The Pegasus Bell X-1 in Beautiful 1:18 Scale
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The Pegasus Bell X-1 in Beautiful 1:18 Scale
Here is the newest addition to my 1:18th collection...
I have been working on this bit by bit since I started over the New Years holiday. The landing gear retract and I have put a figure in the cockpit. My "Chuck Yeager" figure is actually a 21c S1 midget P-51 pilot, as that was what would fit in the tiny cockpit the easiest. It is a bit inaccurate (one doesn't need a lifejacket flying over the desert) but works fine for filling up the space - and I even placed in part of a broken toothpick for the infamous broom handle Yeager used to seal the hatch on his historic flight
The kit was largely easy to assemble with getting the fuselage halves together being the most difficult part for me (had to take a mallet to it to get them to shut nicely). Painting was easy as the plane is solid international orange in color with a gray interior. I used Testors Acrylic International Orange for the exterior and Testors Acryl Gull Gray for the interior. I achieved even canopy framing by masking off the framing with
Tamiya masking tape.
While there are a number of small imperfections throughout, I am very pleased with my end result and have a new 1:18 plane to add to my collection
I have been working on this bit by bit since I started over the New Years holiday. The landing gear retract and I have put a figure in the cockpit. My "Chuck Yeager" figure is actually a 21c S1 midget P-51 pilot, as that was what would fit in the tiny cockpit the easiest. It is a bit inaccurate (one doesn't need a lifejacket flying over the desert) but works fine for filling up the space - and I even placed in part of a broken toothpick for the infamous broom handle Yeager used to seal the hatch on his historic flight
The kit was largely easy to assemble with getting the fuselage halves together being the most difficult part for me (had to take a mallet to it to get them to shut nicely). Painting was easy as the plane is solid international orange in color with a gray interior. I used Testors Acrylic International Orange for the exterior and Testors Acryl Gull Gray for the interior. I achieved even canopy framing by masking off the framing with
Tamiya masking tape.
While there are a number of small imperfections throughout, I am very pleased with my end result and have a new 1:18 plane to add to my collection
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Re: The Pegasus Bell X-1 in Beautiful 1:18 Scale
i have this plane on order is the testor's paint a spray can or air brush type painttmanthegreat wrote:Here is the newest addition to my 1:18th collection...
I have been working on this bit by bit since I started over the New Years holiday. The landing gear retract and I have put a figure in the cockpit. My "Chuck Yeager" figure is actually a 21c S1 midget P-51 pilot, as that was what would fit in the tiny cockpit the easiest. It is a bit inaccurate (one doesn't need a lifejacket flying over the desert) but works fine for filling up the space - and I even placed in part of a broken toothpick for the infamous broom handle Yeager used to seal the hatch on his historic flight
The kit was largely easy to assemble with getting the fuselage halves together being the most difficult part for me (had to take a mallet to it to get them to shut nicely). Painting was easy as the plane is solid international orange in color with a gray interior. I used Testors Acrylic International Orange for the exterior and Testors Acryl Gull Gray for the interior. I achieved even canopy framing by masking off the framing with
Tamiya masking tape.
While there are a number of small imperfections throughout, I am very pleased with my end result and have a new 1:18 plane to add to my collection
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Buy Tamyia spay paint called, "orange" it's code is TS-12. It's a perfect match to the X-1 if you prime it first with the Tamyia grey color primer. I have a replica nose art panel of the X-1 which was carfefully matched in color to the real X-1 at the Smithsonian by Gary Velasco. (this guy really knows his stuff) anyway- I looked at about 4-5 different orange color spray paints and found that the Tamyia orange TS-12 was dead on.gburch wrote:My kit is sitting opened but unbuilt because I was unable to find a source of rattle can orange of the right color. Anyone know of a source???