am glad to be kept busy like this.

Even though I’m getting older and most of my friends and colleagues have stopped doing this wonderful work (or have passed away) I find it so refreshing to still do. It’s like nothing has changed for me and I thank all of you for that. It keeps me young.

Yesterday I plugged along pouring another Seemore order. Cleaning up masks to paint today. And Spock ears.

I also poured up X-15 Delta rocket parts.

I finished the day out with a bit of basket weaving time on my WW1 DVIII RC plane. It’s a great way to wind down. 

An lastly I got my “Vance” painting mug yesterday. It’s amazing always to see your art published. It’s a good cup to use to start the morning. They didn’t do a bad job although it has a bit more contrast than the original art.

Today I’ll be shipping the two talosians and the Salt Vampire.