Merry Christmas!

If you’re like me and celebrate Christmas, then let yours be a merry one indeed! Hopefully all of your RC wishes will come true. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

First Amiga Toaster/Flyer Video!

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but I finally captured and edited my first video on my vintage Amiga A4000T Video Toaster/Flyer system. (more…)

Amiga Toaster/Flyer System Fully Operational

After rearranging some furniture and acquiring a work table, I was able to fully configure my Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer system in an Amiga A4000T computer. This is a pic of the entire system. (more…)

The Camroc Flies, But No Photos!

It was a beautiful fall day here this past Friday – sunny and a tad chilly at 50’F – great for flying my refurbished vintage Camroc and newly-built Camroc Carrier clone model rocket. Armed with a half-dozen film disks and Estes C6-5 engines, I was looking forward to a visit into model rocketry’s past. (more…)

The Hiawatha Gets DCC Sound

Fox Valley Models Hiawatha is a DCC ready model that looks great coming down the tracks, but it’s even better when you can HEAR it coming, too! Litchfield Station LLC now offers a pre-programmed SoundTraxx Tsunami decoder specifically for the Hiawatha. See it get installed and tested in the Hiawatha in my original Hiawatha post.

Camroc To Fly Again?

I’m guessing it’s been close to 40 years or more since this vintage Estes Camroc model rocket camera has snapped a photo from on high. Is it up to the challenge 40+ years later? Time to bring it out of retirement and find out! See the progress of this experiment added to my original Camroc posting here.