HX-1 Goblin is a fictitious stealth technology demonstrator aircraft concept imagined to be an alternative to the legendary very real HAVE BLUE demonstrators. While the HAVE BLUE airplanes took a particular emphasis on stealth shaping, I envision Goblin as a competing design that from a team that may have held on more strongly to aerodynamic considerations while still attempting to employ faceted shaping. While HB would go with a highly swept tailless configuration sporting 2 sharply swept and inward canted stabilizers, my fictitious team would have opted for a semi-conventional tailed arrangement. For the inlets, I assumed if a team would need a tail for stability then they would also probably not be willing to take the bold step of putting a grid over the inlet like HB. And so, Goblin would be borne! While the HB’s predecessor, the F-117 would be nicknamed “wobbling goblin” HX-1 with its tail would theoretically be able to drop the wobblin and thus be just the Goblin!

This model is roughly a 1/72 scale airplane, 6.3” long, designed around a posable Hogwerks 1” pilot figure and/or other 1” posable figures like from the Jazwares Micro Galaxy line. Goblin also features a movable canopy as well as movable landing gear and their landing gear bay doors. To complete you will need: 1-A resin printer, try FDM at your risk 2-CA glue 3-1mm x 1mm magnets 4-0.52mm steel piano wire 5-For a clear canopy: clear resin + high gloss quick shine floor finish or other high gloss clear coat; the more it can self-level the clearer the finish can be! 6-I recommend wet sanding for all resin printing, less dust and can get real smooth finishes! 7-Misc small modeling hand tools such as xacto knife, sprue cutters, pin drill (hand or powered) 8-Lack of friends 9-A proclivity for airplanes, really an obsession. Probably an obsession for airplanes that encourages your loved ones to wonder if you should be diagnosed with autism, or really already have said neuro divergent tendencies towards flying machines. Aren’t airplanes cool? Seriously. Probably the coolest. You should stop reading this now and just start building one of these! Maybe even 2!