Bell
X-1
and
EB-29
Mother Ship
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This would eventually be a vignette depicting the launching of the Bell
X-1 rocket plane from the B-29 "Mother Ship." Academy-Minicraft's 1/144
scale B-29A Superfortress kit is being converted to the carrier ship
with
a scratch-built X-1 in the same scale.
The project was started in 1999. The X-1 was completed one year later
and
can be seen HERE.
It has a pair of tiny ceramic magnets built into it to hold it in the
B-29
launch bay. (It works!) The B-29 has a completed launch bay and new
engine
exhausts were cast out of resin. I also received really nice
Alps-printed
decals for the Mother Ship nose art from Mark Fergel of PCModeler.com.
The decal was printed from the artwork
below.
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The B-29 may one day be finished. My motivation is that I already made
a really nice display stand for the pair, seen in the image below.
As is the case with many scratch-building projects, there is now a
molded
plastic kit of the X-1 in 1/144 scale. Also available is a cast-resin
conversion
kit for the B-29 Launch Bay and nose art in the same scale.
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This resin kit of the little robot from the 1972 film Silent Running
is by Posigrade Creations. This model was started in 2001 and is very
close
to completion. |
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This is Lindberg's kit of the sleek X-Plane, started in 2008, also
close
to being completed. Instead of using the kit's decal sheet, markings
were
created using basic drawing and word processing software and were
laser-printed
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The
Flying Sub
from
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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Moebius Models originally produced this 3 inch long kit to be boxed
with
their big Seaview and later released it as a stand-alone kit. This
model
needs just a little clean-up to be finished. |
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Polar Light's 11 inch Enterprise kit is being built into a 1/12
scale model of the Enterprise studio model. While my bigger AMT Enterprise
is a depiction of the fictional starship seen on TV, this would be a
replica of the 11 foot long model
which spent its less-than-5-year mission on a filming stage in
Hollywood.
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This
is Round2 Polar Lights' kit of the famed Bat-Car. It is currently and
slowly
being worked on.
And then
there's "The Pile." Many scale modelers have one. This is the
collection
of un-built model kits that just gets bigger every year. (My collection is
pretty small compared to some other modelers.) I think this
is a pretty complete list. I'll add others as they're found.
Airfix:
Aston
Martin
DB5, 1/35 scale
AMT (Polar Lights):
Saturn V Rocket and Apollo Spacecraft, 1/200 scale
Atomic City
EVA Pod 1/32 scale from 2001: A Space Odyssey (resin)
Dragon:
North American X-15,
1/144 scale
Fantastic Plastic (resin):
2001: Space
Station V, 1/2800,
1/2100 or 1/1400
scale from 2001: A Space Odyssey (Preview)
Starduster
(from the 1960s cartoon, Space Angel)
GEOmetric Designs/Max
Factory Custom Craft:
Cyclops from The 7th Voyage
of Sinbad (vinyl)
Government Issue
(Squadron):
Thermonuclear Rodeo from Dr. Strangelove (90mm resin figure)
Hasegawa:
F4U-1D Corsair, 1/72
scale
Heller:
Apollo-Soyuz, 1/100 scale
Horizon:
ED209 from Robocop
(vinyl)
Millennia Models
International (resin):
ALF TOS (Captain Gordon T. Shumway)
Mobius:
Batman
(Adam West), 1/8 scale
Space Clipper, 1/200
scale (2001: A Space Odyssey)
The
Mighty Kogar/Tracy the Gorilla (1/12 scale)
New Ware (resin):
Titan II - Gemini,
1/144 scale (resin)
RealSpace Models:
Soyuz Spacecraft,
1/72 scale (resin and photo-etched brass)
Round2/Polar Lights:
U.S.S.
Enterprise, 1/1000 scale (Star Trek:
The Motion
Picture)
U.S.S. Enterprise, 1/2500 scale (Star
Trek:
Discovery)
Skyhook Models "Pocket
Models" (resin):
Day the Earth Stood Still
Forbidden Planet "Mini C-57D"
Stargazer Models:
Aries
1B, 1/144 scale from 2001: A Space
Odyssey (resin)
Special Hobby:
Bell X-1A/C, 1/72
scale
Unknown (bagged
kits with no labels):
Batman and Robin (1/25 scale resin and white metal to go with the
Batmobile of your choice)
Romulan Bird of Prey
(1/1000 scale resin from Star Trek:
Enterprise)
Victoria Miniatures:
Nobody Expects the
Spanish Inquisition!, 28mm, 1/58 scale
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