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Blaster Beam at the Arclight
3
photos
Moebius 2001 EVA Pod
50
photos,
6
videos
R2 1/350 K't'inga
46
photos,
1
video
Tenacontrols lighting kit installed...
Moebius/Aurora 2001 Moon us
17
photos
1/144 Death Star Trench
16
photos
Diorama built from 4 Bandai Death Star Attack set kits.
1/350 Star Wars Medical Frigate
44
photos
Cosmos Models 36" resin kit build
Star Trek Set Tour
38
photos
Irondale Garage
8
photos
R2 22" Space: 1999 Eagle
48
photos
Thunderbird, Romulan BOP Etc
20
photos
Moebius LIS Derelict
11
photos
Geek Action Figure Shoot
27
photos
Geek Starship Night Shoot
30
photos
San Francisco May 2012
87
photos
Green Godzilla
5
photos
Walking with Dinosaurs With Logan 2010
9
photos,
17
videos
Star Trek TAS Freighter
52
photos
Star Trek Diorama
48
photos,
2
videos
Zefram Cochrane house and Companion from "Metamorphosis"--house kit by Chris Larson models.
Tyderium shuttle
3
photos
I switched out the nose on this one with an upgrade kit from shape ways (at $80 it cost as much as the kit did on eBay). I also added a bunch of detail to the leading and trailing edges of all three...
Phaser Rifle
27
photos
This was a quick and dirty build--I found the 3D files online and had someone print them out of plant-based material which is very close to styrene but very striated. Heavy auto primer and auto...
Duel Truck build
100
photos
Always wanted one of these--combined an AMT Peterbilt 325 truck (actually two of them) with a Testors "Big Rig" tanker trailer and a nose conversion kit to turn the Peterbilt into the older...
Valley Con 2017
72
photos
Zvezda 1/2700 Star Destroyer
4
photos
Finally, a large, detailed, injection-molded, licensed Star Destroyer model.
Moebius 1/32 Proteus
48
photos
Very proud to have served as a minor consultant on this dream kit.
Mammoth 2016
99
photos,
10
videos
Man from Atlantis Cetacean sub
4
photos
This is kind of a primitive model kit from Chris Larson Productions but where else are you going to find this subject?
Star Trek III Star Tug
70
photos
This beautiful Timeslip kit is 1/32 scale, same as the old AMT Galileo, and apparently actually bigger than the original miniature made by Bill George, which incorporated F-16 and F-14 jet fighter...
1/128 Seaview modified
124
photos,
5
videos
Modifying the Flying Sub hatch area of the big Moebius Seaview to be more accurate and lengthening the hull. I bought a lighting kit from Tenacontrols which has some neat features but also some...
Space: 1999 Laser Tank
12
photos
1/48 British kit, in scale with (and pictured with) the big MPC Eagle kit.
Logan in Peter Rabbit
35
photos
2001 Aries 1B screen-used miniature
40
photos
Viewing an original model from 2001 before it went up for auction in April 2015.
Joshua Tree 2015
125
photos
Cosmocaixa Silent Running - Valley Forge museum...
11
photos
The Valley Forge model from Silent Running (kitted by Tony Lamb) I built will be on display at the Barcelona Cosmocaixa Science museum's "Experiment Year 2100" display for the next two...
Valleycon 2015
62
photos
Gorgo!
17
photos
Apes Book Signing
10
photos
Irondale Skies
22
photos
Veronica Bond 2014-15
16
photos
Corriganville Park Simi Valley
106
photos,
1
video
Fake Snow Day!
12
photos
Most of 2014
40
photos,
3
videos
Ticonderoga 2014
149
photos
Moebius Cylon Raider
13
photos
Black Hole Cygnus 1/700
118
photos,
2
videos
This is a 3D-printed model courtesy of "primitive dave" available on shape ways.com.I'm not a big fan of the movie The Black Hole and I'm not even much of a fan of the Cygnus, but it is an...
CBTS Cargo Sub
4
photos
Since no one will ever make a kit of the Vulcan enemy sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, that was modified to be the "Cargo Sub" in the pilot City Beneath the Sea, here's my attempt....
Geek Action Figure Shoot
27
photos
Putting all my action figures into an immense white void for a photo feature in Geek magazine.
TMP Airtram at Bulk's
24
photos
Halloween/Fall 2013
206
photos,
9
videos
Pumpkin patch visits, birthdays and trick or treat in Woodland Hills...
