Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
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jeaton01
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Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
Here's the box art and contents. Not a real complicated kit, and I'm OK with that.
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Nice! I enjoyed building this one.
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Re: Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
Nice! A long nosed version. That looks more like a plane than the short nosed version. Looking forward to watching this!
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
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Re: Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
Im with you Mark on liking the look of the long nose version better also. 
Gonna enjoy watching this build!
Gonna enjoy watching this build!
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Re: Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
Nice! I’m doing the short nose version of the Skyrocket.
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Re: Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
Some progress. I painted the instrument panel with Model Master Black Chrome, and filled the dial faces with a dark grey, and then overcoated the faces with Alclad Gloss Clear. I can see I need to touch up some of the areas around the gauges in the pictures. It looked great while I was doing it, as usual. The panel will be very hard to see with a closed canopy.
There is no real alignment left and right for the fuselage on the wing. It looked easier to glue the nose on the wing first, as it at least had some guide rails on the wing. I think building the short nose version will be difficult because of this because the nose comes in three parts and has no fit to the leading edge of the wing. Good luck, Tom!.
There is no real alignment left and right for the fuselage on the wing. It looked easier to glue the nose on the wing first, as it at least had some guide rails on the wing. I think building the short nose version will be difficult because of this because the nose comes in three parts and has no fit to the leading edge of the wing. Good luck, Tom!.
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Re: Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
Looking good so far John. Just curious, but why use Black Chrome on the IP, instead of Flat Black or say Model Master Aircraft Black?
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BlackSheep214
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Re: Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
I painted mine Tamiya German Grey since the color call out is Black Grey.
“Who controls the skies, controls the fate of this Earth”
Author unknown- 352nd Fighter Group, Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney
“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn
Author unknown- 352nd Fighter Group, Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney
“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn
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Re: Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
Very cool! I agree that the long nose version looks better.
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Re: Minicraft 1/48 XF5F
Medicman71 wrote:Very cool! I agree that the long nose version looks better.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..