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  1. Well, I had a sort of schedule in mind for what I was going to build next, but something has occurred that blew all that out of the water! A couple of weeks ago, I saw a preview or review of this kit, and sat down immediately to order one from Ukraine, as I could hardly wait. It was scheduled to arrive around July 4th, but showed up unexpectedly yesterday. Wow! Talk about fast shipment, from a war-torn country -- words can not express how amazed I was. Sometimes, it takes longer for me to get a package from Canada to Atlanta, Georgia USA. (NOT THE FAULT OF CANADA POST!). The US postal system seems to like sending parcels back and forth between New Jersey and New York, before banishing them to south Georgia, before they can figure it all out. I say this as a US postal service retiree, so i feel justified in saying that "the old grey mare ain't what she used to be"... but then, what is? Anyway, here's what they sent me in a nice sturdy mailing box. The kit box was un-assembled and included: The kit includes 16 pages of illustrated instructions, plus a paint/decal guide for the two aircraft built: and a BUNCH of parts, including a PE fret, and actual nose glazing: For references, I shall be using one book, one magazine article, some photos grabbed decades ago from a great old movie, I think called "Towards The Unknown", as well as some pictures grabbed here and there on-line: By the way, and sadly for those desiring such, the decal sheet in the kit does NOT include the markings for the fictional Gilbert XF-120, which would have been a heck of a huge fighter -- image the Thundbirds markings for these! Now, it's not like I haven't tried building a model of the XB-51 before. Decades ago, (before being burned out on modeling), I began an old Execuform "Nostalgia On Wings" 1/72 scale scale vacuform offering, and then a while later, the Anigrand version, both of which ended up on the Shelf of Doom. While they both had their problems, the major problem was me.,.. Below, a comparison of the fuselages from each kit. Top to bottom, the Execuform kit, with a few embellishments, the the Anigrand, followed by both halves of the Mir kit: As you can see, they are all pretty close. A while back there was a build claiming that the Anigrand kit was way to short, and had to be lengthened and fattened to shape up. I decided to measure this kit, to the best of my capability, and I think that I have found out what the problem was. Below is is a picture of this process: When determining the length of an aircraft, it is important to know whether it will fit, whether it be into a hangar, onto a hangar deck or elevator, or what have you. Sometimes, you have to contend with a nose boom or the like. In this case it will be from the tip of the nose cap or glazing, to the rear tips of the horizontal stabilizer, NOT the rear of the fuselage! In my process above, the parts are just taped together, and the Horizontal tips rest against a box, and the forward position is marked just ahead of the fuselage tip, as I did not attach the nose cap/glazing to the fuselage. The standard length given for the XB-51 is 85 feet and 1 inch (85'-1"). My crude assembly measures out to be 84'-6", or about 7 scale inches short, call it a slightly fat 2mm in real life. There may be that much slack in my tape job or whatever! Anyway, I don't think that I have another 20 years or so to wait for another "more accurate" kit to show up, so by golly, I'm gonna finish this one! Stay tuned, Ed PS: If anyone would like to make an offer on either the Anigrand or Execuform kit, started but complete, PM me, or they'll end up on E-Bay.
  2. My next effort will be the RS Models XP-79B, mostly because I don't yet have it in the collection, but also, until now, I wasn't certain how to build it with a few added things I wanted to do. I was also happy to find a kit review of the model over on Modeling Madness, by Scott Van Aken HERE This helped alert me to some possible problems, but didn't supply all the answers. So, here I go again, with something that I HOPE I know how to do! Of course, the nickname "Flying Ram" is totally inaccurate. Despite the legend that it was re-enforced to ram through enemy bomber formations, it was actually designed to carry 4 .50-caliber machine guns to do the dirty work. Besides, being made almost entirely of magnesium, only a scratch or two wrong and the aircraft would have become a flying bonfire. That was actually it's fate, the single prototype having crashed just 14 minutes into it's initial flight, when the aircraft began uncontrollably rolling to it's right, and the pilot bailed out. Unfortunately, the aircraft struck the pilot and he was unable to open his parachute. He died and the aircraft burned to a very small pile of ash on the desert floor. For some odd reason, the U.S. Army lost interest in the aircraft, and the project was cancelled... The kit: The kit consists of 31 fairly small parts, and a decal sheet, apparently including some "what-if" markings for a British aircraft. The drawing instructions, for me at least, were not crystal clear: Above left, right out of the box, I thought that part #30 (the cockpit rear bulkhead was supposed to go where part #12, actually goes, behind the canopy opening on the upper fuselage half, which has two small padded lumps that eventually will be painted leather-colored. (To digress for a moment, I have thought long and hard, wondering about how the pilot was strapped to the airplane, and I could not imagine any harness