Landrum Twins Party
25
photos
This trip to Under the Sea reunited Logan with his pal Tanay--also got to see his new baby brother along with the growing Landrum twins...
Woodland Hills 2013
143
photos,
2
videos
Stuff that goes on after we moved to Woodland Hills...
Star Trek Ray Generator
4
photos,
1
video
Here's something I thought I'd never have--Scotty's "ray generator" engineering prop seen in a couple episodes of Star Trek. Someone on the Replica Prop Forum made a nice kit of this with...
Starship Troopers ships
18
photos
Two 1/700 spaceship kits from the Paul Verhoeven masterpiece. The Rodger Young is a fantastic kit that can be built as one of three different ships including the Rodger Young troop carrier, a fighter...
Oblivion bubble ship
11
photos
Okay, it's not that exciting, but I did get a few pics of the bubble ship and drone props from the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion during an otherwise completely unmemorable press junket.
Veronica Elaine Bond
240
photos,
19
videos
Veronica Elaine Bond enters the world, June 27th, 2013.
Baza Garage
12
photos
It begins anew...
LACMA Kubrick Exhibit
78
photos
Just made it into the LACMA Kubrick exhibit under the wire. I had no idea a lot of this stuff still existed, especially the 2001 Starchild. There were actually quite a few young people in there...
The Garage 2013
60
photos
These are the last photos of the garage in Burbank before I started packing. Let's see if I can recreate anything on this level in Woodland Hills.
Yosemite 2013
353
photos,
2
videos
For Brooke's 40th birthday we went on a trip to Yosemite National Park--one of the most staggering natural environments I've ever witnessed. Scary drive in and out but it was worth it--hope I can...
Spring 2013 Activities
19
photos
Logan hangs out at the Vebbers for St. Patrick's Day and has brunch with Trisha's baby among other things.
Moebius Munsters House/
14
photos
This is a great little kit of the famous Munsters House at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. I got the base kit and photoetch set which includes a fantastic little working wrought iron gate and other details,...
1/35 Gunhed
5
photos
This is an amazing kit with hundreds of parts and numerous moveable joints, that reconfigures from a low-slung tank version to more of a four-legged fighting robot. It's from an obscure Japanese...
Space Shuttle
75
photos
Finally visited Endeavor at the California Science Center. Pretty huge!
Cylon Tanker
15
photos
Here's one that slipped by me but I always wanted a kit of this obscure subject. Larson Designs put it out a couple of years ago but fortunately they still make them. Comes with doors, bulkheads and...
1/144 Rebel Transport
79
photos
This is one of the coolest kits I've seen. It's about two feet long, in scale with the Japanese Star Wars F-Toys, and sports over 250 parts. Apart from two clusters at the front, all of the numerous...
Canyon Hike
89
photos,
1
video
We spent a nice Saturday morning with the Greens hiking up this rugged and awfully crowded canyon to a secluded waterfall, if by "secluded" you can mean packed to the rafters with other...
Movie Seaview
46
photos
This sat around half finished for a year or so while I tried to figure out how to light it. I tried two lighting kits--nothing wrong with them, but they didn't illuminate the bow windows brightly...
Moebius Pegasus test shot
12
photos
1/32 ST-TMP Work Bee
19
photos
This is from Modular Models, which produces a cool line of add-ons and accessories for existing models as well as stand-alone items like this. I can't call this a "quick and dirty build"...
Christmas 2012
238
photos,
2
videos
Real snow this year--although we had to wait for the day after Christmas.
LLL TOS Trek Event
18
photos
December 3, 2012, La La Land released ALL music recorded--17.3 hours--for the original Star Trek, my holy grail and the pinnacle of my so-called career. Had a great release event at the Egyptian...
Barbarella Alpha 7
2
photos
Tony Lamb made this neat little 1/48 scale kit, which I built and painted in about 25 minutes. Truly one of the goofiest spacecraft designs ever, it fits right in with the movie's psychedelic...
Mountains of MASH
176
photos
Thanksgiving trip to Malibu Creek National Park, gorgeously scenic, and if you're up for a nice two and a half hour hike, you can visit the clearing where they filmed the exterior scenes (including...
Birthday Season
17
photos,
2
videos
Logan turns 5 etc.
Vasquez Rocks 2012
147
photos
The Paradise Syndrome
32
photos
Somehow Brooke, not me, accidentally guided us to a classic Star Trek filming location--Franklin Canyon, where they filmed "The Paradise Syndrome" (Kirk becomes a Native American). I was...
