X15 925 Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 Here is a small study of the D558 Skystreak and its different configurations. Jetmads decided to offer the D558 N ° 3 37972 with the canopy that opens from the rear. The first version of the D558 Skystreak having a bubble canopy that will only be used for 12 flights. The high-speed canopy opening initially from the front will be modified to open from the rear following the crash of N ° 2. Jetmads offers this canopy opening from the rear with 4 color scheme including an orange version. It is possible that the canopy of N ° 3 was modified to open from the rear while it was still orange in color but there are no photos of this version… I only found 3 photos of the canopy open from the back and all with a white D558 Skystreak, N ° 1 or N ° 3. Wanting to make an orange Skystreak, iconic color of speed racing with Chuck Yeager's Bell X1 and the first versions of the D558 Skystreak, I will modify the canopy for an opening from the front and to make the 1948 D558 Skystreak N ° 1 . This orange color will finally be abandoned in favor of white, finally much more visible in the blue sky of the Mojave desert !! Paul in Napier, themongoose, Out2gtcha and 8 others 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites
X15 925 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 (edited) Following the building of the D885 Skystreak from Jetmads, a pleasure to build and go really fast !! X15 Edited December 23, 2020 by X15 adameliclem, Lenny320, Landrotten Highlander and 15 others 18 Link to post Share on other sites
Out2gtcha 36,388 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Lovely work for sure! The fit overall of the kit appears to be very nice. How would you say the fit of the kit is overall? This would be one aspect of the Jet-Mads kits Id be very interested in. MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Zola25 23 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Very nice so far - Cannot wait for my Viggen to arrive. The details on this looks to be very nice indeed. MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MARU5137 16,116 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Now that's a super start. Stellar work Enjoying it already. Link to post Share on other sites
X15 925 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Out2gtcha said: Lovely work for sure! The fit overall of the kit appears to be very nice. How would you say the fit of the kit is overall? This would be one aspect of the Jet-Mads kits Id be very interested in. The fiting of the small 3D parts are ok, i begin to close the fuselage and the biggest resin parts need more work to fit correctly. I will need putty and sand it to have nice connection between this parts. But it's always the same with resin kits. X15 scvrobeson, Out2gtcha and Kagemusha 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites
X15 925 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 Beginning to close the fuselage !! X15 Starfighter, scvrobeson, IvanVasili and 10 others 13 Link to post Share on other sites
aircommando130 725 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 "Chasin that demon that lives out in the thin air".... Lookin great so far! Cheers...Ron Winnie 1 Link to post Share on other sites
X15 925 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 30 minutes ago, aircommando130 said: "Chasin that demon that lives out in the thin air".... Lookin great so far! Cheers...Ron Link to post Share on other sites
Marcin_Matejko 788 Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Link to post Share on other sites
scvrobeson 3,714 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Looks excellent so far! This is really encouraging for their Viggen project. That packaging is really spectacular, gotta say. Matt MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
X15 925 Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 Hi, Here is the continuation of the D558 Skystreak with the assembly of the fuselage and the wings.It took quite a bit of sanding and putty but it's pretty usual with a resin kit.This resin works well and is pleasant to work with.Can't wait to start painting !! Landrotten Highlander, Starfighter, blackbetty and 14 others 17 Link to post Share on other sites
airscale 11,982 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 wow, that has come together really well - you are clearly very talented! your detail painting is supercool and what an interesting aircraft how does the surface detail hold up, will it need rivetting/scribing after the prep work? Peter Link to post Share on other sites
X15 925 Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 23 hours ago, airscale said: wow, that has come together really well - you are clearly very talented! your detail painting is supercool and what an interesting aircraft how does the surface detail hold up, will it need rivetting/scribing after the prep work? Peter Peter, thanks for your comments, yes i needed to reviting ans rescribing because after prep work i sand a lot the fuselage and wings. Reviting is easy but scribing is a little more difficult in resin, more fragile than plastic so you need to do it carefully... X15 MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
X15 925 Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 Hi, Some details added on the D558. Out2gtcha, jgrease, Rocat and 20 others 23 Link to post Share on other sites
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