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Hey thanks!, I looked it up and it’s valued at $55. I think I’ll put it in the stash to impress people! LOL!
Max
1/82 is the scale listed for our info. [:)]
Max
It’s your very basic “Box Scale” kit. The first 1/72 scale kits I can remember were the little wooden solid scale models produced by Comet that sold for 10 cents at the local dime store. The first plastic model I built was a Revell USS Missouri I built in 1953 (I turned 9 that summer!)
(PS how cold is it out there this morning? It’s -8 degrees F here in Ottawa this AM (-18 F wind chill and 1" of snow on the ground)
Hey Quincy, Just -4 degrees here with the same 1’’ snow. This is the time of year that model building occurs, LOL. Ottawa Kansas?
Max
Roger ur last
Painted the ole’ X3 with Testors gloss white.
That is painted PART OF IT.
Painting white plastic model with white paint is a grind.[:)]
Did not paint where I was holding the model.
Seemed like a wise thing to do.
Does this forum have a ‘stick and tissue’ building section?
Painted another section of X3 today.
Used Testor’s Acrylic Cleaner instead of Testor’s Acrylic Thinner
to clean brush with.
It worked a little better.
I still do some stick and tissue kits for grins and giggles. Gillows has some fine kits. I went into a hobby shop some time ago and told them I wanted to buy some DOPE and they called the cops. Try finding the old Pactra DOPE.
If I recall correctly the X-3 was supposed to get us into the Mach 2 range, but never lived up to its expectations. Look at its wings and then look at an F-104. I would like to see a Bell X-5 in 1/48th scale, er Me 1011.
Anybody remember sonic booms, hiding under your desk at school as a way to survive an attomic bomb attack, lining up at school to get the polio vaccine and other prevention shots. The 50s were an intersting time.
If you get the early Lindberg kits they are usually the proto-type of the aircraft, e.g. the F-100, F-8 Crusader, the AD 4 Skyhawk, the F-104, etc. The kits were later modified to represent production versions. Lindberg was consistent with scale and not like others using “box” scale. Monogram was also scale consistent with 1/72, 1/48, and 1/32.
Back then you had to have an FCC license to fly Radio Control models AND part of the test to get the license was knowing Morse Code.
Cheers
Finished painting the top.
That’s hand brushing with Testor’s White Acrylic enamel.
Acrylic’s are pretty handy for casual model builders.
Going to paint the bottom next.
Going to try something new painting wheels.
Actually something very old.
Turning wheels on toothpick while you paint them
Hi. Did you paint the engine bay, if so what colour.
Thanks
Rich
Rich
You ought to paint it zinc chromate color.
It’s that yellow green tennis ball color.
Hope that helps.
Bob
Ranger J
‘I still do some stick and tissue kits for grins and giggles.’
I talked to a guy that had gotten pretty good at it when he was a kid.
He said he built them during summer vacation.
That made a whole lot of sense to me.
I never built one as a kid.
Thanks for the reply.
Rich