Halloween 2012
104
photos,
3
videos
Logan is a swamp creature, attends various Halloween parties and visits a pumpkin patch in this thrill-packed episode!
Forget it, it's Chinatown
22
photos
Saturday night visit to Chinatown during the (I presume monthly) Moonfest--Chinese food was consumed, firecrackers set off, guitars bought.
1/72 Disney Nautilus
61
photos
Okay, it's actually 1/69 scale, but same difference. This is a stupendous reproduction of the Disney sub, cast in black resin, with additional resin and white metal parts. I got a separate, kind of...
1/72 Skipjack sub
45
photos
This is a HUGE, 40 inch long injection molded kit, the biggest nuclear sub kit of its kind yet done--hopefully the start of a new line of big sub kits from Moebius. Thank god I get these things for...
1/72 Discovery
6
photos
Okay, maybe it's not really 1/72 but close enough for me! This is a huge, 4 1/2 foot monstrosity built around a 1/4 steel rod.
Logan Fall 2012
84
photos,
30
videos
Logan starts transitional kindergarten, eats popsicles, sleeps, visits a police fair and other fun stuff.
Space Shuttle Landing Day
45
photos
Thanks to Gene Kozicki I not only got an awesome view of the space shuttle Endeavor landing at LAX, but I also got a nice tour of visual effects company Rhythm & Hues.
Garage
7
photos
2012 Camping Adventure
117
photos,
5
videos
The Bond-Vimtrups, the Greens, and the Kumars survived two days of camping near the coast a bit south of Santa Barbara, demonstrated their tent setting-up skills and got incredibly filthy. Fun!
Gunstar
27
photos
This is a great 1/72 kit of the CG animation Gunstar from The Last Starfighter. Reproduces the cockpit down the the swiveling gunner chair and heads up display.
Village 2012 Art Show
21
photos,
2
videos
Logan sat still long enough to create THREE works for this always impressive art show--and he also manages to demonstrate his pugilistic skills with his buddy Tanay.
San Francisco 2012
97
photos
Went for a little reunion with Linda Frost and Jim Nawrocki. These were the results.
The Great Eclipse of 2012
19
photos,
1
video
Okay, my photographic chronicle of this great event probably isn't the best, but it was pretty eerie to see these effects for the second (and possibly the last) time in my lifetime.
Graf Zeppelin
2
photos
Started this about two years go, finished painting it, then neglected to add the decals and engines, misplaced them for two years, and finally finished it. I love that story...
Vermithrax
17
photos
Here's something I always wanted--the incredible Phil Tippet dragon from 1981's Dragonslayer. This is a big vinyl model from Pegasus, and while I would have preferred a flying pose, this is a...
Whaling!
66
photos,
3
videos
Join Logan, Grandpa and Grandma Bond, Brooke and Jeff as they watch whales and dolphins frolic off the coast of Catalina, and one member of our crew succumbs to the malady of the deep.
Revell Trek kits
23
photos
These versions of the Enterprise and Klingon battlecruiser were made by Revell Germany in 1/600 scale. They are not accurate but they are very nicely engineered and interesting, and slightly larger...
Easter 2012
61
photos,
7
videos
An afternoon at the Salamoff's, a new scooter and a visit from Grammy Pat.
1/350 stuff
89
photos
...everything from the giant Master Replicas TOS Enterprise, Polar Lights Refit and Sovereign Klingon K'Tinga to little things like a mini Space Ghost Phantom Cruiser and l'il F-Toys Millennium...
Excelsior and C
21
photos
I never built the original ERTL Enterprise C because the stand was so horrible--ditto the Excelsior, although I did built that one. I got some great aftermarket decals for both, but what screwed me...
Metropolis II
17
photos,
8
videos
This is a work by artist Chris Burden, on display at the LACMA, that includes 100,000 matchbox-scale cars, often running at 240 scale miles per hour around a ridiculously complicated track layout,...
LACMA & THE ZOO
88
photos,
13
videos
In one incredible weekend, Logan visited the Los Angeles Zoo with his friend Tanay and witnessed the amazing METROPOLIS II city sculpture at LACMA, and dined at some upscale eatery on Highland. He...
Phantom Cruiser
4
photos
Some garage kit manufacturer came up with the brilliant idea of giving out this little 3-inch-long one-piece kit (plus stand) of the Phantom Cruiser from the old Hanna Barbera cartoon Space...
