Friday, October 4, 2013

North American Aviation X-15 (part 1)

Secretly, this is the hush-hush 3D Model project I've been working on, The North American Aviation X-15.

I'm modelling the X-15 with the XLR-11 engine, X-15 with XLR-99 engine and the X-15A-2 (both in white and pink colour schemes. So far I have the XLR-11 variant complete and now working on the XLR-99 variant. Here is the X-15 (66670) with the XLR-11 engines.







I've added a basic hangar, so I can create rendered views with various pieces of equipment surrounding the X-15.




I've started on texturing the cockpit and whilst gathering information, I've found out there was very little space in there. This is the XLR-11 version of the cockpit.


Of course you'll need a B-52 to launch this manned missile:





Some preliminary work on the X-15A-2 (66671), including fuel tanks




2 comments:

Paper Kosmonaut said...

Very cool renderings, George. There are not so many people paying attention to the earlier X-15 appearances. They almost always solely focus on the A-2 version which, in my opinion is just a little too long and lacks all the sleek lines of the earlier versions because of those tanks and the incomplete tail. Also, great job on the BUFF!

Unknown said...

Thanks :) when I first started this project I was surprised to find out what North Ameripican Aviation did to the original airframes. Pity they never created the delta wing and the twin seat versions. ;)