Banging the wall ? Ok Chuck, have a go !

[corsaircorp]

Hello Dears,

This RFI is a little bit different, as this model has been the first finished in my third and present modeller's life.

I finished her years ago, around 10 years if I remember...

But I let her to my local club, so my little orange aeroplane as my daughter called her has toured lots of modeller conventions, aaaand suffer from it !!

I get her back in such a poor state,

Bent and battered Bell X-1

Broken UC, all the probes are broken or missing

So she deserved a refurbishment

I make yhis one because, I also like Charles E. Yeager and I have some of his aircrafts waiting on my Stash

Here she is, standing proudly again !!

The kit is the old Eduard profipack, with resin interior and photoetched parts, very complete kit and surely almost OOB, a rarity for me.

Painting has been made with a blending of Mr color Orange and Yellow.

To be continued

[corsaircorp]

Here I'm for some other photos

I've repaired the UC with a new metal axle

Probes has been remade with syringe needles and copper wire

The transparencies were not very good, a bit thick and shady

The adjustments were good, just a bit of putty here or there, considering that it was one of the first Eduard kits, it was pretty good !!

Far less good is my way of painting, lookin' at this one, I see that my painting skill has improved a bit !

 

[corsaircorp]

Ok Gents, I hope that you'll enjoy this one too

Don't know who will be the next RFI since the MiG has done some problems yesterday,

There still are 3 contenders.

Thanks for watching and I'm open to comments.

Have a very nice modelling week, will be back in a few days.

No , no not holydays but evening work.

Sincerely.

Corsaircorp

[Alpha Delta 210]

Great recovery! The "glamorous" lady deserved it!

[russ c]

Really nice X-1 there, great job and great save

[corsaircorp]

Thanks Russ, Thanks AD

It's always a pleasure
Sincerely.

Corsaircorp

[stevehnz]

Nice job on that Alain. Both 1st & 2nd times, you"ve taken a plane that I always thought looked boring & made it interesting.

Steve.

[Gerrardandrews]

very brilliant, in every way 😊

[corsaircorp]

Thanks Steve, Thanks Gerrard,

It was a pleasure, and a fellow modeller specialised in Figures has told me that the best way to highlight an color was by using the opposite color from the lght beam refraction...

In this case for orange it was purple, seemed to work well at least however I was very skeptical...

Monochrome aircrafts or tanks are also interesting, will try with my F3D-2, but I will use a pale grey instead of white, seem more appropriate IMHO

Thank for watching and for the kind words

Sincerely.

Corsaircorp

[corsaircorp]

I began to consider buying another one and make the white and orange one can be flashy too...

And then as a USN fan, a D-558 ???

Corsaircorp plastic addicted...