Christmas '11
273
photos,
31
videos
Logan got his first (huge) live Christmas tree this year, and an early visit from Santa Claus.
Moebius Vipers
5
photos
This is the sleeker Mk. VII Viper; Mk. III to follow.
Topanga Cnyn Inn & Getty Villa
76
photos,
3
videos
Brooke and I spent an anniversary weekend in Topanga and Santa Monica, relaxing in front of a fire in our suite at the Topanga Canyon Inn, visiting ancient antiquities at the Getty Villa museum,...
"Moon" Rover
26
photos
1/35 scale vehicle from the Duncan Jones movie from 2009. This is one of the few movies of recent years to use extensive "table top" high speed miniature work and it's beautiful to watch....
Big Frankie
4
photos
This giant "super deformed" kit was an experiment for Aurora Plastics during the sixties monster craze. It was designed to be both a toy and a model; it flopped and consequently became a...
Mausoleum of the Dead!
11
photos
Courtesy of the amazing Taylor White, Paul Salamoff and I attended October Shadows IV, an amazing exhibition of spooky Halloween artwork. This was held at the equally amazing Mountain View Mausoleum...
Fall '11 Logan Activities
290
photos,
47
videos
Christian and Zachy's birthday, Come Play WIth Me Night at preschool, trying out his Halloween costume, a trip to Pretend City, a football game, Logan's birthday, and Washing the Car--it's all here,...
Moebius Wonder Woman
13
photos
This is a reissue of the old Aurora comic book model--one of the coolest, not because of the subject necessarily, but the outrageous comic book action that pits Wonder Woman and her magic lasso...
The Weddin' of Trisha
137
photos,
1
video
Ah, another weekend, another wedding of fancy people in a jaw-droppingly beautiful setting. Our friend Trisha Wheeler and hubby Adam Seltzner decided to wed in Napa Valley at Adam's uncle's vineyard....
Moebius Seaview
35
photos
This was my dream kit, but for some reason I let it sit around for three years hoping someone would come up with a hull plug to lengthen it a couple of inches. Finally sealed it up, used a lighting...
Valley Forge
153
photos
The ultimate model? This kit from Doug Trumbull's 1971 movie Silent Running is something like 55 inches long, reinforced by numerous brass rods, with central girders made by 3D printer...
2001 Discovery
14
photos
Seeing 2001 in 70mm again inspired me to rip apart my old Lunar Models Discovery, rebuild and repaint it. Checking it out, it's horribly inaccurate, but still builds up relatively impressively.
Walk Around the Block
35
photos,
1
video
Logan and Brooke circumnavigate the block on a rare day when there are actually interesting clouds over Burbank.
Crow's Nest Proteus
53
photos
The ultimate model of Fantastic Voyage's minisub Proteus, several years in the making, with some parts no bigger than a grape seed.
March of Dimes Walk
23
photos,
4
videos
Brooke, Logan and Jeff participated in a grueling 3-mile walk for the March of Dimes April 30th. Actually it wasn't that grueling.
Hearst Castle & Cambria
149
photos,
3
videos
Wherein we journey to the delightful tourist trap town of Cambria, nestled in the New England-like hills along the California coastline 15 minutes south of Hearst Castle. We recommend the Cambria...
Disneyland '11/Huhns
35
photos
Over the weary protests of Rob Huhn the Bond and Huhn families enjoyed a rousing day at the Happiest Place on Earth.
Sovereign Replicas 1/350 Klingon Cruiser
52
photos
I don't know if there's such a thing as a "quick and dirty build" of this model--it's made of fiberglas and resin, with brass tubes in the engine and neck pylons so you can wire it with...
Vasquez Rocks
126
photos,
1
video
The awesome location way north of Los Angeles where the Gorn scenes from Star Trek's "Arena" (as well as the Capella IV scenes from "Friday's Child," the planet scenes from...
Randy Cooper Galileo
84
photos
This is a 1/24 resin kit with a great interior and other details that rectify all the horrible mistakes made by AMT when they modeled the shuttle in the sixties. I used Christmas light LEDs for the...
Moebius Spindrift and Space Clipper
16
photos
New tools--1/128 Spindrift (goes with Seaview and mini-Flying Sub) and 2001 Space Clipper, done with minimal engraved paneling detail to reproduce the scale detail of the original miniature.
