NEW X-37 B, 1/48th scale resin kit from Stratosphere

[Desert Dawn]

Hi everyone,

The new Stratosphere Models X-37 1/48th scale resin kit is now available !

And the real USAF X-37 spaceplane will be taking-off this evening from Cape Canaveral !

The webcast of the launch will be retransmitted here:

http://ulalaunch.com/site/default.shtml

http://web.archive.org/web/20051102215926/...050519-03-8.jpg

The model features a lot of tiny details (all the rivets are there).

Many more pictures are available at my website.

Stéphane
Stratosphere Models.
Website: http://www.picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels
Email: stratospheremodels@yahoo.fr

 

[mz]

mms://a228.l2973058227.c29730.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/228/29730/v0001/reflector:58227 This is the direct link to the video stream.

This is an old fashioned updated web page:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av012/status.html

 

[Desert Dawn]

SPECIAL OFFER for a LIMITED TIME ONLY !

Great news for all early bird customers, to anyone who order my NEW X-37 USAF 1/48th scale spaceplane kit WITHIN THE NEXT 7 DAYS, i will offer the same special as for my new D-21 drone kit: YOU WILL RECEIVE A SURPRISE FREE KIT with your purchase !!

(Offer void to dealers, distributors and kit companies, limit of one free kit per customer).

Stephane
Stratosphere Models,
''Always Offering You More For Less''
Website: http://www.picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels
email: stratospheremodels@yahoo.fr

 

[Desert Dawn]

Also take note that i now accept PAYPAL payments, please contact me first via email for details before making any payments.

Stephane.
Stratosphere Models.
Email: stratospheremodels@yahoo.fr
Website: Picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels

 

[Desert Dawn]

Re: NEW USAF X-37 B, 1/48th resin kit from Stratosphere

Well, guys this is it ! My MOST detailled model kit yet ! (In terms of external details and quantity of panel lines).

After months of pestering people at Nasa and anyone i could find, i finally got the data for the authentic fuselage underside and wings underside heat tiles pattern for the X-37 USAF spaceplane and i updated the kit ! (The X-37 is in mission in orbit as we speak, apparently flying above Afghanistan, among other places).

Stephane.
Stratosphere Models.
Email: stratospheremodels@yahoo.fr
Website: Picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels

 

[Apteryx]

It's a beautiful thing, Stephane!

I'm curious about the material you're carving the fuselage from. It seems translucent.

I look forward to seeing a painted example. Maybe, by that point, there will be pictures of the real item, back on the ground and reentry-toasted.

--Ian

 

[egettt]

Looks great! As detailed as a new Revell kit.

 

[Desert Dawn]

It's a beautiful thing, Stephane!

I'm curious about the material you're carving the fuselage from. It seems translucent.

I look forward to seeing a painted example. Maybe, by that point, there will be pictures of the real item, back on the ground and reentry-toasted.

--Ian

Hi Ian,

Thank you ! I used resin, it is a material that makes clean, beautiful panel lines when you scribe them, it makes it so much easier versus doing the same on styrene parts (i don`t use the 'claw' scribing tool, would not work too well on curved surfaces and for short scribed panel lines like this, so usually i use a compass point to scribe panel lines, much easier to do on the resin parts. And yes, the resin is transparent. But don't wait for a painted exemple, i am litterally swamped with work to do and projects to finish, and i usually (in normal time) don't even have the time to assemble and paint my own models (!) (or only exceptionally)(and i need an new airbrush, mine is broken, so, no painted models for a long time...). Actually, you might be the first one to paint one

Stephane.
Stratosphere Models.
Email: stratospheremodels@yahoo.fr
Website: Picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels