Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak - Groupbuild (completed)

Bernhard Schrock
Today Hanno visited my and we talked about our (small) groupbuild. I intend to show the model in flight and it feels great to build a model OOB without dozens of extra parts in the cockpit...🙂.

Edgars Bizūns
I smell another excellent model here..

Pavel Pinzhin
OOB? Ooooh, I wonder, how long it will take until the Engineer will take over the Hobbyist again 😄
Will watch with interest, like any other of your builds! 🙂

Bernhard Schrock
Edgars & Pavel: you are welcome🙂. Today I reserched and found out that this airplane was very clean. Nearly none of the protruding parts. One pitot probe in the nose and two on the wingtips. Probably two lights on the upper side of the wings. That was it. I could not do any more even if I wanted because the gear is up🙂🙂🙂🙂

Bernhard Schrock
Hanno has overtaken me twice and has already finished his D-558. That means I have to speed up🙂 Yesterday I pretended to be Dr. Frankenstein and created from different parts a pilot for the really tight cockpit. Fortunately I found in my spare box two arms with the correct length and position (meaning HOTAS).
The intake lip offers a problem which we call in German "Katze beißt sich in den Schwanz". You have to glue the two halves together for sanding and reshaping. But if you have done this you can't reach it. So; what to do? The easiest way in my opinion was gluing the lips together and cutting them off for preparing.

Soeren R.
Uhh another nice and great Bernhard project. Im in 🙂

Hanno Kleinecke
AHH, here we go.... ! Congrats for the successful surgery carried out on the pilot Bernhard. A Eugene F. May lookalike ! 🙂
Smart solution for the intake problem, again something I never thought of, and even if, probably wouldn't have dared to try .
So the Intake splitter on my bird is slightly out of position... 😳

Kerry COX
My beer and pop corn always tastes better when I watch you at work Bernhard.
Just pretend I'm not here. hehehehe. 🙂 (y(

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Great work !!! I'll follow since I also have this bird in my stash ....

Bernhard Schrock
Today I fitted the wings to the fuselage without trouble and use as my usual way only CA -glue🙂🙂 Only one last hurdle is left: the fitting on the windscreen🙂 I see a problem here because the fit is very bad🙁

Luca Martino
I love this plane, and I put the same kit a few months ago ...
Really well done, a great job !!

Burkhard D
Another immaculate job. 👍👍👍

Edgars Bizūns
Terrific! I cant find words to describe how good it is! As they say - everything brilliant is simple..

Bernhard Schrock
Two weeks ago I finished the Stranraer and today after airbrushing steel for aft fuselage and black for anti glare area I wondered: next model completed minus two pitot tubes after such a short building time??? Sometimes you have to use a granite-chisel and sometimes the model builds itself. In comparison to the original pictures the shine of the red is too low but I will leave it as it is because I'm afraid that the glossy paint will make the surface too monotonous and too much "like a toy".

Hanno Kleinecke
Beautiful colour on a cool Bird, flawless as usual !

Bernhard Schrock
Thank you mates!
Do you know the MarkSetter from Mr color? This is a mix of decal softener -fluid and decal glue and in my opinion the best invention. As last task I applied today the decals on the black anti glare area (quite matt) and did not have to do anything then wait for 10 minutes.

Christian Meyerhoff
Another beauty made by Mr. Schrock! Excellent as always 👍

Soeren R.
Wonderful work Bernhard!

Christian Ristits
Fantastic build!

Kerry COX
All the images posted of your build really didn't give me any idea of what was to come, but I need not have worried, as the last of them said it all, and again, as is your trade mark, more superb results on such an iconic aircraft.👍 👍 👍.

MRMLA
Looks very well, impatiently waiting for result! 👍

Bill Gilman
Excellent craftsmanship, as always! You are right to not make the red any more glossy than it is. Too shiny makes it look like a toy. You've got this one just right! 👍 👍 👍

Bernhard Schrock
Thank you Mates: I'm glad that you like the Skystreak🙂
Bill, I'm really glad that you have the same opinion about the shine. I think that the airplane became more matt in the course of the numerous test flights, despite of the initial polish. My old D-558-2 is even semi-gloss and I think that both planes will harmonises on the common display. Today I ordered plexiglas sheets and the rod and I think, next weekend I'm able to finish the project.

Hanno Kleinecke
Wow, what a highly professional looking display, Bernhard . Your Skyrocket is a real stunner too, outstanding !

Choppa Nutta
very nice display, was this a commission for NASA ?😉 😄

Mike Grant
That's an awesome display Bernhard 👍

Bill Gilman
The display really catches your eye. That's a great build of the old Revell Skyrocket, too. They look great together! 👍 👍 👍

MRMLA
Fantastic twins! 👍