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Offline KiwiZac

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Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« on: January 16, 2017, 06:04:27 AM »
A while ago I scored an Arii 1/72 BD-5 kit for NZ$5, the catch being it was only the prop kit (the model normally builds two aircraft, one prop and one jet). No matter - I drilled out the prop shaft housing to make it more jet-y and added a couple of spare intakes and voila! But how to paint it? Hang on...how big are the decals in this 1/144 Bell X-1 kit?....







Here it is with the cabin floor of an Agusta A109:


And in the palm of my hand:


And in pride of place on The Shelf:


Built with Dragon 1/144 Bell X-1 decals. The paint is the Humbrol acrylic orange that came with the 1/32 Aston Martin DB-5 Starter Set. The lighting in our garage sucks for photos - it's much more orange in person! I'll try some natural light photos soon if I remember.
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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2017, 06:52:10 AM »
Love the orangest microjet :)
... and that reengined Ju-52 too ;)
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Offline kitnut617

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2017, 06:53:52 AM »
Nice one Zak  :)

but just to nit-pic, the jet BD-5 had shorter wings as you can see here below
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Offline apophenia

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2017, 07:00:21 AM »
Love your BD-5 Glamorous Glennis  :-*  Is it just me or do those longer-span wings give the jet Bede a bit of a UAV flavour?
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Offline Frank3k

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2017, 07:18:21 AM »
That's awesome! Although I doubt it will ever get close to Mach 1...
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Offline Kerick

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2017, 09:25:56 AM »
I can just see that real world at some air show! Brilliant!!
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Offline Tophe

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2017, 12:08:15 PM »
So cute... :-*
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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2017, 05:16:35 PM »
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2017, 09:13:20 PM »
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Offline KiwiZac

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2017, 03:13:44 AM »
 8) Thank you all!

I clicked about the wingspan as I was painting, but oh well. It still looks okay to me!

Frank - the speed may be lower but it'll look and feel pretty fast!
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Offline pigflyer

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2017, 09:16:54 PM »
Brilliant looking little blighter. Perhaps the perfect escape machine for a hero or super villian. Superb.  :))
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Offline perttime

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2017, 11:40:17 PM »
Quote from: pigflyer on January 20, 2017, 09:16:54 PM
Brilliant looking little blighter. Perhaps the perfect escape machine for a hero or super villian. Superb.  :))
Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8CHpyu8Uk
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Offline pigflyer

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2017, 07:12:43 PM »
The very same, of course, Bond would have been able to lose the missile sooner if he just had more orange.    :icon_swat:
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Offline KiwiZac

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2017, 07:19:34 AM »
 ;D
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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2017, 01:58:58 AM »
Cute as a button, Old Bean!

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Re: Glamorous Glennis - the world's orangest Microjet
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2017, 05:27:38 PM »
very nice

i think that shade is called 'presidential orange'  ;)
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