Small Scale Military Headquarters

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

Beautiful!

super nice !

I really hope they will produce a complete model because i don't have your talent !!!!!!

Well I tell you, I was going to pass on the X-1 but after seeing your beauty I have changed my mind.

Thanks for sharing. Great job !!

tmanthegreat 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

i have this plane on order is the testor's paint a spray can or air brush type paint

Looks great,tman.

Good job on the kit.

X-1 is an iconic plane,and happy to have it in 1/18.Even though it is a kit.

Very, very, very nice times a billion.

This post made me build my own X-1's back in March. I have the Mach-1 flight scheme (orange) and I made a second X-1 the 6063 ship in the white with the Black X evaluation / tracking markings on the sides. Very cool planes for the money. Easy to build.

tko211 wrote:This post made me build my own X-1's back in March. I have the Mach-1 flight scheme (orange) and I made a second X-1 the 6063 ship in the white with the Black X evaluation / tracking markings on the sides. Very cool planes for the money. Easy to build.

how about a couple pictures

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???

Where is the best place to get one of these planes?
Anybody got a spare kit they wish to trade or sell?
Thanks,
Razor

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???

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.

a little detail wireing added to the back of instrument panel

Man, after looking at the completed models in this thread I just may have to pick this up. Looks a lot nicer then what I thought it would.