Tag: rc-airplanes

An update from the studio

9-3-2025

Work continues diligently on all my various projects. I have to date edited and produced several shows for the “Breaking the Silence” channel that continues to do well.

The most recent that is about to air this Friday at 4pm PST. DR. Irena Scott’s story about two encounters she had with her sister. Irena has worked closely with Philip Mantel in there in-depth and long running investigator of one of the most highly documented cases of human contact with non-human beings. The famous Pascagoula case of the 70’s.

This case has more witnesses and corroborating testimony than any case in history. Despite the debunkers, skeptics and materialist scientists this case has not been explained away in any rational way. And we have Philip Mantle and Dr. Irena Scott to thank for this. Her re-accounting of her memories is compelling, straight forward and honest.

Despite science best efforts to explain away this subject that in light of the mountains of accumulating evidence to contrary to their claim of “no evidence supports non-human life found on Earth” it is unimaginable to me that anyone can ignore the men and woman of all walks of life that are of rational sound minds that have witnessed non-human technology and beings not of this Earth. So Mary and I along with many other brave human beings around the Earth will continue to document their stories for history and to shed light in the subject the the public. Our latest show with Dustin Eskelsen.

On to other projects of modeling I am making a lot of progress on the Seaview build. I’m about to install the interior that still has a few more lights to go. The hull is becoming seamless and the bottom of the boat is seaming up well too.

The scratch build Enforcer build is finished. Wow that was fast but that’s the beauty of building with makers foam board.

Although they never come out as well as a balsa built plane this construction technique for building a functional well flying aircraft works quite well in a very short period of time.

This will fly Saturday weather permitting. She has retractable landing gear, ailerons, elevator and a nice 70mm EDF fan unit that produces 3 pounds of thrust and the plane weights just a tad over 3 pounds. It should fly well.

The Biplane will also fly Saturday.

I’m taking a break from building airplanes for awhile. I have built several this year and it’s time to switch gears for awhile. Literally. How about a nice 1/24 scale slot car of the famous Mercedes Benz Tipo W163?

I have on order a kit that should be here next week. I was lucky to get this kit while they still last in the US because these are imported from Spain and most if not all of European countries are not shipping to the US. Sad but true. Soon that will change.

This will be a nice build and fun to run on my track to test. But it will soon after be taken to Electric Dreams to run on their 8 lane wooden track. It’s huge with lots of room to run fast.

The 1/24 scale cars run on my 1/32 track quite well I have found ever since Dave Kennedy sent me a Policar track to replace the Scalextric track I lost in the flood. It’s wider and works quite well for 1/24th scale.

These are some of the 1/24th scale cars. The one in the middle is a car I owned when I was 14 years old. A Lotus 40 I was given and have been restoring with a new body made from the original molds of the 60s. It runs very well on my track.

My more recent 1/24th scale build from scratch of a McClaren. The body was from a plastic static kit and the frame and suspension was scratch built in brass and off the shelf parts.

That’s the latest. I am planning another short film and many more interviews to come on the channel. Until then, enjoy and have fun. That is of most importance.

CGI visual effects, Model radio controlled airplanes, and plastic model building 8-17-25

The best of all three worlds

Continuing my primary work which is of course the “Breaking the Silence” channel shows. These shows require shooting, editing, and visual effects. Currently I’m working on three shows and the DR. Irena Scott Encounters” is heavy on the effects.

Then there’s my commission build for my dear friend Jeff of the famous Seaview from “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” I have always loved this submarine it’s one of my favorites. I have had several radio controlled versions of this beautiful design over the years and have built many of them for customers. This one is a static model which for me offers a nice break from the extremely complex nature of a radio controlled submarine building. The difficult of all radio controlled models to build in my humble opinion.

I am making much progress on the model the hardest part being to blend all the seams of the ill fitting parts.

Next up I have been slowly building the Inspirer Biplane and I’m happy to say I finished it. It will fly in a couple of weeks time after I go over every detail from control throws to computer radio programing and confirming the center of gravity. These Pat Tritle design kits have always flown well for me.

Now that I have finished the Biplane I have cleaned up and moved on to a plane I lost years ago to radio interference(something that we don’t experience often if at all with the advent of 2.4 gigahertz) called the Enforcer. They still make the kit but I have this 70mm EDF electric jet engine just laying around doing nothing. I’m putting it to good use because I found the plans for the Enforcer and I resized them to accommodate the 70mm EDF unit. EDF stands for, Electric Ducted Fan. But this time I’m working with Flite Test makers foam board. I need a break from balsa dust and mess and building in foam is fast and fun. The original plane was a gas powered pusher prop and it made a hell of a racket but with this electric jet power it’s very quiet with lots of power.

Original balsa pusher power Enforcer. These fly exceptionally well.

You can see the EDF unit sitting on the back of the wing cut out. That little thing make over 3 pounds of thrust at nearly 800 watts of power.

So far I have all the parts cut out and I have started the assembly of the fuselage. The wing in the end will have a full flying airfoil shape with ailerons and elevator. This all happened in a few hours. Today I move on to the wing. This is so exciting and a nice break from the world that can’t be beat!

See you all next week.