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  1. Well, it's been a while since I've put some time into the X-1, but after a long hiatus, I've finally put some more glue to plastic. So without further ado, here is some of the progress. I finished sanding and rescribing the panel lines, though I messed up on one half. You don't notice it unless you look at the kit from the bottom, so I may just leave it as is. I mounted my scratchbuilt exhaust in the tail with a combination of sticky putty, PVA glue and Tamiya thin cement. I was going to remove the sticky putty but it really helps to stabilize the exhaust in the fuselage so I left it in there. This kit is a tail-sitter, so I added a lot of led fishing weights behind the cockpit. The cockpit itself doesn't fit very well in the fuselage so there will be a small gap inside the hatch. It shouldn't be too noticeable, though, once the panel and canopy are installed. I glued the fuselage halves together with Tamiya thin cement. I'll have to fill a little bit of a gap that runs along the spine and belly, but it isn't too bad and should fill nicely. So there you have it, for now. Sorry that it has been so long for those of you who were following the build. Hopefully you won't have much of a wait for the rest of the build now. As always, thanks for looking!
  2. Well, I've finally had a little bit of time to put some work into Glennis. The exhaust section is dry fit, and it looks decent. I was a little worried that the pipes wouldn't be symmetrical, but just eye-balling it, it looks ok. I thinned down the skin around the port side of the exhaust and I'll be adding the vent pipe after everything is together. It's too small for me to try to put it on now. I also got some of the plumbing put into the wheel wells. I'm planning to add a few more little things, but you're not going to see it, and I have nothing to go by, so I'm just adding some stuff for the fun of it. I plan to either find some AM wheels or try to scratch some as the kit wheels are a bit sad. So not much, but it's progress. Thanks for checking in!
  3. Only a few little things, Nic. I've gotten the plumbing put together for in the main wheel wells, just need to get them put into the fuselage halves. I haven't had a whole lot of time the last week or two. I'm hoping that I can get some stuff done by this weekend.
  4. Yes, Mike, they were 90* with the bulkhead, at least from what I can see. If they're not, they are close enough for me. So I plan to stick some tube through there and have a support on the inside that will keep the tubes straight. I'm guessing that is either a vent or maybe a drain for the fuel? Not 100% sure on it, and none of my reference material says anything about it. So that's what we're gonna go with
  5. Ya, Kev, I was pretty disappointed as well. It don't look like they changed anything, with regard to the fit, of the tail. I actually did trace the inside of the fuselage halves. Then used a scriber and very slowly got a line started. Just did one half at a time and kept a little stock on the styrene and ground it to shape. Are you planning to display the motor, or did you just want to be able to have a good fit? I'm thinking that instead of casting the motor, I might cast the entire exhaust section once I get it built. There are some deep panel lines, here: that would be a good place to cut and replace that section. We'll see how it goes when I get that far. Thanks, Harv!
  6. Little bit of an update today. My casting supplies finally came so I started getting things ready for that. I dry fit the motor in the fuselage and found that, though they made some new pieces when they re-released the kit, the motor still doesn't fit at all. So I'm scratching a new section for the motor. I traced the insides of the fuselage halves onto some sheet styrene and cut it out. Some contouring with my dremel tool and the styrene fits pretty well. I used some sticky tack to hold the styrene in the fuselage while test fitting. These two pics show the size difference in the motor and the new piece. There was an asbestos covering on the exterior of the motor, so this will help to hide any gaps in the new piece and the fuselage. So that's where she sits now. I'll have to pick me up some brass tube for the motor, then hopefully I'll be able to finish building the motor exterior and get casting.
  7. Thanks, Peter! Haha, ya it's in there, Tim. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with it though. My instructions are a little different than the ones Kevin showed but they still call for the stick to be in a slot beside the seat. On another note, would anyone be interested in any of the parts that I'm building for this? I've wanted to get into casting, and I'll be casting a motor for Kevin, but would there be any interest for stuff I'm scratching since there are no AM kits, that I'm aware of, for the X-1?
  8. Ohh that is nice. I remember reading something like that not too long ago. I wish I would have thought about it before doing this. Might have to strip this and retry it. Or just order my other kit and swap panels. Hmm... Oh, my casting supplies will be on their way today so hopefully I'll have a motor for you in the next few weeks.
