61-7974, Det. 1, 9th SRW, Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan, 1968. In 1968, 3 SR-71's are deployed to Kadena to fly over the hottest airspace in Asia, and 974 was one of them. "Ichi ban" (number 1) was added to "habu" snake, showing 974 was the best SR-71. Habu snakes were applied as mission marks too.
This kit does not have much to it in the way of parts, I am guessing that this is an Academy re-box of an old kit. It went together pretty good, and I know these aircraft are black from nose to tail but I took the liberty of using metalizers on the burners to give it a bit of colour other than said black
Painted with Tamiya Nato black and selected panels with Tamiya rubber black. Gunze Mr. metalizers on the burners, I used Flory grey wash but rubbed it right back, only wanting it to stick in panel lines. Finished off with Vallejo satin varnish. Thanks for looking
And for size comparison, a 1/72 Macchi next to it
