XFV-1 Scratchbuilt. Like most baby boomers I was really taken with the pogo planes (the odd U.S. VTOL planes of the 1950's), so many years ago I made a model of the XFV-1 out of wood and the traditional scrounged-up ingredients. Then a few years ago somebody brought out a kit of the XFV-1 so I bought and built that one too and it's always sobering to see how much slicker and more professional the eastern-european injection molded kit is than my cheesy old scratchbuilt, which was cobbled up with a 3-view drawing from a magazine. These are 1/72 models, 6 feet on the real airplane equals one inch on the model so these are appearing somewhat larger than life on your computer screen and it magnifies all my errors, glue blobs, paint runs, cracked and missing decals and years of repairs and neglect.
