Revell Monogram Group Build!!!

jinithith2 wrote:

Ok, so I did some research just now and the two versions that are included in the RM kit, 17955, and 17978 (Rapid Rabit, named after the Playboy Bunny carried on its rudders most of its service) had nothing to do with drones. the 7978 bird was lost late July during a landing accident, but the right rudder of 7978 is being used as a left rudder for some other Blackbird. I did a search for D-21 drones, but the ones included in the kit might be dif. i need to check. so I'm halting everything going on with the drone and I'm starting the cockpit of the SR-71 now.

NO SR-71 ever carried the D-21 drone.  None of them had the hardware to mount, control or fuel the little beast.  Two A-12 single seat Blackbirds were modified on the original assembly line to be two seaters and were designated M-12 at first which was later changed to M-21.  They were tail numbers 06940 and 06941.   940 made several captive carry tests and then 941 was used for all four actual launches, including #4 where the drone had a mid-air collision with the mother plane a few seconds after launch.  Both drone and mother were destroyed.  Both pilot Bill Park and LSO Ray Torrick survived the breakup/ejection, but Ray drowned after landing in the Pacific Ocean.

The model drone itself shows the rear burner ring of a jet engine.  It should be a bell shaped housing like the rocket engine on missiles because the drone engine was a ram jet, not a turbine.  There is a display at Palmdale, California, a couple of miles from Lockheed's Plant 10 that has an A-12 #06924, an SR-71A #17973, a J-58 engine and a D-21 drone on it's service cart.  That type of display with the SR-71 and the drone sitting beside it would be accurate.  SR-71 #17976 is at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio, with a D-21 close to it.  M-21 #06940 is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle with a D-21B mounted on top.  BTW, the GT in front of the D-21 is for Ground Test vehicle.  This was only applicable after the drones were all retired after the March 20, 1971, last of 4 operational missions and used in various ground tests by USAF and NASA.

After the loss of the M-21/D-21 combination on July 30, 1966, all remaining D-21s were modified to D-21B status for launch from the B-52H.  The obvious external changes were the addition of mounting lugs on top of the vehicle and the addition of the two pitot tubes on the leading edges of the wings on either side of the air inlet.

Darwin, O.F.

wow thanks yardbird for the monster awesome response!!!

I started the cockpit of the SR today. painted it silver/white first, applied two coats of future, and I am waiting to apply the black toned down with a teeny bit of white. after that, I will hope for the best and I will start scraping away at the buttons revealing the white underneath. I really hope this works!

MortarMagnet wrote:

So, have we settled on which badge will be the badge?

smokinguns3 wrote:

Unfortunatly iam the odd ball i liked the badge i made so i went with it.

Well, I think I beat you there. I'm the only Krazy Kanuck in this GB, that I know of. So I picked the neutral one, that I liked the best. Sorry smokinguns3.

I will be posting some of my work tomorrow, after work, with a little write up.

I'm in.

1/48 F-15E strike Eagle. Whole mess of PE and resin peices. 

And maybe a cool display if I have time. 

let me say maybe. 

i have a plan in mind for later this year.  dont want to go too much into it but i will let you know for sure in about a month.  

joe 

Sounds like it's  going to be sweet if it gets onto the bench Joe cant wait to hear what it is.

Guys Jin said that we would pick which ever badge we liked on the 1st or 2nd page.

As of what im going to build Jin it's not going to be the F-106, or the P-61 my first trys at those were fails and the Pt-109 is a build me and my dad are going to build so it's probably not going to get done by 08. I'm thinkin of a different jet or WWII bird.

OK guys, here are the first progress pictures of my Six. Upper half of fusalege scribed but not quite finished as I still need to back over the lines on the front section and sand it down and wash out the lines. Aft section is finished. I'll also be posting these in the Aircraft forums.

Enjoy!

Air Master

Lookin' good Airmaster. Suddenly I've been seeing alot of 106's on the forums.  weird but cool.

Lookin good man, well shes paited and futured and now that i look at it i like the way it looks with out the any lines on it. Talk about stepin waaaaaay out of the box!

williamsfw28 wrote:

UM.....ok.   I was just wondering.  Adding panel lines back on a plane is not my strong point at this point in my model building career. Always looking to pick up some tips

sorry if I sounded harsh. I didn't intend to sorry!

MortarMagnet wrote:

So, have we settled on which badge will be the badge?

I thought I said we didn't decide upon a single badge and you could use any of the ones in the first two pages???

Gread progress guys!!!

AirMaster, how long did it take you to do that much?

SG, that SR is a beaut! can't wait for the finished model.

so here is my cockpit, all white/silvered up and futured. I used a metallic sharpie for this

it turns out that I thinned the paint too much, but this in turn, saved me from having to scrape off the extra from the dials!!! I'm really pleased with the results. the flash made the black look translucent, but in real life, its really opaque

I also scribed the front part of the BB, and I found that using the pointy end of a compass saves me a lot of time because I can just use the raised lines as a guide and not need to use tape or rulers.

keep em coming

jinithith2

I have decided on a model for this group build. I'm going to build mostly OOB except for a couple scratchbuilt parts on the landing gear and cockpit.

Jinithith2,

   No worries you didnt sound harsh at all. just a question nothing more or less. By the way I never thought of using the foil that way. Ive it in F1 motors but thats a nifty idea

Did i read that right its a 1/4 scale kit? If so wow thats gona be huge.

Well here she is all done  no panel lines white tires and the drone this i know is not an accurate sr-71 but i like it and it looks good. This my first of two builds for the GB the other is my 1/72 Gato, so here it is.

Jin,

I really couldnt give you an estimate of time I spent scribing since I really dont keep track. When I scribe I do just a little bit at a time. I work very slowly to make sure I get all the lines straight. I use a jewelers file technique that was passed to me by a member here and it works very well. I never rush to build my models. Just like to take my own sweet time on them, they turn out better this way.

Air Master  

smokinguns3 wrote:

Did i read that right its a 1/4 scale kit? If so wow thats gona be huge.

1/4" scale, which is basically quarter scale, or 1/48

Smokinguns3 That looks great a nice clean build.

I got a little done on my F-106 Interior painted grey and fuselage halves glued together. It might take awhile I'm also trying to finish my Eduard Sopwith Camel and my Monogram Sopwith Camel.

It is official, I'm an idiot!. I wanted to post pics tonight, I forget my camera at work. I come home to work on the Gato to find my grey paint is a huge gelatinous blob, thin it out and use my electric paint stirrer (my dremel, with a homemade thingie). The thing takes two hands to turn on. Paint jar spins covers desk, me and conning tower with grey paint. ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

hope you feel better tomorrow

jinithith2 wrote:

hope you feel better tomorrow

So do I