I am the AMA: Steve Neill

I am the AMA: Steve Neill Visual and special effects creator for film and TV By Jay Smith | jays@modelaircraft.org As seen in the July 2022 issue of Model Aviation. JAY SMITH: How did you become involved in model aviation? STEVE NEILL: As a young child, I used to watch the sky and all things that fly. Birds, airplanes, and space launches—I was hooked on aviation from day one. I built plastic kits of World War II airplanes and made rubber-powered, stick-and-tissue aircraft and rockets. In 1980, I was working on movies, making creatures for sci-fi movies that…