Joyce Yip Green Nature Hike
29
photos
On February 5, 2011, Logan and I joined other brave souls in exploring Eaton Park near Pasadena. These photos are all that remain of the expedition.
U.S.S. Titan
4
photos
This was designed by a fan to be the ship Will Riker commands after he leaves the Enterprise-D. Nice Starcraft kit--I screwed up some of these decals big time--you'll easily spot the errors, U.S.S....
Avatar Valkyrie Shuttle
13
photos
Nice 1/288 kit from Fantastic Plastic. I tried to do a subtle paneling job on the top--too subtle, you can't really make it out. Did some metallic paneling on the engines and some very minute streaks...
C57-D Diorama
9
photos
The huge C57-D saucer kit I've had for a few years--someone recently put out a great prefinished vacuform dome that improves the profile of the ship, and someone else released an even greater diorama...
2001 Bomb Satellites
30
photos
AJA Models put out all of the orbiting satellite "bombs" seen just after the famous ape bone-throwing shot in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A few casting issues aside there are incredibly cool...
Nth Birthday Party
36
photos,
1
video
This was a big one. So big I can't even mention it for fear of ruining my career. But it was a great one. Too bad only about a third of the people there got photographed. But enjoy them at least.
Aurora Tar Pit
14
photos
This was one of the first Prehistoric Scenes kits I got at around age 10, and this probably singlehandedly created my obsessive collector mentality. Each kit came with a display base that was like a...
WOTW Martian
3
photos
This is a soft vinyl kit with clear "technicolor" eyepieces for the creature and the hooded Martian "camera" shown next to it. Comes with two books--"War of the Worlds"...
1/350 Blockade Runner etc.
19
photos,
1
video
Very nice, complicated resin kit in scale with the Master Replicas TOS Enterprise, the Round 2 Refit and NX-01, Moebius small Seaview and Klingon BOP. The copper-colored "Deep Space...
Moebius Jupiter 2
39
photos,
3
videos
This is a huge kit with an amazing recreation of the Lost in Space spaceship's main deck. To make this look anything like it does on the show you need a lot of lights, and since I'm lazy and cheap I...
Mars Curiosity Rover
18
photos
Thanks to my mole on the inside, Whitney Clavin, I got to see the massive new Mars rover being assembled at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena. The way this thing will land on Mars is truly...
Dune Transport
6
photos
Beautifully done garage kit of the Atriedes transport from Dune. I managed to get a bunch of close-ups of the actual miniature and I can assure you that the paint job on the movie prop is every bit...
The Nostromo
63
photos
This is the original, giant miniature of the famed spaceship from Ridley Scott's Alien, restored by the Prop Store of London.
Mon Calamari mon!
15
photos
These two ships are the Anigrand 1/2255 scale "Liberty" MC-80 Mon Calamari ship. The tan and orange ship is the model built straight and painted, the gray one I modified to resemble the...
Ye Renaissance Faire!
51
photos
Nobleman Richard Kraft did invite myself, servant wench Brooke and young knave Logan to the Renaissance Fair on April 25, 2010. It is my considered conclusion that the Renaissance was hot and itchy....
Disneyland!
164
photos,
5
videos
Logan was so full of happiness after 11 hours at the Happiest Place on Earth that he threw up. But he waited until he was unconscious on the ride home to do it, because he knew better than to...
Long Beach Aquarium
109
photos,
27
videos
Logan and Grandpa and Grandma Bond get with the fishes. Plus: Logan's Children's Fair.
Logan's Wizard of Oz Phase
1
photo,
8
videos
We recently showed Logan The Wizard of Oz for the second time. That was just over a week ago. He has since demanded to watch it at least once, sometimes twice and on one occasion three times PER DAY....
Star Destroyers etc
100
photos
This is the giant 28" Anigrand Star Destroyer, the Mon Calamari "MC-80" ship, the Revell Germany Republic Cruiser, a "Clones" Star Destroyer (from 2 Fat Guys) and teeny...
Ohio Christmas 09
200
photos
Sunset after Rain
18
photos
We had a heavy rain February 9th and then the sun came out, oddly, just as it was setting, creating an unearthly look to the neighborhood. I'm sure a real photographer could have really made...
Defiance Reunion Trip
171
photos,
17
videos
Featuring good times with the Bond family, my 30th high school reunion, a stop at the Huhns and another reunion of Brooke and her elementary/junior high school gal pals.
