Subject:
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North American X-15
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Scale:
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1/144
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Manufacturer:
| Dragon |
Price
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US$20,00 plus shipping
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Description
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Injected plastic model with waterslide decals.
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Comments
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This is a small article on the construction of Dragon's X15. Overall, it is a very nice kit. No filler was used during the construction. Also, the only extra part added was a base to display the finished model. Bellow you will see some pictures of the construction captioned with some comments about the quality of the kit
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The two fuselage parts fit together very well leaving a very fin panel line. |
Fuselage measures about 10cm in length. It is a small kit but quite large for 1/144 scale model. |
This is the ventral fin. I could not identify the rear part of this piece looking at pictures of the real aircraft |
I decided to place the speed brake on the open position as they would look like after landing. For the ventral fin, a left off the lower part of the fin that was discarded before touchdown. |
The rear fuselage part has a place to add some parts for a late period X-15 that must be closed to build the plane during the early part of it's service life. |
Here the dorsal fin, wings and tail were all assembled. Fit of all the parts is very good. |
I added some plastic to close holes that were supposed to be used on other versions of the plane. |
This is the two parts for the nose section. The left one is used with the nose probe seen on the early flights of the X15. |
You can see that dragon omitted this nose part on the instructions. I have to take some care searching for the sprues to find the small part that would fit the nose probe. |
I added the canopy, masked the windows and the kit was ready for painting |
Another view of the assembled model. |
I took a chance and decided to paint some panels in a lighter tone of XF-69. The areas were masked with Revell masking tape. |
It gets better over a less dark background. Now it is ready for the decals and final assembling. |
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