Completed Revell 1:72 SR-71 Blackbird

B_one fixer

Looks good Toshi, I just wrapped up the 1/48 sr-71 by testors. I will get it posted here soon.

 

Toshi

Toshi -

Mister Master Modeler you are, what a beautiful build. I built the same kit, used decals for #955.

Looks like the finish is perfect, as is the placement of the markings. Congratulations, I do believe you have blasted right past me in terms of ability. 

But then, you condensed twenty years of building experience in just a few months, with your FURIOUS build rate.

What's next?

Patrick

Looks good Toshi, I just wrapped up the 1/48 sr-71 by testors. I will get it posted here soon.

Here is what was done for Wednesday December 16, 2015.  I messed with the decals all day.  It was fun and a great sense of accomplishment.  Now for buttoning up and cleaning up the SR-71.

Toshi

Here is what I've done for this evening.  There's still another coat that I'll spray and then clean a few things up.  Please view the following.

Toshi

fox

When we went to California to visit my brother, he took us to Castle Air Museum in Atwater and the first plane I saw as we entered the parking lot was a Blackbird.  There are no markings or numbers on her.  All the planes there are chained off and are only opened up two days a year.  Right next to it is the Douglas VC-9C that was in the Presidential Fleet.  Great place but would be a lot better if you could go aboard and check them out.

Jim  

 

Toshi

kenjitak

Check out Habu on the web and you'll find a bunch of references to the small, highly poisonous snake found in Okinawa, where a number of SR-71's were stationed. Habu.org has a lot of info and pictures of the plane.

"When the A-12s (and later the SR-71s) were first flown to their new remote base at Kadena AFB in Okinawa, the local people thought that this strange and somewhat wicked-looking airplane was shaped like the habu snake.  They started calling it the habu airplane, and later just habu.  Crews who flew the airplane were also called Habu, and the name came to be recognized with the blackbird program and even incorporated into the insignia worn by the crews on their uniforms. ", from habu.org.

There are a number of planes that have images of the snake on them and there a lot of images and lore about the plane on various websites, its worth a google search.

Ken

 

 

Toshi

CN Spots

I was on Google Earth one day looking at sat images of the aircraft disposal and storage facility and actually say a couple of those drones sitting out behind a shed or something.  Hopefully they end up in a museum and not a 12 pack.

 

Toshi 

BrandonK

I got to see one in the Wright Patterson AF Museum in OH and none of my photos came out. Too dark. We had one land at night at my base during a heavy rain, low ceiling night. The flightliine when black, it taxied, refueled and took off again. I got to sit on the flightline and watch the whole thing. Awesome sight to see that take off at night.  He went full afterburner and about 100 feet or so off the deck he went full nose up and disappeared into the clouds. We could here it roar for the longest time. Seemed like 30 minutes. I will never forget that.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDRUru9KZU

 

Toshi

When we went to California to visit my brother, he took us to Castle Air Museum in Atwater and the first plane I saw as we entered the parking lot was a Blackbird.  There are no markings or numbers on her.  All the planes there are chained off and are only opened up two days a year.  Right next to it is the Douglas VC-9C that was in the Presidential Fleet.  Great place but would be a lot better if you could go aboard and check them out.

Jim  

Check out Habu on the web and you'll find a bunch of references to the small, highly poisonous snake found in Okinawa, where a number of SR-71's were stationed. Habu.org has a lot of info and pictures of the plane.

"When the A-12s (and later the SR-71s) were first flown to their new remote base at Kadena AFB in Okinawa, the local people thought that this strange and somewhat wicked-looking airplane was shaped like the habu snake.  They started calling it the habu airplane, and later just habu.  Crews who flew the airplane were also called Habu, and the name came to be recognized with the blackbird program and even incorporated into the insignia worn by the crews on their uniforms. ", from habu.org.

There are a number of planes that have images of the snake on them and there a lot of images and lore about the plane on various websites, its worth a google search.

Ken

I was on Google Earth one day looking at sat images of the aircraft disposal and storage facility and actually say a couple of those drones sitting out behind a shed or something.  Hopefully they end up in a museum and not a 12 pack.

I got to see one in the Wright Patterson AF Museum in OH and none of my photos came out. Too dark. We had one land at night at my base during a heavy rain, low ceiling night. The flightliine when black, it taxied, refueled and took off again. I got to sit on the flightline and watch the whole thing. Awesome sight to see that take off at night.  He went full afterburner and about 100 feet or so off the deck he went full nose up and disappeared into the clouds. We could here it roar for the longest time. Seemed like 30 minutes. I will never forget that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDRUru9KZU

tempestjohnny

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Toshi

goldhammer

I thought Boeing had the trainer, and am wrong......who has her? 

