Moving the Prop

More progress for the music video for my new song “Combat” of the album “Bits”.

I rigged up a moving propeller for my 1/72 scale model airplane with the help of my sister Shandra. I cannibalized the motor and electronics from a tiny remote control car.

The electronics are too big to fit inside the plane. I’ll need to run some long wires through the body and down the mounting bracket to the electronics and battery and mount them on the camera rig I made a few days ago.

Here’s what it looks like:
(shot with no additional lighting on my HV20)

~5 mb

Double click the image to play:

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