Grumman X-29

This is very old kit so in the beginning the decal sheet was taped on a window so the sun light could remove yellowness. 

Basic cockpit OOB. 

Cockpit and lead weights added to the fuselage half. DON'T DO THIS! CA-GLUE AND LEAD ARE BAD COMBINATION! 

 

Smoothing the center seam and very shallow panel lines needed to be scribed again. 

 

Air intakes installed. 

 

Wings added. 

The engine nozzle needed to be added to help the wing alignment. The nozzle is not glued yet, because it would be easier to paint separately. 

Adding putty to the intake seams. 

Dryfitting the nose. It is offset and the tube needs to be straighten. 

From the left: original kit seat, seat of early F-5 from Pavla models and Martin Baker Mk. GQ-7A from Aires. The kit seat has clearly taken inspiration from MB-seat. 

Finally got back to this one. I tried to add pipes and stuff into landing gear bay. 

Finally got ejection seat painted. Maybe this one was a bit pointless because I want to keep canopy closed. 

 

More pitot tubes and canopy in place. My original goal was to get this ready before Midsummer, but I didn't had time from planning my vacation. 

I finally decided to paint the white using white Tamiya fine surface primer spray. It spells awful and comes from a spray can, but it works like a miracle. 

Front landing gear modified to resemble more the real one. 

Painted antiglare area. 

Jet nozzle painted with acrylics before adding it to the fuselage. 

 

Time for the decals. I was afraid they would broke easily so I first tested the title decal on a sheet of styrene. It felt quite tough so I proceeded to apply the bottom stribes and canard stribes. 

Finally all decals applied! I'm waiting overnight for Micro Sol to evaporate and then I could finish this. 

It is finally ready! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really shameful mistake that white area in front of the cockpit under the clear part... 

Cockkpit front area fixed.