  9. I finally have a little bit of an update today. I did a little bit of the cockpit painting with Vallejo acrylics. I normally don't use acrylics, but I bought a cheap gravity-feed airbrush and figured I would try it out with something that is easy to clean up. Painted the panel flat black and the interior is medium green. From everything that I've read, the interior should have been interior green, but Vallejo's medium green matched the color photos that I have much better than interior green. By accident, I found a nice little trick for detailing the panel. While holding the panel with a pair of tweezers to test fit, some of the paint rubbed off the bezels of the panel. So instead of drybrushing, I rubbed the teeth of the tweezers, lightly, over all of the bezels. I think it looks a lot better and gave me more control of the effect. The kit decal for the panel looks terrible. I'll still be doing some detailing on the panel and a wash, but this is where it stands now. I began some scratch-building on the hatch. The kit hatch has no detail at all and it's way too thin. This is the only reference photo I have so I'm basing everything on it. I started by sanding the inside of the hatch smooth and added some sheet styrene to thicken the door. I bent some wire for the handles and cut some sheet styrene for the latching mechanism. This is the very first scratch-building that I have ever done and I'm really happy with how its turned out so far. The latch would look a lot better with some PE, but I have no idea how to make my own photoetch. I also don't have a lot of stock to work with so I gotta make do with what I have. Any tips would be very much appreciated though!
  10. That tail looks like someone got a shrink ray and miniaturized a real B-25. Just an unbelievable job so far!
  11. This is unbelievable, Brian! I can't wait to see this when it's finished. I've been taking notes to try this myself.
  12. That prop is beautiful Great work!
  13. Really nice work on those tanks!
  14. Your scratchbuilding in the 'pit is unbelievable. Great work so far. I'll happily be following this one
  15. If there is someone able to cast it, that would be awesome. The second release of the kit has been on Squadron and I believe I also saw it on Sprue Brothers. I'm not sure what other options you have there in the outback . I actually have the exact same plans with wanting to build a white NACA bird after this one. I'd like to do an X-1E also but I'm not sure if there is any conversion kits out there and I'm already going to be pushing the limits of my scratch building abilities with this one. After looking through the Smithsonian book, that rocket motor would make a really cool big scale scratchbuild in itself
  16. Hopefully I'll be able to help you on that front
  17. Well, what do you say we do some work on this beauty? I was sent a scanned copy of the drawings out of the Aerofax book and I've blown that up to scribe the wings. As I said before, I don't have any diagrams or anything of the bottom of the wings, so I'm just "winging" it and scribing the lines that are already on the wing bottoms. You can see in this picture that the flaps and ailerons are incorrectly molded. The flaps are about an 1/8th inch too long and the ailerons too short. The hinges are also out of position and too small. So after sanding off all of the raised lines, I drew new ones and scribed them. After scribing the lines, I puttied over the incorrect spots with Tamiya white putty. I was thinking about using super glue, but I was doing this at midnight and didn't feel like taking the time with it. Same process on the bottoms of the wings. Scribed and incorrect lines filled with putty. This pic was taken before I cut the lines for the hinges of the bottoms, so no putty on them at the time. The main wheels are also glued together but I'm really not liking the look of them. The wheels themselves look ok, but the rubber has the wrong tread for what was on 6062. Actually, there isn't any tread on them, just some lines that go long-ways around the tire. They should look like this: So I may have to see about getting some AM wheels if I can find something that matches. Anyway, tonight I plan on sanding the putty and cleaning up the wings, then getting the halves glued together.
  18. If you're looking for the kit, Nic, it has been readily available at Squadron. I bought this one a few weeks ago when they were on sale for 11$. They were still listed at 17$, I believe, the last time I looked. If that's still the price when I get paid next week, I'll be picking up another one.
  19. This thing just keeps getting better and better!
  20. Hello everyone! This is my first WIP build on the forum, though I've posted my latest 1/48th build in the Non-LSP forum. I've been dying to get started on my X-1 and finally got into it tonight. A little background on the kit...this is the second release of the Revell kit and the biggest upgrades are gray molding and a nicer rocket motor. There isn't much to the sprues after cutting the fuselage and wings off. I posted a topic a few weeks ago with some reference photos and full pics of the sprues out of the box. There is some slight warping in the wings, but I think they will be fine once the wing halves are glued together. The fit of the fuselage and wing/fuselage joints seems to be pretty good. There is a small gap at the wing root that will need filling, but it is small and some sheet styrene may do the job nicely. The fuselage halves are a little off at the front wheel well, but it also shouldn't be too much of a problem to fix. The one downfall that I've found is the complete lack of detail in the wheel wells. I'll be adding some plumbing to make it a little more interesting, but I have no reference photos to go follow. So I'll be making it up as I go along. Oh, and I'll be building this as Gen. Yeager's plane "Glamorous Glennis" (s/n 6062) after the sound barrier breaking flight. I'd actually prefer to do something a little more interesting, but I'm making this for my daughter that was born in February. She shares a birthday with Gen. Yeager and I want this to be something that she can hopefully connect with as she gets older. I may build a NACA version later on. Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy watching the build as much as I'll enjoy building her.
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