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Tamiya's X-1
Hey Gang,
I pulled this one from deep in the stash for a club group build. Been doing tough (very) short run and garage kits for so long, that the ease of putting together this Tamiya kit was almost scary! Hehe
Lots of detail to paint! I painted items lighter than called for, but still couldn't see much inside the 1/72 cockpit...
One version you could build was a cutaway version. Didn't want to do that but Tamiya had a ball bearing weight planned for inside the first cylinder. Plus I thought there was a possibility of seeing it thru the cockpit (you couldn't).
Vallejo paints are notoriously weak when coming to oranges and reds, so I actually bought the Tamiya Orange called for. Then I saw it was to be 8 part Orange, one part Transparent Red. No Tamiya red, but the Vallejo Transparent Red worked just fine.
Getting it all together and with all the pitot tubes etc... I decided to glue to to a base. I created the tarmac with a piece of plastic For Sale sign.
Thanks for looking.
I pulled this one from deep in the stash for a club group build. Been doing tough (very) short run and garage kits for so long, that the ease of putting together this Tamiya kit was almost scary! Hehe
Lots of detail to paint! I painted items lighter than called for, but still couldn't see much inside the 1/72 cockpit...
One version you could build was a cutaway version. Didn't want to do that but Tamiya had a ball bearing weight planned for inside the first cylinder. Plus I thought there was a possibility of seeing it thru the cockpit (you couldn't).
Vallejo paints are notoriously weak when coming to oranges and reds, so I actually bought the Tamiya Orange called for. Then I saw it was to be 8 part Orange, one part Transparent Red. No Tamiya red, but the Vallejo Transparent Red worked just fine.
Getting it all together and with all the pitot tubes etc... I decided to glue to to a base. I created the tarmac with a piece of plastic For Sale sign.
Thanks for looking.
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Re: Tamiya's X-1
Very nice build up! Love the color!
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Nice build.
Don't know much about planes, but it looks pretty.
Don't know much about planes, but it looks pretty.
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Thanks guys. Appreciate the kind words.
Those Germans who shall not be named that were big in the mid 30s to mid 40s had aircraft designers that were definitely on all sorts of hallucination pills with the stuff they came up with. A lot of those crazy designs never made it past prototype or even off the design board. Those are the crazy ones I build.
Not to put the X-1 in with those guys - X-1 is just a piece of aviation history.
Coming from a space and sci-fi frame of mind (even before I dove deep with figures) , I only really bother with the kind of aircraft that looks like it could easily be "spacey."
Those Germans who shall not be named that were big in the mid 30s to mid 40s had aircraft designers that were definitely on all sorts of hallucination pills with the stuff they came up with. A lot of those crazy designs never made it past prototype or even off the design board. Those are the crazy ones I build.
Not to put the X-1 in with those guys - X-1 is just a piece of aviation history.
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Re: Tamiya's X-1
That's lovely. Well done!
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Thanks!
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Now that's a build with The Right Stuff. Very nice. This is why I tend to stick to creatures -- all those super clean surfaces intimidate me.
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Thanks! I started with sci-fi and real space so it comes a bit easier.
But agreed. I loved to work on the organic shapes more than "cylinders" and "boxes."