>> 1/48 XP-55 Ascender - Prototype / Weird Aircraft / Trainers

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Very nice Glenn.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Glenn,

Awesome build brother! I have the Ginter book if you need any help from that. One correction to the history you provided, the crash picture is of the first prototype. The third prototype crashed at Wright Field during a War Bond air show.

 

[parsifal]

looks nice so far

 

[Airframes]

Good start Glenn, and those resin parts look good.

 

[T Bolt]

Thanks Jim. The interior pictures I have are pre-restoration but I think there is enough there for my purposes as I will leave the canopy closed.
The resin is very nice Terry. It should look real good after a wash to bring out detail.

 

[T Bolt]

Added a few bits of copper wire (throttle lever, prop jettison lever and control column locking bar) and finished the detail painting and wash

on the interior parts

 

[fubar57]

Beauty

 

[Wurger]

 

[T Bolt]

Got a lot done last night

Assembled and installed the resin cockpit

Installed the resin wheel well inserts

Added plenty of nose weight

Assembled the fuselage halves

The cockpit fit wasn't great and I will have to add some shimming to the aft bulkhead

Assembled the 5 part wing

Test fitted the wing to the fuselage. looks like the joint here will need some work

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Looking the part now Glenn

 

[Airframes]

Good progress Glenn, and looking good.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far Glenn!

 

[Crimea_River]

Likin' it so far.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Very cool!

 

[Wayne Little]

Done good there Glenn.

 

[mikewint]

Very nice Glenn, going to be a very neat looking aircraft. Quite a "nose" weight pack

 

[T Bolt]

Quite a "nose" weight pack

There was no easy way to do a balance test so I wanted to make sure

 

[T Bolt]

Been doing a lot of work, all the fuselage seams smoothed out, the exausts painted and installed, the elevators prepped, the wing tip rudders installed and joints filled (what a pain that was) and I'm about to glue on the wings.
Unfortunately my desktop has forgotten how to connect with the Internet and I only have my phone to get here for the time being so no pictures. The PC is going into the shop today to have that and other issues worked on, I'm still taking progress pictures and will post them all when able.