RCPRO Club 40 Pylon Racing

We all need prayers ..

My friend John McGowan is in special need right now .. his wife Gail Neeley McGowan is not doing and with her elderly mother needing care as well, he needs all the help he can get .. these are his adorable Boyz .. please add him to your prayer list

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John was very active in RCPRO Club 40 Pylon Racing in the 2009-2012 timeframe in Alabama and has been a great friend to me .. he talked me out of going AMA on May 13th 2021 after I had arrived at the SNF to terrible conditions .. not the Academy of Model Aeronautics .. Again Medical Advice .. I wouldn't be alive if I had left the SNF that night

I've made a little progress on 3D modeling in Blender for my RealFlight project of creating a Sky Raider Mach II / Club 40 Racer visual model .. I got the fuselage shape reasonably close with a low polygon count, but I was having trouble with the textures not showing properly .. a new friend Jun Taue saw my box plane posting and he's helped get the texture visuals working .. I was getting frustrated, but now I can move on to more complex modeling and finish this plane plus hopefully the Q40's, Q500's, and EF1's I want to do .. the second image is what it was looking like before his help

Since I'm back in the shop and feeling like I'm starting to get back in a groove, I decided to shoot a little video this morning (5/30/2023) showing the state of my model airplane workshops .. I've still got a ways to go, probably another week or two to get things fully put away, but my workflow is getting back in order and I'm getting things done as well as getting my organization back in gear.

A tour of my model airplane workshops that I'm cleaning up as I get some work done again 5/30/2023

When something went wrong .. in 2017