God Damn Cloudscapes
70
photos
Yes I know they bore you, but I just love snapping photos through the windows when I'm 30,000 feet in the air. If you enlarge these there are some pretty good cloudscapes and arial views in here.
Maui Vacation
484
photos,
11
videos
Hey, do you like sunsets? Well tough luck, chump--I photographed so much sunset footage in beautiful Maui that even I'M sick of them now. We dedicate this folder to our friend and benefactor Richard...
Logan Surgery
9
photos
Logan gets tubes put in his ears, charms the socks off the entire staff of St. Joseph's hospital, and is assigned his own computer work station so he'll stop bothering everyone.
Aries 1-B
37
photos
Great 1/80 scale kit from Captain Cardboard, the master of 2001 garage kits. Pretty chunky at about six inches across. Since there was no interior I cut a circular floor, braced it with sheet plastic...
2009 MTV Movie Awards
98
photos
Our pals Jon and Al Kaplan wrote jokes and did musical arrangements for the MTV Movie Awards this year and invited us and Tim and Shana Curran to attend. The following nosebleed views of a distant...
Travel Town
74
photos
In the no man's land between Burbank and Griffith Park lies Travel Town, where old trains go to die--but before that children are allowed to play on them, to teach them a lesson. The trains, we mean.
Noah's Ark Exhibit
45
photos
We visited the Skirball Center museum, which had an exhibit of comic book art related to Hitler and WWII, but more importantly a stupendous pop art interpretation of Noah's Ark with animals made out...
Ocean & Blimes
98
photos
A visit from the Blimes family--Brooke's college roommate Michelle, husband Randy, daughters Sierra, Kali and Arwyn--prompted Logan's first trip to see the ocean. It was cold and windy.
Iron Men
33
photos
Amok Toys' Gort and Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still, their Rondo Hatton, SIdeshow Toys Darth Vader and Luke and Han in Stormtrooper disguise, and Hot Toyz Iron Man Mk. II and III. What do...
Easter Egg Hunt!
42
photos,
5
videos
Logan journeys to Descanso Gardens to hunt brightly colored eggs, ride a train and face an encounter with a terrifying, anthropomorphic rabbit.
Falke
20
photos
This is part of a Japanese set of models that I think were originally, loosely inspired by Heinlein's Starship Troopers (mainly in that they involve a number of hulking armored 'power suits') but...
Irwin Allen Moebius Models
56
photos
This is Moebius Models' 1/32 Flying Sub from the 1965 season of the TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I did the "liner notes" for the instruction manual. I've dreamed of this kit...
Helmetless Logan etc
75
photos,
4
videos
Logan plays with newly acquired Christmas toys and enjoys a day in the park, all while showing off his new, unprotected noggin.
Ohio Christmas 08
214
photos,
2
videos
or Logan Discovers the Joy of Abundant Christmas Presents...
Logan's Last Helmet Photos
7
photos
On MLK Day 2009, Logan made his final visit to Cranial Technologies, where he fussed through his final measurements and photographs and was rewarded with a sculpture of his formerly misshapen head on...
California Christmas
34
photos
Logan's 1st Thanksgiving Meal
31
photos
Logan managed to spend 30 minutes strapped to a chair sampling mashed potatoes, stuffing and corn bread without complaint...
Logan's 1st Birthday
18
photos
Logan opened presents from Grammy, Aunt Jenny, Aunt Colleen and Mom and Dad, got a phone call from Grandpa Paul and destroyed a cupcake.
Braeden's Tree Planting
23
photos
The Village Toddler Daycare Center planted a tree in memory of Braeden on November 4, 2008. It was a beautiful ceremony organized by Kathy Ramirez who runs the daycare center.
Swimming! Etc.
62
photos,
2
videos
Oct 2008
66
photos
Trip to Defiance and friends visiting California in memory of Braeden.
Logan's Halloween
37
photos
Braeden in Hospital
46
photos
Braeden went into Cedar-Sinai hospital August 26 and a few days later an MRI showed a tumor in his skull wrapped around his brainstem. Although his initial round of chemo went very well, he...
Bond Babies August 08
31
photos
Some choice shirtless dad photos in here, ladies.
Jeff Bond, Hollywood Asshole
20
photos
Here are a few of the more notable (to me) people I've met (or places I've been) and had the forethought to have myself photographed with since I moved to L.A.
