For some reason I have long been fascinated by the pint-sized XF-85 Goblin. A tiny fighter designed to be a ‘parasite’ fighter that would launch and recover from a B-36 bomb bay in flight. The real airplane turned out to be a dud, but the absolutely adorable proportions of this little fighter is rather inspiring to me teasing me with the question of : just how small can a fighter be? So I started tinkering with how I might-could put together a mini fighter analogous to the Vietnam era of fighters. With the above starting idea, I first settled on wanting the design to at least seem like it could have a radar. This means the airplane could not be like the XF-85 with a nose intake and the pilot sort ‘riding’ the engine. I instead to start with something like the tiny and infamous BD-5J micro jet but slap the radar on the nose. Upscaling the BD-5Js engine (notionally) then expanding the size of the flying surfaces in conjunction with proper transonic inlets (not flush like BD-5s) pretty well settled the overall basic shape of HX-6 as you see it now. The last design decision was to figure out how to incorporate landing gear. Given the radar in the nose and the micro proportions, the typical modern jet fighter trike gear arrangement would not do….there is simple 0 room for any nose gear. Also no real room for any kind of landing gear under the pilot! So this immediately forced a taildragger arrangement, something not normally associated with missile toting jet fighters!

This model is roughly a 1/72 scale airplane, a tiny 3.5” long, designed around a posable Hogwerks 1” pilot figure and/or other 1” posable figures like from the Jazwares Micro Galaxy line. Mighty Mite also features magnetize swappable landing gear either representing gear up or down. 4 weapon pylons can also be added with magnets to hang small swappable weapons also included.
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 and sensor window: 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!