I'd forgotten for a moment that Evergreen has one too.  And our mining club president's daughter was in CAP when it got there and provided security with the rest of the unit and got a quick tour of it......got to get to one or the other one of these days.

 

Looking good so far Toshi.  Your build skills have improved immensely since you got started.

 

Toshi

leemitcheltree

Have fun, Toshi!  I wish I had taken more pics at Evergreen Aviation Museum in Oregon last year to post for you - Airframe 61-971 lives there......an awesome sight.
Have fun!  Enjoy the build, and post some pics for us all!

 

Toshi

I thought Boeing had the trainer, and am wrong......who has her? 

I'd forgotten for a moment that Evergreen has one too.  And our mining club president's daughter was in CAP when it got there and provided security with the rest of the unit and got a quick tour of it......got to get to one or the other one of these days.

Looking good so far Toshi.  Your build skills have improved immensely since you got started.

Have fun, Toshi!  I wish I had taken more pics at Evergreen Aviation Museum in Oregon last year to post for you - Airframe 61-971 lives there......an awesome sight.
Have fun!  Enjoy the build, and post some pics for us all!

goldhammer

Pretty amazing what Kelly and crew put together with pencil, paper, sliderules and very limited computing power.  What they had for computer then would probably fit on one chip with enough room left over for a 3rd generation smart phone today.  And had to make most of the tools and figure out how to work with the materials for her. 

A IBM PC-AT System 2 with an Intel 80386 and 8 megabytes of RAM from 1989 was more powerful than all of NASA's computer capacity for the Apollo missions to the Moon.

Pretty detailed cockpit you got there.  The SR-71 is such an iconic aircraft its a wonder I never built one in 32 years of model building. Oh wait, its about the parking space.  lol

I suppose when painting black youd need to do some postshading using a lightened, well, shade of black.

goldhammer

Nice work on the pits.  To show all that off you should brobably have the canopies open, closed will hide most of it.

 

Habu is also a desert wind/sandstorm type event that I think was more the source of that nickname.

 

Never got closer than about 50 feet to one and that was at an open house/air show at Beale. (T-birds were in F4-E's then, and saw them again at Shaw AFB in SC wen they had gone to F16's) She was roped off to that distance and cockpit glass covered along with FOD covers and exhaust covers on the engines.  Unless you were attached to the 9th, you got nowhere near their hangers.  We came on the flightline and turned right to get to the BUFF's.  It was easier for us to get on the nuke allert pad than it would have been to get into the 9th's area.

 

You won't want to weather much.  They got well maintained and touched up since Mach 3 would burn and discolor some paint.  They were never parked for very long outside unless they were somewhere else after a landing where they weren't stationed.  Otherwise they were always under cover in a hanger.

 

Toshi

infofrog

Toshi

If you like to get into some weathering . These here are bullet proof ..

Flory weathering

http://www.florymodels.co.uk/washes/

Enjoy the builds . Its all about the fun of building ..

Rick

 

Toshi

Nice work on the pits.  To show all that off you should brobably have the canopies open, closed will hide most of it.

Habu is also a desert wind/sandstorm type event that I think was more the source of that nickname.

Never got closer than about 50 feet to one and that was at an open house/air show at Beale. (T-birds were in F4-E's then, and saw them again at Shaw AFB in SC wen they had gone to F16's) She was roped off to that distance and cockpit glass covered along with FOD covers and exhaust covers on the engines.  Unless you were attached to the 9th, you got nowhere near their hangers.  We came on the flightline and turned right to get to the BUFF's.  It was easier for us to get on the nuke allert pad than it would have been to get into the 9th's area.

You won't want to weather much.  They got well maintained and touched up since Mach 3 would burn and discolor some paint.  They were never parked for very long outside unless they were somewhere else after a landing where they weren't stationed.  Otherwise they were always under cover in a hanger.

Toshi

If you like to get into some weathering . These here are bullet proof ..

Flory weathering

http://www.florymodels.co.uk/washes/

Enjoy the builds . Its all about the fun of building ..

Rick

It seems the only heavy multi colored painting is reserved for the cockpit.  It is very well detailed for a 1:72 kit.  See the photos below.

Toshi