that would allow him to lay prone, and still get out of the rig to bail out. Guess it's amazing that he at least got out of the aircraft.) Anyway, due to the usual fact that RS does not provide locating pins on it's models, the cockpit "tub" has to be assembled on it's bottom edge, free-standing. Part #31 (the instrument panel) will be glued across the front, as seen above right, after the tub has been glued into place, which is largely a matter of achieving the best fit you can. Next, I glued the connecting shaft for the control yoke to the yoke while it was attached to the sprue. This allowed me to get it pretty much perpendicular to the yoke: Above right, the shaft and yoke are glued into place, with the yoke just proud of the bottom canopy opening, after gluing the little "V"-shaped part to the floor. The two "X" 's show ejection pins that must be removed. It was after test fitting everything to this point, that I discovered that the instrument panel, part #31 set too far back to clear the yoke, so I sawed it off the model, glued on two small bits of scrap card. When the glue is dry, these will be sanded to shape, and serve to simply extend the length of the IP so that it fits further forward: Above right, I used fly-tying hackle pliers to hold one half of the two clear canopy parts, while they were glued together with G-S Hypo (watch) cement. The pliers don't hold the halves together, they just give me something to hold the tiny parts while applying the glue! They are very tiny, awkward parts! Next, the intakes were temporarily glued into place, to allow proper spacing for some tiny split shot that I glued in with white glue, to get as much weight forward of the main gear as possible, a tip provided by Scott in his review -- thanks: Next, the "belly pad" was added, along with two forearm pads, made up from scrap card, which RS did NOT provide. Then, everything was painted interior green, leather and black. The kit plans call for the yoke to be painted aluminum; it was not. And with that, I'll close for now. See you next time, Ed
  3. Not much to introduce. Super old X-3 kit first released, I think in 1959. I just wanted a simple weekend build, and to practice - yet another - white paint technique.
  4. Hello Britmodellers, having finished my stölth swedish Viggen pröject (psst, later), here some older stuff built 1993: My tiny little Mach Buster from my favourite brand Tamiya. Breaking a rib, later the Soundbarrier, Chuck Jäger Yaeger made the grade at Edwards AFB, CA, October 1947.... Cheers, Tom
  5. Hello mates, that´s my 1:72 model, built in 2001. It came in the big astronauts box with the NB-52, which i have still to make (shame on me). Except more details, it is quite OOB. Stencils are Verlinden. The faster, the hotter for a oldie speedfreak like me. This is the ultimate hot ! A classic Oldtimer, that made 4.520 mph!!!!! I hope you like it. Cheers!
  6. Before i make a short break to visit friends, here the Crimson Test Tube, a Navy jet in full polished color! 3 speed records but lost Mach 1 race against X-1. I love it. As in April/May 1947, before cockpit conversion. Cheers!
  7. This resine kit is the least worse under the worst. But, per aspera ad astra, i love this plane. William Holden in the movie Towards the Unknown lovingly touched her skin at Edwards AFB, happy guy...
  8. On a rare occasion I do finish a model. This time it came out like that: (some final adjustments:) and here we go: Ok, enough. Off to the scrapyard Full story can be found here http://www.kampfgruppe144.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3271. Short story: Panel lines (Matchbox-style) were filled, some brass bits from upcoming Shelf Oddity set added. And then there was miserable process of filling and sanding and filling and sanding and filling and sanding and filling and sanding and... which seemed to have no end. But finally I got to dust off my airbrush. Metal parts are AK Xtreme Metal (easy and foolproof). Kit decals turned out to be excellent (save for NACA tail band), panel lines were reinstated using pencil and shaky hand and this is it.
  9. Now I have finished my Flying Banana and Komet this is going to be my next project: This was first tooled in 1955 but I have the last reboxing from 1994: This explains why the decals look so nice: Here are the sprues: Note that the kit also includes a dinky little tractor. The clear parts look quite good: I won't be using the stand though. The instructions are a nostalgic reproduction of the originals: The mouldings helpfully (not) feature raised areas to aid decal placement: All the panel lines are raised of course so a big part of this build will be all the rescribing required. Considering the age of the tooling, the detail and quality of the mouldings look to be pretty good though. In line with Revell's practice at the time this is made to "box scale" which turns out to be 1/65th. It looks like russ c has build this but I don't think anyone has posted a WIP on this, so let's build.
  10. I´ve Googled all I can and I think I found every bit of web based info there is about the SAAB 91 Safir that was used by Nihon university for STOL research. Some of the most interesting sites out there are in Japanese and the Google translate is more confusing and amusing than really helpful so now I turn to Britmodeller and Hyperscale. Is there anybody out there with detailed info and hopefully high resolution pictures of this machine? the end result might be a 1 /48 scale conversion Thanks! /L
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