Glamorous Glennis

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I know its sometimes hard to get excited about off-the-shelf kits, but this is cool.

1:18 scale. Its BIG! Was about $35.
 
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Re: Glamorous Glynnis

love that plane too... almost thought you were gonna say your taking on the ww2 fighter of the same name..
 
Re: Glamorous Glynnis

that is awesome

I saw their catalog today
there's supposed to be a 1/18 scale GeeBee too
(their website is in dire need of updating though)
 
Yeah I've wanted a model of the GG for a long while, but the only versions I've come across were small. This thing feels almost "studio scale".

This thing is wonderfully large, and the styrene is heavy and robust. Plus, the build is as basic as you can get. If you forego the cockpit and wheel-well details, you basically have 10 or 12 parts:
-2 fuselage halves (vertical stabilizer is intrinsic to the fuse)
-4 main wing parts
-2 (or possibly 4) horizontal stabilizer parts
-Canopy
-Aerials/probes
 
I've got two of these beasties now. BIG model and even if it is basic, the exterior looks accurate compared with my X-1 references. Now I just have to decide how much stuff I am going to add to one of these (or both of them).
 
Eduard's 1/48 offering is also a very nice kit. Small, yes (~7" long), but very accurate and the detail is amazing, down to the photoetch Bell logo for the steering yoke. Here's my build of the kit. The nice thing about it being 1/48 scale is that it opens the possibility of also making the B-29 mothership to display with it.

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:cheers
Kubes
 
Awesome kit!! Love the X-1 (well actually I love all of the X-series planes) it was one of the first kits I built with my son (the old Revell 1/32 scale) . . . . it still hangs in his room and he is 20 now. :)


Ok, I just bought one too, lol
 
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Okay I have a question for you guys who are more schooled in the X-1 then I am. Both the Tamiya and Revell kits say the interior of the plane is gray in color, yet Eduard seems to recommend a green zinc chromate/interior green color. Any idea which is correct? I know Revell's kit came out at about the same time as the Aerofax Datagraph book on the X-1 written by Ben Guenther, but as I don't have that book in my stash, I can't glance at it for references.

Also, does anyone know what scale the X-1 models built for the Right Stuff were? Given the size of the Pegasus kit, it feels almost like it is "studio scale" in a sense. ;)

BTW, Eagles Talon also did a 1/48 X-1 in resin and it includes a set of resin bulkheads and decals to convert a Monogram B-29 into the mother ship. Don's Model Works apparently plans to reissue the kit soon (it was supposed to be out last summer) and that would be worth getting if a B-29 display is in your future. They currently show it as out of stock, so hopefully they plan to cast up some more. I have one (the original Eagles Talon offering) and considering it predates the Eduard offering, it is actually a pretty good kit IMHO.
 
That is freakin' gorgeous.

I have a 1/72 scale kit sitting in my closet... waiting for me to develop the skills to build it right. But now my sights have been set higher, lol.
 
The cockpit shot is nice, but the single stick clues its origins to probably be the X-1B at the Air Force Museum as it has a single stick rather then the Bell control yoke which to my knowledge 6062 had until the end of its career. Still, the Olive Drab coloring might be a clue.

I suppose I could try and find a copy of the John Wayne film "Jet Pilot" for reference as the "Soviet Parasite Fighter" he was testing at the end was 6062 on what I understand to be its last flight (supposedly flown by Chuck Yeager in the film, albeit only subsonic as it was to keep formation with the T-33 Yaks and the F-86 Migs that were around it). Considering how small the X-1's pit is, I'm surprised they managed to squeeze the Duke in for one of the closeups on the ramp.
 
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