Braeden/Logan Video Party
6
videos
Watch the boys wiggle and gurgle throughout the ages!
The Birth of Braeden and Logan
3
videos
Three short films show the twins' reaction to their new universe just as they're introduced to it. (hint: they are not pleased by what they find)
Bond Babies Memorial Day Special
49
photos
Buck Rogers Thunderfighter
17
photos
This is another quite large kit recently gifted to me by a mysterious benefactor. It's my first "studio scale" kit and is around two feet in length, all parts cast in solid resin including...
Super Stardestroyer
17
photos
A friend of mine just gave me this, assembled and painted because he didn't like the paint job. It's huge--38 inches long I believe so don't ask me what the scale is but it looks like a regular Star...
Bond Babies Seven
124
photos
Bond Babies Six-Pickup Sticks
32
photos
Moebius Seaview
15
photos
I did the "liner notes" for this amazing kit, my dream model. 39 inches long--huge! Don't be fooled by the box--the nose of this baby is almost the size of a football.
Bond Babies V
45
photos
Bond Babies IV: The Quickening
121
photos
Pegasus/Galactica
29
photos
This is the Pegasus from Fantastic Plastic, roughly (for my purposes anyway) in scale with the old Galactica and Timeslip rag tag fleet models. Nicely rendered by Alfred Wong but seeing this in the...
Bond Babies Part 3
60
photos
Bond Babies Part Two
70
photos
More baby photos...because we're arrogant enough to believe we produced the cutest babies in human history...
Bond Babies
124
photos
Braeden Atticus Bond and Logan Emerson Bond, born November 13, 2007
Nostromo & Derelict
27
photos
I built and painted this PVC and styrene kit as a kind of relaxing recovery therapy from doing the Enterprise refit. I've wanted this kit since it was released in the early Nineties but it was...
Graf Zeppelin
6
photos
A company named Hawk released this model as an infuriatingly difficult-to-assemble and flimsy vacuform kit in the Seventies...but it was HUGE, 41" long, and a great subject. Long after the...
Refit Build
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photos
This record will document my attempt to do justice to Polar Lights gigantic 1/350 Star Trek Enterprise refit model kit released a couple of years ago.This ship's complicated paint job, high level of...
Fantastic Voyage Proteus
40
photos
This is the 5-foot fiberglas "hero" miniature built for the 1966 sci fi feature Fantastic Voyage. The ship was designed by Harper Goff, who designed the Nautilus for Disney's 20,000 Leagues...
4-foot Seaview
6
photos
This is one of the original miniatures (or more appropriately, props) from the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie and later TV series--it's mainly seen as a model in Admiral Nelson's office. Its...
Give me some props
11
photos
Various life-sized prop replicas, mostly from Star Trek--phasers, communicators, tricorders, and a few other sci fi weapons and gizmos that are fun to play with and show off.
Blockade Runner build
13
photos
For the most part this was easy to put together, considering that it weighs 9 pounds...
Blockade Runner
22
photos
This is the 27" Randy Cooper kit, finished over a succession of 105 degree weekends (120 in the garage). Why did it take almost 30 years to make a model of the first spaceship seen in Star Wars?
Tripod Build
30
photos
Bob Burns Basement
28
photos
Makeup Effects Guy, Collector of Antiquities and one time gorilla suit actor Bob Burns maintains an incredible collection of movie props and miniatures at his home in Burbank...
Drydock 2001
22
photos
When my pal Daren Dochterman was working on updating visual effects for the Director's Cut of Star Trek - The Motion Picture, he allowed me to spend some quality time with the U.S.S. Enterprise and...
Profiles in Fun
25
photos
These are a few of my favorite things--actual miniatures and props from some Irwin Allen productions and the 5-foot Proteus miniature from Fantastic Voyage. These were waiting to be sold at a...
The Garage
101
photos,
5
videos
Where I store all my models, toys, and spiders. Disturbing, really. You can actually date the objects by the amount of silt and cobwebs on them.
Millennium Falcon
5
photos
This is the Fine Scale 1/72 kit with 900 eye-straining parts...
The Office
24
photos
Toys that now clog my office...this really looks like a glimpse into the mind of a serial killer now...
Jawa Sandcrawler
9
photos
This is the last big scratchbuild I did before I became too lazy to scratchbuild. It's made of sheet plastic, tank parts and, ironically, engines from the MPC Imperial Walker kit. It has a cockpit,...
WOTW Tripod War Machine
11
photos
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