Laravel calling model from controller? Is this the right approach?

I am trying to split some code and let model handle all database stuff, such as create, retrieve etc.

At the moment all of that code was in the controller and I quickly realized that code is very messy so instead I wanted to do something like this:

public function incompletedEntity(EntityRequestPartial $request)
{
    $partial_entity = EntityTrash::saveEntity();
}

And my model:

public static function saveEntity(Request $request)
    {
        $entity  = new EntityTrash();
        $entity->lat = $request->input('lat');
        $entity->lng = $request->input('lng');
        $entity->slug = $request->input('name');
        $user_id = Auth::id();
        $entity->name = $request->input('name');
        $entity->type = $request->input('type');
        $entity->email = $request->input('email');
        $entity->tags = $request->input('tags');
        $entity->slug = $user_id;
        $entity->building_name = $request->input('building_name');
        $entity->address = $request->input('address');
        $entity->town = $request->input('town');
        $entity->postcode = $request->input('postcode');
        $entity->telephone = $request->input('telephone');
        $entity->save();
    }

However, I cannot call that function because I am not passing an argument from the controller, what is the right approach for this? Should I do $request->input in controller and assign it to an array maybe? and deal with it in the controller?

via Chebli Mohamed