Scratchbuilt 1/72 FMX-4 Facetmobile -1993

From the archive (2007):

In 1993 a very strange –or familiar, if you think about it- sight in the sky puzzled more than one casual cloud-gazer.

The FMX-4 Facetmobile is a homebuilt aircraft created by Barnaby Wainfan, and its looks, as hinted before, resemble…a flying crushed cardboard box?...a misassembled tent, blown by the wind?...or…yes, you got it, a very famous "secret" (no more actually) plane that uses stealth technology, the same technology used by the crooks that steal from from people making millions and get rewarded by their corporate quarters for it . But this one reputedly flew before the other one was unveiled to the public.

In any case a difficult shape to forget, the Facetmobile was a temptation that posed as an innocent would-be model. Little I knew.

The images will tell you how I made it. Suffice to say that I had more than one accident with the superglue, because given the fact that the body was build with two shells of clear plastic, the use of normal styrene glue didn’t cause the desired effects.

After –seemingly- months of merciless bouts, the model emerged; not perfect, but perhaps good enough to bring a smile.

Hey, the original flew, and very well!