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Fellow Modelers,
Attached are photos of my Revell 1/32 scale Bell X-1 finished this past weekend. The kit came out in 1998, but still holds up really well. Listed below are a few modifications I made:
>Wiring added to the cockpit instrument panel/control column/equipment bay
>Kit seat belts sanded off and masking tape straps/photo-etched buckles added
>Nose boom modified
>Brake lines added to main gear
>Fishing weight added to nose
>Cutting Edge decals were used and were outsitnding. In fact they were the reason I decided to build the kit.
>Floquil Reefer Orange was used for the exterior color
I hope you enjoy the photos.
Phillip1
She looks fantastic.
If i had one complaint, it would be that the original aircraft was polished.
Very shiny = very fast.
I remember reading in chuck yeagers autobiography something about it being polished like glass.
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Museum quality. Outstanding precision on your part.
Outstanding work!
Just one question?
Where's the broomstick?
Hans von Hammer Outstanding work! Just one question? Where's the broomstick?
If memory serves, this kit does come with a broomstick to place beside the seat. No, I am not kidding.
Excuse me.. Is that an Uzi?
Super job, very nice!
John
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Very very nice build. Nice to see something colourful.
Guys, your going to have to excuse my ignorance. Whats with the broomstick.
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If you've ever seen the movie "The Right Stuff", they showed the events about the broomstick and Yeager's Mach busting flight, slightly dramatized. The night before the flight he was injured horseback riding. In order to lock the access hatch shut, his flight engineer improvised a lever from a broomstick to use so he could apply the necessary force to lock the hatch shut in spite of his injury. The movie portrays that particular event with some great humor. Great film BTW.
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U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
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Thanks Stik, that clears that up. No, not seen that movie.
Thanks for the compliments. Actually the part representing the boomstick is in the cockpit, you just cannot see it in the posted photos.
Bish Thanks Stik, that clears that up. No, not seen that movie.
Watch it sometime. One of the few Academy Award winning movies that is truly entertaining on many levels. Mainly historically accurate- while all the events portrayed in the film did happen, some were not quite as portrayed in the movie. Unabashedly manly and American in its tone, it is a great look at a time "long" but not so long ago.
Hi Philip
I hv recently bought the Bell X-1 kit that you reviewed in Nov 2011. Unfortunately the pictures that u attached of your finished model are no longer there. I would really love to see them to give me some ideas for my own model. I assume you still have the photos and wonder wether u would re-post them,
Regards
Bill
Bill,
I removed the photos because the "free" photobucket account I use is limited in memory and I post threads on the models I build on a regular basis. What specific images were you wanting to to see? If you send me your e-mail address I could send a few to you.
Thanks
On the record breaking flight the "chase" plane was piloted by a guy named Bob Hoover. Also of note is the establishment just off the base run by A note worthy aviator named Poncho Barnes. She operated a bar and restraunt as well as a (purported) house of ill repute where the pilots and crews from Edwards AFB hung out. The base was later named for test pilot Glenn Edwards who was killed in a test flight of a flying wing.
Thats a great looking model of a very historic aircraft.
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