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Monthly Archives: May 2010

John Lehtio Memorial Float Fly

Drive up to Sal Lake in Healdsburg this Memorial Day to witness some radio control float plane flying and to pay tribute to Wine Country Flyers member John Lehtio who passed away in March. John was an active member of the Wine Country Flyers and is best know as the water rescue man at [...]

By | May 29th, 2010|Liberty Flyers, WCFlyers|Comments Off on John Lehtio Memorial Float Fly

The Lost Joy of Building

A confluence of events resulted in this post; first was an article by Mitch Albom in the Sunday Press Democrat back on May 2nd, next was the advent of the American Graffiti Pinewood Derby to benefit local scouts, and last was the monthly model build day at HobbyTown last Saturday. All of these events propelled [...]

By | May 14th, 2010|community|Comments Off on The Lost Joy of Building

Social Modeling

Social media is all the rage with everyone pushing you to join Facebook, Twitter, and other such sites; but what about real social activity? Many hobbies involve frequent social gathering, railroad enthusiasts gather to run their trains, radio control flyers meet at the flying field, radio control drivers gather to race, and of course gamers [...]

By | May 7th, 2010|IPMS, WCModelers|Comments Off on Social Modeling

Race Day this Sunday

If you enjoy motor sports you should check out The Redwood Empire RC Ground Pounders race this Sunday, May 2nd. Where else can you see F1 cars, touring sedans, short course trucks, and more all racing in the same place on the same day? Of course these are 1/10 scale vehicles running on batteries or [...]

By | May 1st, 2010|RC Racing|Comments Off on Race Day this Sunday