Tamiya Bell X-1

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June 13, 2017
Contents of bag 1. Sprue A and a stand.
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June 13, 2017
Sprue A. Fuselage parts.
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June 13, 2017
Contents of bag 2. Sprue B and decals.
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June 13, 2017
Decals are nice, crisp.
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June 13, 2017
Sprue B in grey. Hardly any flash (and parts this will be a quicky)
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June 13, 2017
Bag 3. Sprue B in clear plastic for a see through model. And a weight to prevent tail sitting.
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June 13, 2017
Glued some tanks and bits to the fuselage. As I won't do a see through, no painting is required.
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June 18, 2017
Highlighted some details in the pit with a wash and some brushwork.
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June 18, 2017
Closed the fuselage. There is already a small step too be seen along the seam. 🙁
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June 18, 2017
Some sanding to be done. There clearly is a step on the top and bottom of the fuselage
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June 22, 2017
Sanding, sanding and more sanding. In the end I just filled the gap with CA glue and started sanding with 250 grit paper.
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June 22, 2017
And it worked. Tidied everything up with 600 paper, 3600/6000/8000/12000 cloth
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June 22, 2017
I think it worked out well. Glued the wings with CA as well, in an attempt to prevent the need for filler.
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June 23, 2017
Glued the piece above the canopy. Needs sanding of course. Comenced masking of said canopy. 1 row done, 3 to go
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June 23, 2017
Past the halfway mark
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June 23, 2017
Canopy masker. Not exactly Eduard standard, but its good enough with my skill level
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June 25, 2017
One 5 ml cup in my airbrush: started too dry, finished too weet on the tai.
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June 25, 2017
This is the primer used.
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July 25, 2017
Scribbles on a bit of plastic look okay
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July 25, 2017
Actual paint on plane doesn't
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August 13, 2017
Orange it is
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August 13, 2017
Orange it is
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August 13, 2017
Orange it is
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August 13, 2017
Orange it is
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August 13, 2017
Orange it is
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August 14, 2017
Painted the pitot tubes gun metal
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August 14, 2017
Painted the brakes gun metal grey
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August 15, 2017
Port side decalling done.
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August 22, 2017
Starboard as well.
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August 22, 2017
Glued the right canopy. Masking was a *****, result quite satisfactory
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August 22, 2017
Tail is a bit lopsided
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August 22, 2017
Looks okay though
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August 27, 2017
Added a wash.
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August 27, 2017
Added a wash.
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August 27, 2017
Cleaned the wash.
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August 27, 2017
Cleaned the wash.
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August 27, 2017
Cleaned the wash.
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August 27, 2017
Undercarriage & wheels glued. Unpainted spot on front wheel will be glued to base.

Kommentarer

2 13 June 2017, 18:30

Ekki
Watching.

13 June 2017, 18:42

Łukasz Gliński
This is what I keep mine for too 😄 Following of course

13 June 2017, 18:51

John Thomas
Nice work

19 June 2017, 12:17

Martin Oostrom
Thanks Lukasz & John.
Lode, that would be edition 10 Testpilots.Had to check in my collection8)

22 June 2017, 21:09

Clifford Keesler
Nice.

22 June 2017, 21:35

Martin Oostrom
I. Dont. Get. It.
I used one 5 ml cup of primer in my airbrush. It started out reasonable, turned too dry and finished too thin. It almost seems as if the paint is sinking from the carrier fluid. After a couple of minutes I het a whitish film on top of the paint in my cup. And this is during spraying. I'm sure I shook the bottle long enough.

25 June 2017, 14:15

Martin Oostrom
I still don't get it. Sanded the black primer smooth. Wanted to add white scribbles as a form of preshading. Used Mig's One shot primer white. Dilluted it with some acryllic thinner, also from Mig.
Test scribbles on a bit of plastic went fine. Then the airbrush clogged up, threw grainy bits of paint. I already lowered the recommended airpressure, dilluted the paint. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
I now guess that primers don't agree with my 0.2 nozzle.
This project looks jinxed 🙁

25 July 2017, 14:46

Martin Oostrom
Hi Lode, I hope you're wrong. My airbrush is less than a year old and not much used, I bought it new. The problems I have are with Mig's primers. I'll do some testing with my 0.4 needle and with other paints.
Thanks for thinking along!
Martin

25 July 2017, 20:06

Martin Oostrom
Painted the orange with my 0.4 needle. Went well.
For this bright colours, I'm not so sure Michael Phillips' blackbasing works. If you look at the canopy, you'll see its way more bright than the rest of the plane. I had to use much paint to get this bird orange. On the other hand, the blackbasing kept it from being too Orange.
What do you guys think?

13 August 2017, 15:14

Soeren R.
I must admit that its a little bit to dark in my opinion.
Here a pic of the Glamorous Glennis
airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/bell-x-1

Black basing is a nice technique - no question ask - but I think it doesnt work so well with "bright" colors like the orange of the X-1.
You can see this in Matts videos. It looks great, but it gets really dark.
Youtube Video

Mine will be white primer, yellow "base" coat, pre shading with a red brown and then the orange.

13 August 2017, 15:38

Martin Oostrom
Sören, I'd love to say you're wrong, but you're absolutely right. I guess I'll have to pretend mine is seen at night 😉

13 August 2017, 15:46

Soeren R.
😢 It still looks good Martin. The paint job is nicely done.

13 August 2017, 15:47

Soeren R.
Btw are you gonna to repaint the canopy,
because the struts of the canopy are painted in black😉

13 August 2017, 15:50

Martin Oostrom
No I won't. This is one of grey styrene. I've got the clear one separately. That bit I did think through.
But thabks for the advice. Appreciate it 👍

13 August 2017, 16:06

Martin Oostrom
Blackbasing didn't work as planned. Had to use so much orange paint, some panel lines seem flooded. Will have to see what a wash will do.

15 August 2017, 16:01

Martin Oostrom
Thank you Lode & James

15 August 2017, 20:09

Martin Oostrom
Decals on. Unmasked the canopy. To do: add undercarriage.
I'm doubting whether to give it a wash. Some panellines near the front are alnost flooded with orange. I don't feel like I could get a decent result. She Could look better, now its a whole lot of orange.
Need to sleep on it.

22 August 2017, 19:09

Spanjaard
looking nice
question, you use the aluminium foil to get the lines to be masked and use that to cut the mask? seems a good idea!

23 August 2017, 06:46

Martin Oostrom
Thanks Lode & Spanjaard.
The aluminum is used to 'lift' the lines. Then I taped some masking tape over the foil (beware of mirror images!). The I cut the masks. It's a bit fiddly with so many small windows on this scale, but this actually worked quite well.
It's a variation of Don's method: Youtube Video