This kit was not officially on my shelf until a few years ago. During a periodic housecleaning, I rediscovered this kit, bought new and partially completed by a now adult and independent son. It had languished in the basement rafters for decades, which had not been kind. Still, here is a really cool prototype aircraft, and (re)building it would cost nothing. What had been completed was disassembled, cleaned, trimmed, painted or repainted, and assembled into the XB form, with its ill-fated contra-rotating props. Masked and sprayed with a Testors metalizer finish, I planned on using several masks and shades to make an interesting metallic finish. Then Testors stopped making the paints I had mastered, and it moved to my SOS...
Cutting my losses, I resolved to complete it as a basic OOB build.
Here are the Glamor shots:
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