Working hard on completing orders. Today I pain the Werewolf, Seemore, and the skin I successfully pulled from the mold for Moon watcher yesterday. This polyfoam skin is so soft it’s hard to believe. They have come along way with foam tech since I started using it back in the late 70’s. Outstanding.
Under skull is made to wear if needed. I made the skull and how it functions base on a rare picture I found on the net that shows the inside of one of the masks used in the film.
Teeth get painted today. Hair order should be here today too so I can get going on hair work.
It got a little quiet for us for a couple of months. It’s called the summer slump I’m told but things are picking up again and there’s plenty to do.
Working on a Moon Watcher mask, a Werewolf of London, some rocket kits, and a Seemore. Add to all that the film and my Laser Blast sculpture and you have a busy boy.
Today I should have my soft polyfoam skin for Moon Watcher. You can see the latex skin in the mold. Under Skull is all cut and ready for the teeth to me install and the elastic hinge.
⛱ Looks like our Summer slump is ending. Things are picking up. I now have a bunch of customer projects to work on. Great!
We have orders for more masks and rocket kits. One of the masks is another Moon Watcher mask for a customer in Australia. He also got one of the 4-eyed alien masks called “Seemore”. Moon Watcher has a lot of steps to him. Fiberglass underskull and head cap. Teeth and ears. Hinges, latex and polyfoam skin that I will make on Monday and a lot of hair work.
The latex skin will go over this underskull once it’s all cut out and the jaw hinged. Skull cap is used to mount the under-skull so it fits well on a human head.
Cast resin ears and teeth
it takes various molds to make this mask We got another order for the “Werewolf of London”. He remains popular.
This one is fresh out of the mold. It will dry out over the weekend and I will finish it on Monday with paint and hair work. Meanwhile, in the background, when I have time, I have been working on my Saturn 1B. It was the workhorse and backbone of the Apollo program. The Saturn 1B helped us get to the moon 52 years ago. Fitting, because this week has been a celebration for us with the 52nd anniversary of Apollo 11 and Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin team made its first historic flight to space. For a great history lesson and understanding of how we got to where we are today read this “Letters from an American” for July 23rd by Heather Cox Richardson: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-23-2021
Mary’s finished painting this week is an alcohol ink, Crab on the Rocks
Every morning and night when I come home from the studio I work on our film. I will all this weekend and for weeks to come until it’s finished. It is turning out well. Thinking ahead for new projects I’m considering doing a series of Christopher Lee masks based off the life mask I made of him back in 1977. It was a wonderful experience to work with this great actor. First mask I’m considering is his famous portrayal of Dracula. Because it’s taken from a clay press of his actual face I feel it gives it more value.
I plan to build, at long last, my AMT Enterprise D. Here’s a picture of one I built for a customer. So yes, as Mary says, “It’s time to melt some plastic together again”.
I made a life mask of Chris Lee in 1977. I plan to clay press it and make a series of Chris Lee masks. I’m starting with this first one to see how well they sell.
So far the masks that sell the most on my site are the classic Henry Hull “Werewolf of London”.
Doing a clay press means it will be his actual face from my life mask made all those years ago. I will sculpt the eyes and mouth open and give him the expression, blood shot eyes and teeth. I’m looking forward to this one and maybe the Mummy and Frankenstein monsters he also played.
Just as I finished this order I got another order for the Werewolf, a Seemore, and a Moon Watcher mask. I am so grateful and SNG Studio just lives on thanks to all of you.
Here’s the latest version of Henry Hull. I make these up to request in style and look.
I received from Mike Sitkin of the Famous Kit Kraft in Studio City one of these Gasaprin CO2 motors. Long out of production and holding the Guinness Book of World records for the smallest model motor I managed to get one. Now to build a very small free flight plane around it. I had no idea they were so small. This thing is amazing! If your interested in getting one of these motors he has 4 more. When they’re gone they’re gone.
And one more thing about the importance of human space flight. I long ago realized that there are triggers in to our DNA that affect change in how we think, this begins a new evolution to our species that can’t be done until our DNA detects that we have entered space.
When humans reach space, feel freefall, and see the Earth from the perspective of space, the switch turns on and they are never the same again. We will evolve out of wars, greed, and useless pursuits of self destruction.
Just watch what happens to the people take those commercial space flights and how they change. Commercial space is important for that reason alone.
Filling yet and other order! Thank you for ordering! this gets painted today and a new batch of crape hair in on the way. I ran out you guys have ordered so many of these.
My restored all stock vintage Nissan 300 zx is being driven again. I have had some minor mechanical repairs done to this car by my dear friend and mechanic extraordinaire Manny Rodriquez at Radical Autosport. This car runs like it’s still new. I remember in 1985 many of my friends were buying these with all the money they made in makeup effects. It’s a trip down memory lane to drive this today. They have vanished from the roads they once populated. Some were over modified and have lost their value.
The license plate frame says it all. Build a Bridge to the Stars. Made for me by my late wife Gillian. When they did the restoration I had them keep that frame to reinstall.
This weekend the slot car races begin once more in a year and a half with the Farrout Slot Car Group. This is the car I take there to be with a bunch of gearheads for 2 hours of racing on amazing big tracks monthly.
The Art of Steve Neill 