Good work so far Glenn!
1/48th X-1 and X-1B Beauty & the Beast
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- #22
T Bolt
Colonel
Thanks guys
X-1
I finished up the cockpit and added the seat harness made from wine bottle foil
The fuselage halves glued up
X-1
I finished up the cockpit and added the seat harness made from wine bottle foil
The fuselage halves glued up
Crimea_River
Marshal
Nice looking pit Glenn.
fubar57
General
Agreed
Nicely done so far Glenn!
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- #26
T Bolt
Colonel
X-1B
It ben several weeks since I've had time to do any work at either of these builds which as it turned out was a good thing as the modified areas of the dorsal fin had developed some sink holes that I dealt with in the first 2 pictures
After these areas were again sanded and polished I painted the belly hump white and the anti-glare panel black, then masked them and painted all but the outer wings Old Silver.
Good work so far Glenn!
fubar57
General
Nice
Crimea_River
Marshal
Good stuff Glenn.
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- #31
T Bolt
Colonel
X-1
I've been really busy this summer and haven't had much time to work on either of the X-1's, but I've been able to get a bit done over the last few days, finishing off the instrument panel and adding the back of the indicators and some plumbing. It was a real pain installing it like the plan said - after the fuselage was together. If I had to do it again I would do it before. I just dipped the canopy in Future and hope to install it tomorrow.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
And from here too !
Crimea_River
Marshal
Nice Glenn.
fubar57
General
Good to see you back at it
Lovely work so far Glenn!
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- #38
T Bolt
Colonel
X-1B
It's been a few years since I've done anything on this build, well, over 5 years actually, but since I will soon be spraying NMF on the twin Mustang in the group build I thought I would pull it out again and finish it up.
As I left the X-1B in post #26 I had filled, filed, and sanded down the sink areas on the spine and sprayed on the first shade of silver. well after that I put it aside for a while and when I came back to it several weeks (or months) later I found that the dreaded sink holes had re-appeared, got pissed off and threw it in back on the shelf of doom.
Well now after over 5 years I am confident (I hope) that the filled areas are finished sinking so I filed and sanded them smooth again and will re-paint the old silver when I'm spraying the F-82 hopefully this weekend or next week. In the meantime I will be cleaning up the landing gear parts (if I can find them)
