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Originally Posted by Paper Kosmonaut
Same here, David. Isn't it strange almost all X-15 model designers tend to lean to the stretched A2 instead of the much sleeker and proportionally more pleasing looking pre-stretch X-15? Now, not the red-white stripey pitot-tube one, but the nickel ball nose version. The full ventral tail.The square windows. Even in plastic, the bulk of the available models is the A2.
As far as edge glueing, I often use it, You just need to have to let the white glue dry a little more to get a good direct grip. It is very convenient, especially in places you cannot reach in to press down some rogue glue tabs.
I hope you are doing well, by the way.
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Thanks, PK. All is well in Kuwait, relatively speaking. And I hope you're doing well, too.
In my perfect world, some talented model designer would do 66670 and offer a choice of noses AND tail markings. Throughout their careers, the three X-15s -- particularly 66670 -- carried a variety of tail markings. Sometimes it carried the yellow NASA band and sometimes it didn't. The "NASA" would be in different fonts. Even the tail number would be applied in different fonts.
It seems like it would be relatively simple to offer a variety of X-15 flights with a few alternate parts. I'd love, for example, to model Neil Armstrong's first X-15 flight.