Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender
Mar 31, 2022 1:12:09 GMT -4
Post by DAVE "THE DUKE" ARMSTRONG on Mar 31, 2022 1:12:09 GMT -4
I generally use mostly rattle cans to paint my cars (more area to cover) but I use my airbrushes for the aircraft, all the camouflage.
DISCLAIMER
Rick had always wanted me to post some of my planes, but I just didn't- for one reason, most of them are old builds, and the pics I have were taken long ago, before I had a digital camera, and before I was posting things on the websites, and before I knew much about lighting and HOW to set up/take pics. They were really just for me. Lastly, we all know about the troubles of cleaning/dusting models. If there are wires on an aircraft, I generally leave them off, because here in the desert, they're just magic dust collectors, a headache I DON'T need. So, if you'll bear with me, I'll start posting a few old and not great pics.
This is the Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender, a U.S. fighter prototype proposed during WWll. There were three aircraft; the first, 78845, crashed soon after the first flight in 1943. 78846 is in a museum now, 78847 crashed during an air show in 1945. I used the serial numbers of the latter two planes on opposite sdes of the tail to represent both those two prototype planes.
DISCLAIMER
Rick had always wanted me to post some of my planes, but I just didn't- for one reason, most of them are old builds, and the pics I have were taken long ago, before I had a digital camera, and before I was posting things on the websites, and before I knew much about lighting and HOW to set up/take pics. They were really just for me. Lastly, we all know about the troubles of cleaning/dusting models. If there are wires on an aircraft, I generally leave them off, because here in the desert, they're just magic dust collectors, a headache I DON'T need. So, if you'll bear with me, I'll start posting a few old and not great pics.
This is the Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender, a U.S. fighter prototype proposed during WWll. There were three aircraft; the first, 78845, crashed soon after the first flight in 1943. 78846 is in a museum now, 78847 crashed during an air show in 1945. I used the serial numbers of the latter two planes on opposite sdes of the tail to represent both those two prototype planes.
