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This is the Hasegawa kit, from the late 80's i think of an unusual NASA prototype. There wasn't many parts so most of the assembly was just a few hours, and hardly any filler at all.
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Hello all, While I've a few Grumman's to build and a Tomcat was really appealing, I never thought I would get it done in time so going for something a bit simpler. You can read more about this design here. Hasegawa Grumman X-29_box by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Hasegawa Grumman X-29_contents_1 by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Just a couple of small sprues, a clear sprue and the decals and that's it. Hasegawa Grumman X-29_contents_2 by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Going OOB on this and trying to get a clean, tidy build. And getting ready for the inevitable "aren't-the-wings-on-backwards" gags 🙄😂 Cheers and good luck with your builds! Dermot
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For your viewing pleasure here is my Hasegawa X-29 build. I built this because the theme for my club's July contest is Red, White & Blue and this is the only kit I had with that scheme. Hopefully there will be enough of each color to qualify. The kit was the usual Hasegawa excellent fit. However the decals were a bit of a nightmare. The kit is old and so were the decals. I had 2 boxes. In one the decals were badly yellowed, but in the other they looked pretty good. However they turned out to be kind of brittle and I was trying to position them they started breaking apart. So I ended up with non optimal positioning and a lot of breaks. Luckily I was able to get a pretty good color match. but touching up the fine lines was difficult and I had to make do with good enough rather then perfect. Anyway, here it is; Enjoy
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Hello everyone, this is the third of the three models I did since my last WIP. Actually, I had started this one long ago but because I was brush painting it with gloss acrylic white, it was taking ages to get the coats to cover the model properly. And having had great success with lacquer paints, I decided to remove the paint from it and re-paint with gloss lacquer. The drying time is amazing. Despite being gloss and giving it at times thick layers, I could rub it with a 600 grit in less than an hour. Later, though, I realized it needed more and more thinner and retarder for it to level better but there was only so much I could get into the little container. In the end, this little jet was subject to a lot of trial and error along the way and I had to eventually settle myself with a sub-standard paint job. The decals, being 30 years old were yellow so I'll leave this one model in a dark corner somewhere. I'm personally not thaaat satisfied with it and I don't really know why I'm uploading the RFI either...
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OK, a very late start for this one but I do have an excuse... It was an eBay bargain and I only got it in the post on Monday! I know it's 90% built and in primer but it's so well engineered that I had it together in under half an hour! This is truly an amazing kit! Barely any seams to deal with, it helped that the fuselage is split as upper and lower rather than left and right, and absolutely no need for filler. I had so much fun putting it together I really did forget to take some photos, I promise I'll get some as I paint it.
